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In news:%23xV4nufGFHA.552@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
K.J.B. <K.J.B.@home.com> typed:
> I have Windows XP Home Edition.
>
> My Windows XP takes 5mi to boot?
>
> I've preformed a virus scan, spyware scan and removal (Both
> Microsoft
> Antispyware and Search & Destroy), Disk defrag, disk cleanup.
My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how
long it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the 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 want to pursue decreasing startup time, take a
look at what programs are starting automatically. On each program
you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to see
if it has the choice not to start. 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 at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask 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.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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