slow boot up

• bismarck

  14 Sep 04, 20:44

  my com's boot up is rather slow..then the HDD's making alot of noise during boot up.
  i was wondering if there's ways or methods to make it quicker and quieter ?
  thought abt adding another stick of 256mb ram for the smoother run
  anyway my processor already 1.67ghz but i aint running design...so shld be enuf bah? why so slow?
• ditzy

  14 Sep 04, 20:47

  Boot up as in boot up to the login screen or boot up as in at the windows desktop?
• bismarck

  14 Sep 04, 20:50

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Boot up as in boot up to the login screen or boot up as in at the windows desktop?

  both..
  the booting to login screen longer than to desktop..
  
  itching to reformat..but i got loads of data to back up..
• ditzy

  14 Sep 04, 20:52

  When was the last time you did a defrag of the HDD? Time for it.
• bismarck

  14 Sep 04, 23:10

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  When was the last time you did a defrag of the HDD? Time for it.

  i defragged it like a few days ago..on sat i think..but only for 1 of the drives..
• ak0

  14 Sep 04, 23:29

  u using wat os?
  
• BaByBoY

  14 Sep 04, 23:31

  i tink perhaps is OS or u kenna virus!!!
  better checck
• BeNo

  14 Sep 04, 23:34

  wat ur RAM and HD size now?
• bismarck

  14 Sep 04, 23:54

  winXP
  ram 1 stick of 256MB
  
  HDD
  1 19.1GB ( this is waht the My com tells me)
  2. 25.4GB ( this is waht the My com tells me)
• bismarck

  14 Sep 04, 23:58

  plus now my com is getting incredibly slow and noisy
  
  had photoshop on (but not processing anything, word( not typing), netscape(not d/l anything) then when i tried to switch between photoshop and netscape..there was a massive lag...
• ditzy

  15 Sep 04, 00:00

  Dun open so many heavy apps at one go. Wah use photoshop and multitask others. Your HDD having a torturous time.
• BeNo

  15 Sep 04, 00:06

  should get another 256M...
  
  hhmmm... delete tmp files under ur profile? stop services not required...
• BaByBoY

  15 Sep 04, 00:07

  i tink ram is MIN for XP os condition
• ditzy

  15 Sep 04, 00:07

  Even better, turn off system restore.
  Can free up to 1GB HDD space.
• bismarck

  15 Sep 04, 00:07

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Dun open so many heavy apps at one go. Wah use photoshop and multitask others. Your HDD having a torturous time.

  i am not using those progs..
  just leaving it alone only..
• nemo77

  15 Sep 04, 00:48

  Originally posted by bismarck:

  my com's boot up is rather slow..then the HDD's making alot of noise during boot up.
  i was wondering if there's ways or methods to make it quicker and quieter ?
  thought abt adding another stick of 256mb ram for the smoother run
  anyway my processor already 1.67ghz but i aint running design...so shld be enuf bah? why so slow?

  -add another 256mb ram will help...
  -install adware, registry editor,internet eraser from download.com.
  -goto Run --->msconfig n unchecked those unused programs during startup.
  -uninstall unwanted programs.
  -when's the last time u format the pc? can consider this option..
  
  remember, pc is like human,
  the older it is...the slower it gets.
  
• Parka

  15 Sep 04, 01:02

  Red alert. Better backup your data now.
  
  I just formated my computer last weak. Damn. Didn't give warning then suddenly that day cannot start.
  
  512Ram is very optimum for WinXP, esp when WinXp is not a very good resource allocator.
  
  backup....backup......
• bismarck

  15 Sep 04, 09:39

  Originally posted by nemo77:

  -add another 256mb ram will help...
  -install adware, registry editor,internet eraser from download.com.
  -goto Run --->msconfig n unchecked those unused programs during startup.
  -uninstall unwanted programs.
  -when's the last time u format the pc? can consider this option..
  
  remember, pc is like human,
  the older it is...the slower it gets.
  

  i unchecked like half the list the last time i looked at it.. now most of it are symantec(norton) stuff...like liveupdate etc..
  cant uncheck right?
  
  unwanted ah...most of it i need...then i dont run it all the time..
• bismarck

  15 Sep 04, 09:39

  Originally posted by Parka:

  Red alert. Better backup your data now.
  
  I just formated my computer last weak. Damn. Didn't give warning then suddenly that day cannot start.
  
  512Ram is very optimum for WinXP, esp when WinXp is not a very good resource allocator.
  
  backup....backup......

  oh dear..someone lend me a dvd player? just kidding...
  i defrag also cannot..
  
  maybe i shld get another 256...but no $$$$
• ditzy

  15 Sep 04, 11:03

  Here is a temp fix, clean up your desktop, minimal icons. System tray, turn off as many auto startups as possible.
• nOrmalbOi

  15 Sep 04, 11:49

  backup as soon as possible ba... u did say ur HDD is making a lot of noise... which at the worst case is the read/write head scratching on the disk... which means ur disk us going really soon...
  
  back up soon or u might stand to lose a lot of stuff
• bismarck

  15 Sep 04, 22:42

  noisy i think as in using the hdd as a ram...tht's the source.
  
  just that i hate the noise of the hdd during boot up and occasionally