Slow Boot w/ 3.2E

[nysethm]

Well I am having somewhat an issue here...
Windows loads up pretty slow and I have a pretty fast machine.
When I game, or do my video editing, everything is golden.
It bothers me why it loads slow? But yet the system is so damn fast. Ughhh


Specs:
3.2E w/HT & 1mb Cache
512(2x256)Dual Channel PC3200 Mushkin
GeForce FX 5900XT
ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe
80GIG Western Digital (for XP and apps)
120GIG Western Digital (for storage)
Windows XP Pro

Any Ideas?

 

[klaviernista]

disable a bunch of the stuff that xp loads at startup.

 

[ss284]

Reformat

Or rather, find a spare drive and install a clean copy of your OS and see if there is any imrprovement. If there is, then reformat.

 

[Ryoga]

Nine times out of ten, XP's slow booting is due to borked network connections or network drivers... IMX.

I would download BootVis to do some troubleshooting to pin down the precise cause. Note that BootVis requires Task Scheduler to be enabled.