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| Thread ID: 29854 | 2003-02-04 09:54:00 | WinXP SP1 boot time ? | Diamond Slicer (3091) | Press F1 |
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| 118344 | 2003-02-04 09:54:00 | i have just upgraded to WinXp Pro SP1 and the amount of time my pc takes to boot has almost doubled... is this normal if not is there a way to fix it ? |
Diamond Slicer (3091) | ||
| 118345 | 2003-02-04 19:43:00 | Diamond Slicer, Try defragging. That might improve the boot time. It did for me. Oxie |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 118346 | 2003-02-04 22:44:00 | I've just done the same, and I get the impression a lot of things have slowed down. A number of apps, from Word to Windows Media Player, seem to take fractionally longer to start. My boot time has been steadily lengthening anyway. When I first installed XP it used to take five swoops of the blue "string of beads"; now it takes about 15. I did, concidentally, defrag last night and haven't rebooted since. The XP defrag is a strange beast: none of the nice reassuring "block restacking" that leaves you with a clean-looking disk map; just a before and after chart that looks like a spectrogram, and seems hardly more ordered after than before. Maybe I should get an "independent" defragger; but under Windows ME I used the one in Norton SystemWorks, and it and the Windows one seemed to disagree about the degree of fragmentation; Windows usually seemed to think Norton had made the situation worse :-) Any recommendations? Meanwhile, I look forward to my first SP1 reboot after defragging - but I won't do it just for the sake of seeking how long it takes :-) Argus |
argus (366) | ||
| 118347 | 2003-02-05 19:11:00 | Try diskeeper lite, somewhere here (http www.diskeeper.com) to defrag much quicker and they say better, still looks semi-unorganised after. May be nothing to do with your boot time though... another good reason not to -sp1- though! |
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