winxp home slow boot

[crazyal]

hi i am having trouble with my laptop, it takes about 30 seconds to
login from when you click on a user name,
it should not take this long because our older 1ghz athlon takes about
5 secs and thats with 256 mb of ram

I have all the latest updates, done defrag, disk cleanup, msconfig
ect...
and this is my computer specs:

acer aspire 3003WLMI
Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.80 GHZ)
1024mb of ram (1 gigabite)
60GB hard drive (i think its 5400rpm)
windows xp home (all the latest updates)

i would appreciat any help its driving me mad!!!

 

[crazyal]

PS, ive only used 10GB of the hard drive

 

[Rock]

hi i am having trouble with my laptop, it takes about 30 seconds to
login from when you click on a user name,
it should not take this long because our older 1ghz athlon takes about
5 secs and thats with 256 mb of ram

I have all the latest updates, done defrag, disk cleanup, msconfig
ect...
and this is my computer specs:

acer aspire 3003WLMI
Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.80 GHZ)
1024mb of ram (1 gigabite)
60GB hard drive (i think its 5400rpm)
windows xp home (all the latest updates)

i would appreciat any help its driving me mad!!!

Have you done normal maintenance such as a defrag, remove temporary files,
remove temporary internet files, do a disk clean up, etc? Here is a link
with quite a few tips for dealing with a slow computer.

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

For a slow login do some clean boot troubleshooting to see what's loading at
startup that's slowing things down.

Clean Boot Troubleshooting

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353

 

[Kevin Brunt]

My reply/criticism is shown in between the lines!!

Have you done normal maintenance such as a defrag, remove temporary files,
remove temporary internet files, do a disk clean up, etc? Here is a link
with quite a few tips for dealing with a slow computer.

I have yet to come across one person who has managed to speed up the
system by following these simple procedures!!! Have you Rock?

For a slow login do some clean boot troubleshooting to see what's loading at
startup that's slowing things down.

Clean Boot Troubleshooting

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353

Clean boot is a possible solution but windows as it is, invarably this
does not help either for old systems. The only way I have managed to
solve slow systems problems is by doing a clean re-install of OS but
also by making sure the boot drive is only 20GB in size.

hth

 

[Rock]

My reply/criticism is shown in between the lines!!



I have yet to come across one person who has managed to speed up the
system by following these simple procedures!!! Have you Rock?



Clean boot is a possible solution but windows as it is, invarably this
does not help either for old systems. The only way I have managed to
solve slow systems problems is by doing a clean re-install of OS but
also by making sure the boot drive is only 20GB in size.

hth

It depends on how long it's been since they have done any of this. Yes I
have.

 

[crazyal]

thanks for all the help i tried doing the less complicated stuff but
but as its new year i did a clean reinstall of xp thanks for all the
help though
PS happy new year!!!

 

[Rock]

thanks for all the help i tried doing the less complicated stuff but
but as its new year i did a clean reinstall of xp thanks for all the
help though
PS happy new year!!!

Oh my, that's a radical approach to clearing up a boot problem where it's
taking 30 seconds too long. Same to you on the new year.

 

[crazyal]

what i ment with the 30 seconds was that it was taking 30 seconds to
show the desktop

 

[R. McCarty]

A "Normal XP" boot cycle has the Flag Splash Screen, then the
Desktop background appears. From that point until icons/bars
are drawn is "NORMALLY" around 35-38 seconds, regardless
of the hardware specifications. It's driver initialization, Services
and other startup activities. I've timed this on numerous PCs and
it's almost a fixed value. Once Desktop items appear, you're at
point of machine specific startups ( AV, Firewall, Startups and
Watchdogs....)

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have yet to come across one person who has managed to speed up the
system by following these simple procedures!!!

I think it worked for me once when I was running Win95 ;->