Very long start up times

[Sitara Lal]

I am using WinXP Pro on my laptop; whenever I power on, it takes
excruciatingly long (5+ minutes) to boot up and be fully operational.

The hard-disk (38GB) is about 67% full.

Any suggestions as to how I could speed this up?

Thanks

 

[MAP]

I am using WinXP Pro on my laptop; whenever I power on, it takes
excruciatingly long (5+ minutes) to boot up and be fully operational.

The hard-disk (38GB) is about 67% full.

Any suggestions as to how I could speed this up?

Thanks

Disable the startup items you do not need at bootup.

 

[Vinod Chandramouli]

Sitara !

To disable the start up items, you can follow the steps in this
article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353

regards
Vinod Chandramouli
http://169254.blogspot.com

 

[Frank]

I am using WinXP Pro on my laptop; whenever I power on, it takes
excruciatingly long (5+ minutes) to boot up and be fully operational.

The hard-disk (38GB) is about 67% full.

Any suggestions as to how I could speed this up?

Thanks

I am not wanting to be snide or disrespectful.
Purchasing a newer laptop would be the ultimate answer.

 

[Dusthawk]

Two things I did greatly increased the speed of my Gateway Laptop boot up.
First, I doubled my RAM to 1 GIG. Second, go to Start menu, click run, type
in MSConfig. There go to BOOT.INI and on the bottom left side click no GUI
boot. The Black Windows XP screen with slider gets bypassed and it flies.

These two thingsa reduced my boot up from over 4 mins to a little over 1 min.

Hope this help.

Jeff

 

[MAP]

Two things I did greatly increased the speed of my Gateway Laptop
boot up. First, I doubled my RAM to 1 GIG. Second, go to Start menu,
click run, type in MSConfig. There go to BOOT.INI and on the bottom
left side click no GUI boot. The Black Windows XP screen with slider
gets bypassed and it flies.

These two thingsa reduced my boot up from over 4 mins to a little
over 1 min.

Hope this help.

Jeff

FYI
Disableing the GUI boot could get you into trouble.
Basically what that does is disables xp's native video drivers, if you
disable this AND down the road have problems with your video card drivers
you won't have any screen at all to see what is wrong or to troubleshoot
with.