Windows XP Home

[Dean]

12:16 PM 3/11/2010//

What would make Windows XP Home,to take sooo long

to boot up,and take sooo long to shout down?

Once I'm on the net every thing is ok,it's just it takes sooo long to

do startup and shout down.

 

[Leonard Grey]

Could be a thousand different things. Are you collecting guesses? Here's

mine: malware.

---

Leonard Grey

Errare humanum est



Dean wrote:

> 12:16 PM 3/11/2010//

> What would make Windows XP Home,to take sooo long

> to boot up,and take sooo long to shout down?

> Once I'm on the net every thing is ok,it's just it takes sooo long to

> do startup and shout down.

>

>

>

>

>

>

 

[G. R. Woodring]

I'll add a couple more



(1) You have allowed programs to load themselves at start-up. Most work just as well

if they only load when you *want* to start the program. I have 4 items in the System

Tray: Network Connection, Volume Control, Anti-virus, Safely Remove Hardware (Memory

card reader). My system starts in just under 1 minute.



(2) Less likely but REALLY impacts shutdown: Windows swapfile is set to be cleared at

shutdown. With this setting my system will take almost 10 minutes to shutdown,

without it (and other tweaks) my system now shuts down in about 8 seconds.



Only 997 possibilities left :-D



--

G. R. Woodring



Date: 3/11/2010 2:55 PM, Author: Dean Wrote:

> 12:16 PM 3/11/2010//

> What would make Windows XP Home,to take sooo long

> to boot up,and take sooo long to shout down?

> Once I'm on the net every thing is ok,it's just it takes sooo long to

> do startup and shout down.

>

>

 

[Jeff Strickland]

"G. R. Woodring" wrote in message

news:%23q0Y$YWwKHA.5812@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> I'll add a couple more

>

> (1) You have allowed programs to load themselves at start-up. Most work

> just as well if they only load when you *want* to start the program. I

> have 4 items in the System Tray: Network Connection, Volume Control,

> Anti-virus, Safely Remove Hardware (Memory card reader). My system starts

> in just under 1 minute.

>

> (2) Less likely but REALLY impacts shutdown: Windows swapfile is set to be

> cleared at shutdown. With this setting my system will take almost 10

> minutes to shutdown, without it (and other tweaks) my system now shuts

> down in about 8 seconds.

>

> Only 997 possibilities left :-D

>





And one of them is insufficient RAM.



My system boots and shuts down much faster now that I have 4G of RAM. Well,

I also replaced the motherboard when I installed the new RAM, so I'm not

sure what helped. But one can never be too rich or have too much RAM.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

How does your question pertain to Internet Explorer (and why are you

"shouting down" your computer)?



See...



Help! My computer is slow!

http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/help-my-computer-is-slow.html



Troubleshooting checklist for a slow computer

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic44694.html



What to do if your Computer is running slowly

http://www.malwareremoval.com/tutorials/runningslowly.php

--

WinXP-specific newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general



~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002





Dean wrote:

> 12:16 PM 3/11/2010//

> What would make Windows XP Home,to take sooo long

> to boot up,and take sooo long to shout down?

> Once I'm on the net every thing is ok,it's just it takes sooo long to

> do startup and shout down.