My system is slow starting up an even slower shuting
down. Does anyone out there have any solutions to my
problems?
Update and use virus protection regularly.
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Defragment your hard drive regularly.
Set up your hard drive with multiple partitions, and separate your
system and data files. Allocate your paging file with a fixed size, and
separate it from the data files.
Be aware of what process run on your system. Get Process Explorer
(free) from <
http://www.sysinternals.com/>, that will show you all the
processes running, how much cpu and memory each takes up, and much more.
Also Startup Control Panel (free) from <
http://www.mlin.net/> will
show you exactly what processes are being automatically started.