Home Vs Pro

[Guest]

I am using Windows XP Home. I find the computer starts up quite slowly. My another computer with similar specification using Windows XP Pro starts up much faster (only a half time). Is this normal?

 

[Nick Burns]

Home has less code to execute and thus faster. Pro more code and executes
slower on the same machine.
Check your startup folder to see what all you have coming up on boot up.

What are your spec's

I am using Windows XP Home. I find the computer starts up quite slowly. My

another computer with similar specification using Windows XP Pro starts up
much faster (only a half time). Is this normal?

 

[Guest]

Home starts up slower than Pr

Centrino 1.4
512 mb Ram

 

[Jim Macklin]

There could be a Trojan on the "slow" machine or just a
bloated startup list?
Standard actions, defrag, clear cache, cleanup the start
menu, close down processes, scan for viruses and ad/spyware.


| Home starts up slower than Pro
|
| Centrino 1.4
| 512 mb Ram

 

[Henry]

prob caus the other PC is a better box....with the toal lack of info you
provided...who really knows....

 

[Guest]

samsung
centrino 1.
512 m

ib
centrino 1.
512 m

all are new without install any new software (and are virus free
but when i start the two machine
the samsung starts up with 30 second but the ibm need 1.5 mi
i don't know if this is normal

 

[Jim Macklin]

There are differences in how the two companies setup similar
computers. The speed of the hard drive might be different,
see your specs on the two machines. IBM may have included a
lot more software that is starting and running as a process.

You can get SiSoft's Sandra or Bel Arc's Advisor and see
what software is installed. AIDA32 is also a very good
program for this too. All are free. AIDA32 development has
stopped but you ca download the latest and last version,
Google will find all of these for you.

There also could be other reasons, but I would guess that
different hard drive speeds and startup programs makes the
difference.


in message
| samsung
| centrino 1.4
| 512 mb
|
| ibm
| centrino 1.4
| 512 mb
|
| all are new without install any new software (and are
virus free)
| but when i start the two machines
| the samsung starts up with 30 second but the ibm need 1.5
min
| i don't know if this is normal

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I am using Windows XP Home. I find the computer starts up quite
slowly. My another computer with similar specification using Windows
XP Pro starts up much faster (only a half time). Is this

normal?


No. the difference is almost certainly what you have running in
the background on the two computers.