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October 25th, 2004, 09:07 PM
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|  Slow after start-up
Whenever I start my pc, and log onto windows, the computer wont respond to any programs I try to open (through the start menu, quick launch or desktop). It will start to load with the hourglass, then just stop. It will however open folders, such as my documents. After trying to open the different programs, and nothing happening I have to wait about 5 minutes, then everything that I tried to open opens all at once. I have yahoo and msn messenger, msn locks up till the 5 minutes is over, but yahoo works fine right through that time.
This has been happening for a while now, I’ve just been putting it down to AV software but i really dont know, it’s getting really annoying. Any ideas? | 
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October 25th, 2004, 10:58 PM
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Which OS?
How much of your CPU, RAM, and PageFile are being used? (Press ctrl+alt+del in Win XP to see this)
What are your system specs?
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October 26th, 2004, 08:07 AM
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XP home 
Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
256 MB RAM | |
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October 26th, 2004, 01:36 PM
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Try removing unnecessary programs from running on startup. This iwll dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes window to get up and running.
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October 26th, 2004, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Gilthanaz Try removing unnecessary programs from running on startup. This iwll dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes window to get up and running. | You can say that again....everyone with a prebuilt PC (dell, etc) should ALWAYS do this step if they want quicker load times. My office Dell was loaded with crap and it took a longer time to load than my home pc which is an XP2000+ and my office computer is a P4 3Ghz
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October 26th, 2004, 07:14 PM
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Yeah you have a grip of processes running! I doubt you need all of them at the same time too...
To disable some of the startup items go to start>run>TYPE: msconfig
then you can toy around with the services and startup tabs to see what you can turn off and on. | |
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October 26th, 2004, 07:32 PM
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Here's one that should help,
Go to Start > Programs > Start UP
now delete any of those icons from there. I'm guessing you might have Internet related programs there. They can really slow down your PC | |
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October 26th, 2004, 07:40 PM
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you can also use XPSmoker and TuneXP using the recommended tweaks in Smoker, and the documentation suggestions in tuneXP can make a big difference... | |
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