Slow Boot

[John R]

I have MS XP Home Edition with Zone Alarm and Avast Anti-virus. Until Zone
Alarm updates (about 3.5 minutes from start) and then only after Avast
updates ( 5 to 7 minutes from start) does the system respond normally. I
have deleted the temp files, added memory and have plenty of disk space. Is
there a memory allocation that I could make to speed the boot?

 

[John John]

What do you mean by "Zone Alarm" and "Avast updates"? How fast does the
computer boot when these two items are disabled?

John

 

[bojimbo26]

What do you mean by "Zone Alarm" and "Avast updates"? How fast does the
computer boot when these two items are disabled?

John

Sounds as if you`ve got ZA and Avast doing boot scans , go into
respective preferences and cancel boot scans .