LAPTOP taking an age to boot

jesus_thats_gre

Howeya

My 3ghz P4 laptop takes about 40% longer to boot up than my mates laptop, he has the same spec. It has a 40 gig HD and has 512 mb of ram and is running XP Pro.

It is a clean install and the programs that begin on start up are set to the bare minimum..

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Third_Echelon

i think your mates laptop has a slightly better spec...

feylya

Nothing compared to your mates desktops!! Actually, try disabling hardware components. And get a program that shows you everything that's running.

OfflerCrocGod

I just mentioned this on another tread about 2 secs ago....this site here could help you make your machine run faster. It explains what all the diffrent services running on your computer do. Start -> Programs -> Admin Tools -> Services and look at all your services chances are you dont need 1/2 of them..... Just go through your list and stop the services you dont need see if that improves boot up time.

kaimera

if you have updated with all the XP critical patches, one of them actually chnages the windows memory managment and actually slows down the startup.


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jesus_thats_gre

I understand about the services running, but would they cause a prob during boot?

OfflerCrocGod

They are started Automatically at boot up therefore slowing down your boot time.

zAbbo

google > bootvis.exe

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kernel32.dll

Does teh laptop have the SpeedStep thing that steps down the speed of the CPU to a much lower speed than when it's plugged in?

This will affect the boot time considirably.

Also, is WIndows scannning your HDs during the boot? THis will also slow down the boot process, because it verifies the integrity of the file system.

You should have NTFS as the file system for a 40Gb HD, because it provides MUCH better performance.

Just a few things to check.

Hope this helps