Slow Startup

[Amuro Ray]

Can anyone help me out? Just recently my Windows XP has
been really slow starting up. It gets to the Welcome
Screen and then it takes a really long time to get to the
desktop.

[\(yet another\) Steve]

We have a one month old Dell XP system that has a slow (2.5-3 mins) startup
as-well. I fully understand that you can expect certain programs (Norton
Antivirus for one) to add time to your start-up but 2 or 2 mins is a long
time. My WinMe system boots in less than 1 min. To make sure its not a *real
problem* check is your Event logs for errors. (right click on My Computer
and select Manage).

If you research the slow startup issue, you'll find its pretty common and
someone in this newsgroup said they traced the cause to the WinXp SP1
Windows Update. If that's true, MS will have a fix for the fix (hopefully
within your lifetime).

Steve

"Amuro Ray" > wrote in message
...
> Can anyone help me out? Just recently my Windows XP has
> been really slow starting up. It gets to the Welcome
> Screen and then it takes a really long time to get to the
> desktop.

[\(yet another\) Steve]

Just a follow-up.
I fixed the slow startup on our fairly new DELL 2.53GHz PC by adding more
RAM. The PC had 128 megs and I added another 128. The boot time went from
2.5-3 mins down to 50 seconds.

I've learned a lesson though. Since this is the first XP box we've ever
bought, I would never get another with anything less than 256 megs of RAM

Steve

"(yet another) Steve" > wrote in message
m...
> We have a one month old Dell XP system that has a slow (2.5-3 mins)
startup
> as-well. I fully understand that you can expect certain programs (Norton
> Antivirus for one) to add time to your start-up but 2 or 2 mins is a long
> time. My WinMe system boots in less than 1 min. To make sure its not a
*real
> problem* check is your Event logs for errors. (right click on My Computer
> and select Manage).
>
> If you research the slow startup issue, you'll find its pretty common and
> someone in this newsgroup said they traced the cause to the WinXp SP1
> Windows Update. If that's true, MS will have a fix for the fix (hopefully
> within your lifetime).
>
> Steve
>
> "Amuro Ray" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Can anyone help me out? Just recently my Windows XP has
> > been really slow starting up. It gets to the Welcome
> > Screen and then it takes a really long time to get to the
> > desktop.
>
>