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| Thread ID: 46853 | 2004-07-07 22:31:00 | long startup too | Trev O (452) | Press F1 |
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| 250551 | 2004-07-07 22:31:00 | I have a laptop with a 2.2ghz celeron and 256m of ram and 30g hard drive. recently the person I sold my last comp to, a 1.3ghz celeron 384m ram and 40g hdd, needed some help. When I was checking his problem out (might be a post later) I realised his started up a good 6 seconds quicker than mine! So pressing both the start buttons together, they both hit the windows loading screen (green dots flashing etc.) at the same time (his a split second faster) and then I could log in and be all finshed on his, whilst mine is still loading windows!! So can this be down to the ram or is it all the new critical updates that I do and he probably doesn't. I'm guessing it's nothing to do with what we each have on our hard drives? Thanks for any clues Trev |
Trev O (452) | ||
| 250552 | 2004-07-07 22:57:00 | Un-tick a bunch of stuff in msconfig | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 250553 | 2004-07-07 23:05:00 | Did his computer have a fresh reinstall of Windows when you sold it to him? If he hasn't installed many programs, it will load Windows much faster. As already mentioned, take a look at your startup list using Start > Run msconfig and make sure you don't have unnecessary programs starting automatically. Use this site (www.pacs-portal.co.uk) to decide whether a program needs to be in startup or not. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 250554 | 2004-07-07 23:08:00 | It could be a multitude of things. Spyware, Viruses, Fragmented Hard Drive, and Apps installed. Yes it could be RAM, with windows XP no amount is too much. As Rob99 has said it could be crap taking up resources at startup, and your hard drive would probably love a sprong cleaning ;) MM |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 250555 | 2004-07-08 04:14:00 | I had wondered if those start up progs start up after windows had started, and someone had logged on, but it doesn't sound like it... I have avg, za and the mouse pad settings load at start(4 items in msconfig), but don't feel that I can turn them off , I tried just now, but forgot to turn them on before I went on the web! (he has just avg) his comp is full of all the progs I left on it, so it is virtually identical and I defragged his (1st since he's had it!) and bootvised it too. I've spy botted, adawared, bootvised, diskkeepered, JV16ed and avged both back to the ram though, will more ram increase or decrease start up time? ie, more ram= more to do at startup, or more ram= easier to start up? and having a 2.2 has nothing over a mere1.3...? thanks Trev |
Trev O (452) | ||
| 250556 | 2004-07-08 04:36:00 | Sounds like you have a ZE series HPQ laptop? Moving to 256 MB RAM has not produced any noticeable improvement on mine, either in boot speed or in general operation. Startup speed is lower on a laptop, due to the standard laptop HDD being 4200 RPM probably. Laptops are geared to low heat dissapation and low power disappation, not blinding speed. My 2 GHz P4 desktop boots far quicker than either of my laptops, always has. Performance for general office applications is about the same though. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 250557 | 2004-07-08 08:23:00 | Thanks GF, yes HP ze4300 with 256 installed... much more convienient , size wise, than the pavillion 521a desktop! So a ram upgrade ($100+) may not help much then? It's not really a biggy IF there's nothing I can do about it... Thanks everyone anyways Trev |
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