What and how do I speed up my Windows X P start up?

Question

seems to just take forever, to the point where I turn the PC on then find something else to do for 5-10 minutes. After all that time, shut down seems to take lots of time too. Am I doomed?

Answer 1

First of all, this tweak only apply to those who only have one HDD on their primary IDE channel (nothing else on device 0 or 1) and a CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE channel. Each time you boot Windows XP, there's an updated file called NTOSBOOT-*.pf who appears in your prefetch directory (%SystemRoot%Prefetch) and there's no need to erease any other files as the new prefetch option in XP really improves loading time of installed programs. We only want WindowsXP to boot faster and not decrease its performance. Thanks to Rod Cahoon (for the prefetch automation process...with a minor change of mine) and Zeb for the IDE Channel tweak as those two tricks, coupled together with a little modification, result in an EXTREMELY fast bootup:

1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:

2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".

3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.

4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".

5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.

6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".

7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"

8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".

9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".

10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.

11. Reboot your computer.

WindowsXP should now boot REALLY faster.  

Answer 2

How much memory do you have?  Consider boosting it, visit Crucial.com for more info and a easy to use tool.

Ever run CCleaner?  Chances are you have tons of temp and garbage files on your pc, time to clean them up.  http://www.ccleaner.com

When was the last defrag run?  Auslogics is a freebie and does a better job than the windows tool.  http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/dis...

Ever run Spybot to remove spy/mal ware?  http://www.safer-networking.org/en/

Answer 3

Clean out Temporary Internet files.

Easiest way to do that without doing the manual search.

Start

Search

Type in the file name, Temporary internet files.

When it appears, open it and be shocked at the hundreds of files there.  These all load at Startup.

At EDIT, Choose all files.

On the left,Choose Delete all .

Choose Yes to all.

This should help.  Good luck.

Answer 4

maybe you have spyware on you computer or maybe its just filled with junk you should try cleaning it out visit this website http://www.superfoos.blogspot.com/ and see the videos that i put there and look for the best cleaning software you like the links to get them are at the bottom of the page