I have an HP laptop that I have installed XP PRO on. It is very slow ( 2-3min) booting and takes almost as long to shut down. The XP works fine once it is booted. Any way I can speed things up? I not ice that drive C is 8megs FAT32 and drive D is 12gigs NTFS.
2007-01-11 15:14:48 · 15 answers · asked by George M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I'll just go ahead and assume the info on the c drive was a typo
in any case, take a look at what you got running at startup.
go to run and type msconfig
under the startup tab you'll see everything that launches with windows.
(most programs tend to start themselves when you log into windows as default) If you have a lot running at startup it'll take time and resources to get them all going.
Most of what you see listed can be safely removed from startup. It's hard to advise someone unfamiliar with basic system functions so I won't tell you to uncheck all of it. At the least you should quite a number of obvious programs that don't need to run all the time.
2007-01-11 15:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi
Well you have 2 different partitions running and thats not good. Now go to the startup folder and take out all of that you dont need to boot. Then open start , go to run and type MSCONFIG once it comes up look for the last tab there you can edit what you want to load
2007-01-11 15:20:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 00:56:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fifth, if you want to get it running as fast as it can go you might need to run a system restore or maybe jus run your restore cd-rom. If you do not have the restore cd-rom look on the menu of software programs to see if you need to make a copy of your restore software disk. Be sure to back-up all you important files and photos before you run the software restore.
Sixth, if you do not want to run the restore you need to check to see if you have a virus so go to
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/security_response/index.jsp
and look for the free virus check under "Security Check Button".
2007-01-11 15:32:41 · answer #4 · answered by sirwilliam1st 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok why are they reversed?
Drive C should be the larger one, the smaller drive is always a small normally 8mb drive partitioned off the primary drive which gives it a secondary drive letter.
First i'd check into that.
however if you could give me some specs i could help a bit more.
Like cpu speed, memory, etc.
2007-01-11 15:19:08 · answer #5 · answered by projectglitch 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How much ram? how many mgh chip? You probably have too many things running on start up. go to my computer, click 'run'. type msconfig and hit enter. click on the "start up" tab and see what is clicked. if you see many check marks you have too many things starting when the computer starts. uncheck a bunch and it will go quicker. but if you uncheck the wrong thing, your computer won't start right so be careful of what you uncheck. you can look up what everything is before you uncheck it.
2007-01-11 15:20:07 · answer #6 · answered by Tumbling Dice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clean out the computer. Go programs>All programs>accesories>system tool and try disk defragmenter (or if you can do that manually), or disk cleanup. Try to delete extra programs, or just buy more memory.
2007-01-11 15:17:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your hard drive could be physically damaged because the unit got to hot.
2007-01-11 15:17:48 · answer #8 · answered by Renegade Rhianna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the hibernate option it is real quick .when u press shutdown press shift key u ll notice that the 1st option changes to hibernate use it.
2007-01-11 15:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by satish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you tried emptying the cookies....running the spy ware, ad ware etc...all the garbage can make any computer run like a snail.
2007-01-11 15:17:59 · answer #10 · answered by Chrys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋