Help my computer takes 4-5 mins to start up

Stephen7372 · 2 Apr 2006 at 20:38

yeah I have got a few progs that start up but it's a bit ridiculous.

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 20:39

get rid of them then?

LeperousDust · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:18

Have you not formatted that since you joined here

?

ns400r · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:19

A few ?

3 is a few, you have a shed load starting up and we can only see the ones that put an icon on the taskbar !

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:24

he has less in his task tray then me, tbh

Energize · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:25

I only have 2 things at startup.

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:28

good for you lol. i use my pc. that means display driver, anti virus, msn, sound card drivers, logitech software ect ect ect. i dont know why any emphasis is placed on the number of programs running in the task tray.

Its what you are runnign and what order they load that makes the difference. A good defrag with perfect disk and optimised boot with bootvis does wonders for any system.

Energize · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:51

james.miller said:
good for you lol. i use my pc. that means display driver, anti virus, msn, sound card drivers, logitech software ect ect ect. i dont know why any emphasis is placed on the number of programs running in the task tray.

Its what you are runnign and what order they load that makes the difference. A good defrag with perfect disk and optimised boot with bootvis does wonders for any system.

I use my pc, the drivers dont come up in the taskbar and my antivirus doesnt either, it starts up faster that way.

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:54

good for you. 3 quaters of a pass on the windows loading bar is fast enough for me

Haircut · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:15

You can use this
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

to see exactly what runs at startup if you are looking for stuff to remove.

ChroniC · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:46

Bootvis is useless on XP,

To original poster, do you mean when it loads from the xp screen or before it starts responding.

A broken cdrom sometimes causes huge lag on load.

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:47

did well for me, thanks

Neoni · 2 Apr 2006 at 23:27

anti virus

Newb!

barney · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:08

Depending on where is "stalls" it could be a number of things. If it is getting to your desktop and then taking ages it could be the amount of things you have starting up with windows.

If it slows down on the welcome to windows bit then there is probably some other fault (could be a drive, corrupt file, bad block on the Hdd or a million other things). Check the event viewer to see if there are any errors there. Also remove any disks from the cd drives. I had a problem with one of my old pc's that windows would just stop trying to load if there was a CD in the drive and wouldnt continue until i removed it.

bledd · 3 Apr 2006 at 18:57

ChroniC said:
Bootvis is useless on XP

no its not, but it does perform tasks that Windows performs itself every couple of days unless the services needed are deleted or disabled

just go through add/remove programs, and take off anything you don't recognise

also, disable system restore, that'll slow you down a lot.

if you disable antivirus scanning when you're uninstalling will speed that process up for you...

try using Windows Defender by Microsoft, will look for spyware etc.

G-MAN2004 · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:52

bledd. said:
just go through add/remove programs, and take off anything you don't recognise

Isn't that a tad stupid considering there is a lot of stuff from Microsoft on there and some people might not recognise that it's from microsoft? I mean if i deleted all the stuff i don't recognise then my PC probably wouldn't work at all.

ChroniC · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:59

bledd. said:
no its not, but it does perform tasks that Windows performs itself every couple of days unless the services needed are deleted or disabled

Yeah thats what i ment i just thought it was common knowledge so i didnt elaborate.

decmatt · 3 Apr 2006 at 21:33

Energize said:
I use my pc, the drivers dont come up in the taskbar and my antivirus doesnt either, it starts up faster that way.

nwiz.exe boots with me for startup, so this doesnt need to be run?

ChroniC · 3 Apr 2006 at 22:19

Solac said:
nwiz.exe boots with me for startup, so this doesnt need to be run?

no its a useless program that run in taskbar to allow u to get to the graphic controls quicker, rather than right click and go to properties ect ect.

markysparky · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:39

Run msconfig.exe and disable all start up items not absolutely essential (you can always use this program to re enable them anyway). If your pc boots up faster then you know that it is your startup programs slowing things down