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My XP PC takes a relatively long time before it gets fully booted. I there a
way to get a real time overview of all the programs that are being installed
during booting. This question is because I think that some specific start up
actions the too much time, and I want to know which ones. Thanks for any
advise.
 
My XP PC takes a relatively long time before it gets fully booted. I
there a way to get a real time overview of all the programs that are
being installed during booting. This question is because I think that
some specific start up actions the too much time, and I want to know
which ones. Thanks for any advise.
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Google "startup files"
 
if you can boot into safemode,
then you can disable the startups
for normal mode.

simply hold down the f8 key
soon after you reboot in order
for the diagnostics boot menu
to appear.

then select safemode.

in safemode, click on start>run>
msconfig

then under the startup tab uncheck/
disable the items that are enabled.

then under the services tab "hide"
all microsoft service and uncheck
those services that remain on the
listing.

then try to reboot windows normally
to see if logging into windows
has improved by your modifications.



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Navigate to:
"c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative
Tools\System Configuration.lnk"

Or run "msconfig"
 
Erdna said:
My XP PC takes a relatively long time before it gets fully booted. I there
a way to get a real time overview of all the programs that are being
installed during booting. This question is because I think that some
specific start up actions the too much time, and I want to know which
ones. Thanks for any advise.
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http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm - What loads at Startup?
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
http://www.blackviper.com
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

To manage your Startup:

Start>Run>msconfig [enter]

This brings up the System Configuration Utility. Look on the Startup tab and
find the probable culprit. Uncheck the box next to its name, Apply and OK
out. You don't need to restart immediately, but the next time you do you'll
get a dialog saying you've used the Utility. Just tick the box that says in
effect, "don't bother me about this again".

Important - Do not use the System Configuration Utility to stop processes.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
The free Autoruns program is very useful for managing your Startup -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

Malke
 
Erdna

To identify what loads when you boot use Autoruns (freeware) from
Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx

With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from
starting,or you can right click an item and then delete it. If you
uncheck you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer
approach than editing the Registry and better than using msconfig..
Another useful feature of the programme is that you can right click an
item and select Search Online to get information about the item
selected.

When booting an automatic virus scan can impact significantly on
performance. The extent varies according to the anti-virus software, the
availability of RAM and the CPU capacity.

Is your system error free?

Have a look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for
Errors and Warnings and post copies here. Don't post any more than 48
hours ago.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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My XP PC takes a relatively long time before it gets fully booted.
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How long, at least approximately, is "a relatively long time"?

I there a
way to get a real time overview of all the programs that are being installed
during booting.
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I assume that you mean "started," not installed. Programs don't
normally get installed during bootup.

This question is because I think that some specific start up
actions the too much time, and I want to know which ones. Thanks for any
advise.
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My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it
takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is
otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In
the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't
very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the
morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I
don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care.

However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what
programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them
from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start
automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not
just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped
that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run
line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to
start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these with google searches and asking about
specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
 
My XP PC takes a relatively long time before it gets fully booted. I there a
way to get a real time overview of all the programs that are being installed
during booting. This question is because I think that some specific startup
actions the too much time, and I want to know which ones. Thanks for any
advise.
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You need to first come up with an amount of time - in minutes and
seconds (milliseconds is possible) from the time the the ntldr file is
loaded until the login is finished processing. Then, you have
starting time (a benchmark).

After that, you analyze the process and determine things like:

What is loading I don't need.
What is loading I don't know if I need or not but I will figure it
out.
What is this process that takes so long.
What the heck is this thing.

Then you can use (perhaps) some of the tools listed to eliminate
things and run another cycle to see if your time is improved in your
favor or not. Repeat.

Performing such actions often yield subjective results - if someone
even thinks somebody did something to make their system boot faster,
they will often say - oh yes, it is much faster, I can really tell a
difference, I think it is better... But they have no measurement of
before and after, so is it really faster? Will it be slow again next
week when the "new" wears off?

Or, you could just start randomly turning things off these suspects,
culprits, maybes, probablys, might bes and could bes and see how it
goes not knowing what just happened and perhaps, with some unspecific
improvement, but still with no measurement.

I like to be able to - your boot time from here to here is now 90.8
seconds faster or 43% faster than when we started - here's what I did
and here are the before and after logs for proof. Let's make another
timing check in a week and see how we are doing.

Cash is good.
 
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