Why does it take my computer so long to boot up?

Question

It runs fast as soon as it gets going, but I feel like beating my head against the wall waiting for it to start up everyday. What is the problem? What can I do about it? Its a new dual core computer!

Answer 1

it it feels like its booting up a lot slower than before, try clearing your start up items, clear cookie history and defragment.
You can try system recovery to put you in an earlier system setup.
Otherwise you have adware or spyware making your system run slower and slower... You need to have a good clear out and finally if all else fails, you will need a reformat for your harddrive, save your files to floppy disk otherwise your computer might crash.

Answer 2

Odds are the complicated tension is death. for a speedy try the two borrow or make a Ubuntu stay CD and boot to that. If the computing gadget runs in many situations then it is your complicated tension. Ubuntu can examine ntfs drives so now could be a stable time to work out in case you will get right of entry to the stress (sure, below Ubuntu) and reproduction any documents you opt to a CD. If the stress is amazingly undesirable it won't in any respect be readable yet lots of the time that's the boot sector and homestead windows that is going first leaving something of the stress particularly readable.

Answer 3

XP is a very complex filing system (never forget an O/S is just a filing system, no more, no less)

It takes time as it has to compute through several thousand lines of code.

The main time taken when turning a PC on is the initialisation of all the componants (graphics, usb, sound, power management, processor, fan), its this loading of the componants that really takes the time.

Answer 4

simply don't turn it off. put it on standby or hibernate.
to hibernate select turn off computer from the start menu and the screen that gives you the options to turn off restart or standby, just hold down shift and were standby was it will change to hibernate.
hibernate turns off your computer but saves your current desktop setting and whats running on the desktop to the hard drive so it only takes about 10 - 30 seconds to startup. and it doesn't take up heaps of memory either only about 119mb.
if when you press shift and the hibernate button doesn't switch over.
right click the desktop select properties select the screen saver tab and select power at the bottom of the screen. click the hibernate tab and select hibernation (turn on hibernation)
that will solve your slow booting up problem

Answer 5

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Answer 6

As well as doing as other users have suggested and using msconfig to take off any startup programs that are not needed, there is a tool called 'Bootvis' that runs analysis of the Windows XP boot process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootVis

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Use Winpatrol to cut down the software that loads on startup, it'll still be in your programs list.
http://www.winpatrol.com
And check for spyware, run your antispyware preferable in safe mode. If you don't have one look at my 360 blog for a list. (Click on my picture, follow the link from my profile)

Answer 8

Sounds like you may have some kind of Symantec security software on there, it takes a while to start the services. try getting a copy (free download) of bootvis.exe. It configures and optimises your bootup, and then you'll be able to analyse what the drag is.

Answer 9

Try looking at your start up menu. You may just have too much trying to start at once. Good luck!!

Answer 10

u got norton? it takes ages to load up