For clarification, by boot time I mean the time it takes for my desktop to be fully loaded & my Norton Security to go on, so I can actually do a function on my computer, like get on the Internet. Right now on my HP Media Center computer which has 1 gig of RAM, 120 gig hardrive (of which about 105 gigs of space are free), XP operating system, it takes about 6-10 minutes to be fully booted up. Will adding more memory or any other device speed up my boot time? I constantly review my startup items using MSCONFIG & try to not have my desktop super overloaded with icons. I also defrag my hard drive regularly & have software that checks and corrects registry errors.
Anyway, will additional memory or anything else make my boot time faster, or is the 6-10 minute time, par for the course? Any suggestions appreciated. Thank You.
Additional memory is not the problems to be looking at! Hardwares failing, faulty memory, a weak hard drive, shaky bios or weak battery on the board, and even a power supply going bad are more likely causes! XP will run fine with 1gb of good memory with a small amount of startups even though Norton is often commented on as a resource grabber?! Hardware, battery, supply, or ?
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on my computer it counts the RAM, if i add more it speeds up POST for me. and yeah, if your HDD takes a few seconds to detect then its probably weak, bad, or something. and you say you defrag... do you disk cleanup? and too many files n your HDD slows it down. get TUNEXP. scan for viruses, trojans, and spyware/adware too.
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With those specs, unless you have a very slow processor, the problem sounds more like software than hardware. I mean my freshly loaded test system(1.4GHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HD) boots in just a few seconds. However, there's really nothing that loads during startup either.
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run --> msconfig --> last tab --> uncheck anything you don't want to load at start up.
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By using the advice given by "ADE" if you "uncheck" the box labeled (HP Organize) assuming your HP uses this program too, it can take off almost 1 minute of boot-up time. Best of Luck!
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To reiterate, by boot time I mean the time it takes for everything to load so you can actually use your computer. It takes me around 7 minutes or so to do so. Is this normal?
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Originally Posted by Peachesbackwards
To reiterate, by boot time I mean the time it takes for everything to load so you can actually use your computer. It takes me around 7 minutes or so to do so. Is this normal?
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Uhm.
no.
Takes mine about 40 seconds :]
Was about half that when I freshly built and installed the OS :]
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which part of the POST does it take most of the time to boot
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Originally Posted by Peachesbackwards
To reiterate, by boot time I mean the time it takes for everything to load so you can actually use your computer. It takes me around 7 minutes or so to do so. Is this normal?
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Do you have a printer or any other additional devices connected to the system there? Even with only 128mb and a few items loading you never see it take that long for XP especially to load. XP was the first in line to load the desktop the fastest. Vista only offers a slight edge to that. Any printer, printer/scanner/fax, or how about a usb adapter with extra devices there? A faulty device connected or bad expansion card can stall a system as well as a Windows boot problem.
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