I have a question about Things that slow down system bootup:

Whenever I restart my computer, it plays the little intro music and stops! All I have on the screen is my cursor and Windows will not load within a two minute period unless I hit Enter. I ran msconfig and unchecked every unwanted box, but this did nothing but cause a message to pop up saying I am running the computer at the wrong settings. Windows works fine except for the startup time. After a few trys I returned to this website and downloaded Visboot from Microsoft.com. After restarting and running the program, I noticed no difference. I am running a 850mHz Athlon, with 192 RAM on Windows XP. I have the same specs on a different computer and that one runs fine. I was wondering if their is a way to remove the items from the startup option when running mscofig? I tried putting the default startup settings on msconfig and that checked all the boxes on the starup. I dont know if this matters but I have this computer networked with one other and I have DSL internet (which doesnt start until I go to browse the web).

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Go to blackviper.com
There are programs in your Administration Tools/Services that dont need to be running in the background.
If you dont need the music go to your Sounds and Audio Devices and turn them off.
On Boot Viz, did you go to the Tracer Tab and click on it then go to Optimize System?
Another good site to tweak you system is - tweakxp.com
At last you're squeaking by with that 850/192 setup.
What about your video Card?
How many mbs is it?


On Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:02 pm, Adam Ant wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:

Whenever I restart my computer, it plays the
>little intro music and stops! All I have on the screen is my cursor and Windows will
>not load within a two minute period unless I hit Enter. I ran msconfig and unchecked
>every unwanted box, but this did nothing but cause a message to pop up saying I am
>running the computer at the wrong settings. Windows works fine except for the startup
>time. After a few trys I returned to this website and downloaded Visboot from Microsoft.com.
>After restarting and running the program, I noticed no difference. I am running a
>850mHz Athlon, with 192 RAM on Windows XP. I have the same specs on a different computer
>and that one runs fine. I was wondering if their is a way to remove the items from
>the startup option when running mscofig? I tried putting the default startup settings
>on msconfig and that checked all the boxes on the starup. I dont know if this matters
>but I have this computer networked with one other and I have DSL internet (which
>doesnt start until I go to browse the web).

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Try creating and new user profile....


On Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 6:07 pm, Blue wrote:
>
>Go to blackviper.com
There are programs in your Administration Tools/Services
>that dont need to be running in the background.
If you dont need the music go
>to your Sounds and Audio Devices and turn them off.
On Boot Viz, did you go to
>the Tracer Tab and click on it then go to Optimize System?
Another good site to
>tweak you system is - tweakxp.com
At last you're squeaking by with that 850/192
>setup.
What about your video Card?
How many mbs is it?
>
>
>
>

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All of the above, also check-out www.tweakxp.com for a lot of good tweaks and fixes for XP


On Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:02 pm, Adam Ant wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:

Whenever I restart my computer, it plays the
>little intro music and stops! All I have on the screen is my cursor and Windows will
>not load within a two minute period unless I hit Enter. I ran msconfig and unchecked
>every unwanted box, but this did nothing but cause a message to pop up saying I am
>running the computer at the wrong settings. Windows works fine except for the startup
>time. After a few trys I returned to this website and downloaded Visboot from Microsoft.com.
>After restarting and running the program, I noticed no difference. I am running a
>850mHz Athlon, with 192 RAM on Windows XP. I have the same specs on a different computer
>and that one runs fine. I was wondering if their is a way to remove the items from
>the startup option when running mscofig? I tried putting the default startup settings
>on msconfig and that checked all the boxes on the starup. I dont know if this matters
>but I have this computer networked with one other and I have DSL internet (which
>doesnt start until I go to browse the web).

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I originally posted this question and I recieved an answer that same day. The problem is all the steps the responses told me to take, I already took. I have done the optimizing with visboot, I tried disabling the sound, and I used msconfig (as I stated in the first post). I was wondering if thier is a way to get rid of the list in the msconfig menu? Because when I have the items unchecked, I get a message saying Im using the wrong settings. The message has an check box that says 'do not display this message again' but it still displays the message. I did improve the start up speed on my one computer using some other method (I had to save a file on my C: drive and delete something else) I found out how to do this from this website but forget where I found it.

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