Slow Boot in XP?

Hairboi

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I have just recently formatted, however my windows drive is showing as the D:\ drive (it's a 150gb raptor X), and my storage drive is showing as C:\ (500gb hdd), i checked BIOS and it was booting from my 500gb hdd first, so i changed it to boot from the windows drive first, yet i'm still getting 3-4 minute load times to even get into windows, then 3 minutes later msn messenger and steam finally load, which on a recently formatted raptor shouldn't happen :\ (anyway i can change the raptor to C:\ drive without formatting again ? )
 
Have you installed SP3? if so, that might be the problem with the slow boot up time.

I discovered a horrible slow boot up with SP3, so reformatted again with SP2 instead.
 
same prob as me! though i getting bout 2 mins on a newly formatted raptor with so many tweaks to windows to speed it up its ridiculous! i wanna solution too! i used to get start up times of 45secs
 
Have you ever had any previous problems with the hard-drive?

Also, do a lot of programs launch on startup? Usually a lot of junk software utilities try to launch on startup. I've found that using MSCONFIG to edit the startup list to load only important things substantially decreases the loading time.

Most the time it's software like Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and all things like that which like to load on startup and hog the system.
 
also use the registry to get rid of those pesky programs that don't come up in msconfig, also cancel the services that you don't need DON'T DO THIS IN MSCONFIG use the services in the run command.

Any drive errors? set your pc to check drive errors next time you restart, i did this and it improved times a wee bit but not much for me, it might work for you
 
Technically I don't think you need any of the start-up items in MSconfig. Note which ones you start with, disable them all. If it boots notably quicker, start enabling the things you need.

If it doesn't then think about disabling hardware ports you don't need (on-board audio if you have a sound card, IDE drives if you are all SATA, that sort of thing). It is important to disable it at the hardware end though, in the BIOS.
 
melbourne720 said:
Technically I don't think you need any of the start-up items in MSconfig. Note which ones you start with, disable them all. If it boots notably quicker, start enabling the things you need.

If it doesn't then think about disabling hardware ports you don't need (on-board audio if you have a sound card, IDE drives if you are all SATA, that sort of thing). It is important to disable it at the hardware end though, in the BIOS.
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sorry to hijack this thread but i seeking answers! lol hope OP doesn't mind hehe i never leave hardware open that isnt being used, son this isn't a problem for me
 
You shouldn't really disable stuff in MSconfig or use 3rd party software imho!
Do it properly via Regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run
&
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run
 
Super_Sonic said:
You shouldn't really disable stuff in MSconfig or use 3rd party software imho!
Do it properly via Regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run
&
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Run
Click to expand...

It is easy to screw up the resgistry by using Regedit, especially if the user does not use it often, that is why the 3rd party utilities exist. IMHO.
 
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