why does my computer take ling to start up?

Question

windows xp

Answer 1

"Long" you mean?

There could be several reasons. First of al, XP, like any Windows OS can be horrifically inefficient at times. Just booting up XP by itself takes several minutes.

Are you on a network? If so, when your computer boots up it must go through the process of reconnecting to the network. Depending on the speed and size of the network, this can also take several minutes.

What software automatically boots up with your computer? Do AIM, MSN Messenger, or YIM automatically turn on when your computer does? Each of these adds at least 30 sec to a minute of boot up time.

What anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-popup software are you running? Each of these must boot up with the computer, slowing it down even more.

Is all of your hardware working properly? If your CPU, cache, RAM, and/or hard drives are broken or slow, start up will take much longer. You will probably also notice performance problems elsewhere in your computer if you have a hardware malfunction.

Finally, you may have some kind of virus or other malicious software. Malicious software takes up far more than its fair share of CPU time and memory space.

I would recommend:
1. Get your computer scanned for Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Adware, etc.
2. Uninstall or turn off some of your unneccesary software. By default, instant messenger programs and such things turn themselves on automatically. You can set these to not do this.
3. If you still have problems, bring your computer in to be looked at by an expert.

Answer 2

no 1
you can format your comp.
no 2
you can defrag ur harddisk
no 3
you can do scandisk n compact ur hardisk
no 4
you can use a 'clean-up' software to filter unneccessary
com or internet stuffs
no 5
you can manually free up unwanted things n save memory
no 6
you can clean ur registery n unused shortcuts, icons, etc
no 7
you can go to microsoft website or some antivirus or com mantainace webbie for a scan
no 8
you can get rid of spywares or any software that u seldom use to save space
no 9
you can type in under run>'msconfig' then configure the things u want windows to setup when u boot ur com
no 10
you can also off ur firewall for faster processing

Answer 3

I totally agree with answerer number 3, the one that starts with
'"Long" you mean?'

I only want to add the size of your RAM and how much space you have left on your hard drive will also influence the time it takes to start up.

One of my friends has 256MB ram and many start-up programs. The system takes a long (loooonnnnngggg) time to start up.

One other thing, if you are running Firefox, Mozilla, or even Opera, they seem to have problems on any Windows OS.

Answer 4

Probably has a lot of processes in the startup.
You can see these processes if you load "scotty the watchdog" (paretologic I think). Then you can safely delete ALL entries in your startup.
The booting time can go from 10 mins to 2-3 seconds!

Answer 5

you can use hybernate feature of xp. enable hybernate option from desktop->properties->screensaver tab -> power -> hybernate tab -> enable hybernae
when u shut down press shift, stand by option change to hybernate. click on it

Answer 6

it could be a couple things such as you just have a slow processor, or you have too many programs trying to boot up when you turn it on.