Comments on: Slow boot-up in win xp home edition

By: Featured Member: Rcmichelle - ITKE Community Blog

Featured Member: Rcmichelle - ITKE Community Blog — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:32:16 +0000

[...] Slow boot-up in Windows XP Home Edition [...]

By: chippy088

chippy088 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:50:25 +0000

All the answers given here are worth trying. The key thing to remember is that we are always playing catchup with those virus writers, so keep the AV and firewall updated daily.

I would suggest adding at least a 2 gig stick (if it will take it.) if you install the recommended security progs, as they will need at least 512mb for themselves. Then you need to think about the memory used by progs you will be running.

I also rely on the ccleaner utility. It can be configured to clean out all the temp files left over from installations, and it has a good registry checker. I set it to run and terminate when done.

It will clean up most things, and I run it on a daily basis, as I install and uninstall programs, to check them out. I was surprised the first time I ran the reg cleaner, there were so many incorrect/obsolete registry entries, left over by bad uninstallers not removing everything they had set up on installation.

By: rcmichelle

rcmichelle — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:06:44 +0000

SO sad, I want a program to solve my slow computer, now I’m trying tuneup360, waiting for the result.

By: timallard

timallard — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:33:13 +0000

This is usually from adware … in addition to those listed before microsoft now has a beta out that does a good job that’s free.

By: infosafety

infosafety — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:35:16 +0000

In addition to the above, it is essential to clean out the Windows and internet temporary files. A good product for doing this is Webroot Window Washer. If you set it to clear out all the tempory files you don’t need, you can expect it to clear out over .25 GB. I have seen five times that amount.

Good luck.

Craig Herberg

By: darkgudda

darkgudda — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:50:24 +0000

Good Replies- personally I use the antivirus Avast at http://www.avast.com. This is a great antivirus due to once you install it checks your system when it restarts. I had it do this recently when I installed it into my new Windows XP sp2 machine and it caught the sasser virus and terminated it.

I breezed through the other replies and if this has been stated before I apologized. Did you install sp2? If so then there is a known fact read it on about.com that the sasser virus gets attached on the download. It happened to me and my avast caught it.

Also has your HDD been scanned and defraged recently sometimes we can forget things like that.

Take care have a nice day.

By: binoodas1234

binoodas1234 — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 03:41:07 +0000

Thanks a lot Charlie for putting up this topic.

I used “bootvis” for the same which seems to be working the same way as you have said. But I don’t know what is the best way to use “Bootvis” or How can I get the max from “bootvis”. If you mean it for manual settings, then what are those? Any comments on this from anybody? Thanks

By: careid69

careid69 — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:29:31 +0000

the virus and spyware comments are good ones…

but there is a way to stop the OS from checking if there is new hardware every time it boots up….

i can’t think of it at the moment and i have to run but i know it’s a standarded setting you can look up.

that should save you about half of the start up time.

charlie

By: binoodas1234

binoodas1234 — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 03:04:23 +0000

I thank you all for your replies. This really helped me and I appreciate it. I wish you all a very happy and troublefree new year.

By: habiru

habiru — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:58:39 +0000

Ya, I deserve a big kick in the butt for forgetting about Panda Antivirus. Great product! In fact, if not for NOD32, Panda would be it. They have the absolute best customer service department in the world. They are the benchmark that all AV companies should be compared against in my opinion.