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re: Solutions to ''Slow System Startup''
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 3:32 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rick
(1 messages posted)
You talk of seconds to get on the internet. It takes me 15 minutes from the time
I press the start button to the time I can get to the internet. I have dial-up with
Windows XP. I defrag at least once a month. Please help!
On Friday, January 3, 2003 at 1:51 pm, Ben wrote:
>
>This list is "Designed for Windows XP", although I didn't receive the logo.... :-)
>
>1. Defrag your hard drive. Use the built in XP defragmenter (dfrg.msc). It's the
>only one that properly optimizes your system's prefetching to speed up boot time.
>
>2. Go to Microsoft's website and download BootVis.exe. It will optimize your prefetching
>even further than the built in defragmenter. Use both to get the best results:
dfrg.msc
>first, then BootVis.exe->Tools menu->Optimize. Also, you can use it to benchmark
>your boot time before and after system tweaks and software installations.
>
>3. Go to Start->Run... and type or paste "Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks".
> This will start a built in optimization routine that runs in the System Idle Process
>and shows up as "rundll32.exe" in task manager. It normally runs automatically
every
>3 days. It will run for 15 mins to half an hour, so don't try to do anything too
>intensive while its running. If you get sick of it running, you should probably
>log off or restart to be safe, rather than killing the process.
>
>4. Delete anything that you don't need in the Start->Programs->Startup folder, and
>in the Registry under HKLM->Software->Microsoft->Windows->Run and HKCU->Software->Microsoft->Windows->Run.
>
>5. Go to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services or go to Start->Run...
>and type "services.msc" to display services running on your machine. About 1/3
should
>be automatic, 1/3 should be manual, and 1/3 should be disabled, IMHO. If you don't
>know which to change, search google for "XP services" and read one of the many webpages
>that describe each service.
>
>6. Use a partition manager to create a separate partition for your swap-file. Set
>its size to about 2.5 times the amount of physical RAM you have. You can do this
>by right-clicking my computer and selecting Properties->Advanced tab->Performance
>section->Settings button->Advanced tab again->Virtual Memory section->Change button.
> Whew! They don't make that one easy to get to. Just don't completely remove your
>swap file, cause your system might not boot after that, unless you have a lot of
>physical RAM.
>
>7. Repeat steps 1-3.
>
>Ideally, XP on a clean install should boot in about 12 seconds from the time that
>you see the XP logo to useable (can open a program). With all my device drivers
>and third-party utilities, the best I can acheive so far is 18 seconds on my Dell.
> Don't use Norton SpeedDisk!--It may slow your XP system boot time by about 6 seconds.
>
>I have messed around with this a lot, to say the least, and I plan to build some
>utilities to make it easier and give them away for free in the future. Wish I had
>a web address to post here, but I'll be around here in the future, so check back
>in this discussion forum if you are really interested, or look for my utilities
in
>the next few months on download.com in the Utilities section.
>
>Good luck,
>Ben
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