Help me speed up my computer from startup

[michaels]

I would say it is easily a 3-4 minute process for everything to be loaded and my pc to normal. after that it runs fast. My specs are...
XP pro sp2
Epox mobo
P4 2.8 ghz
1 gig of 3200 ddr
Maxtor 160 gb 7200 rpm hd
ATI X800 pci-e

I have AVG free virus and it runs all the time and updates, so I don't think I have a virus. Any suggestions?

 

[henryay]

That would be REALLY hard to diagnose. Is there hard drive activity throughout the 3-4minutes? I would just go for a re-format if that is possible.

 

[michaels]

I did a fresh XP install a few weeks ago.

 

[Lemon law]

Looking at your specs---you have enough ram to load fast---and like you say--once loaded--you run fast---so it not a matter something on your system is crippled--like running a hard drive on PLO mode.

So I am guessing you have far too many programs on the load at boot list. Or your OS is failing to find some dll's at boot and stumbling there. A program like Bootvis might help. You also may have some real bloatware--but I don't think AVG is your problem---do you have zone alarm?---try taking various program off the start up list by using msconfig or programs like start cop. It just takes some playing around to find your bottlenecks.

 

[Heller]

start>run>msconfig>startup>uncheck all un-wanted startup apps.


😀

 

[azzameae]

What Heller says is a good idea. The only other thing that I can think to do is run spybot and ad-aware ( http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-D.../3000-8022_4-10401314.html?tag=lst-0-1 and http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Per...-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=pop.software ), as well as some other virus program. Although you may have a new windows install, it takes almost no time to get malware on your computer, some of which you can't just turn off with msconfig

 

[Boyo]

Don't have your anti-virus and firewall programs set for start up. That is something that can slow down the boot time. Get rid of any other programs that don't need to be included in start up.

 

[SuperNaruto]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1785996,00.asp

# of items.. including services and thing like disable system restore...

you can always get a pair of iram and make a 8gb boot

 

[zephyrprime]

Are there any pauses during startup?

 

[neovan]

regedt32

remove what is not needed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

do the same thing in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run