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Excessive Startup Time
I use a Windows XP Sp3 desktop computer with an AMD Athlon 2GHZ processor,
149GB hard disc with 133.3GB free space and 512MB of RAM. I regularly use CCleaner, Ad-Aware and Ashampoo Cleaner. After startup, when all the desktop, task bar and notification area icons have appeared, the processor runs for another 5 or 6 minutes before I am able to use it. In msconfig Startup, I have turned off all the none essential programmes I recognise to stop them starting but it makes no difference. In Task Manager, quite often, System Idle is showing CPU use as 92% to 99% idle but the hard disc is very busy with CPU use diving between various processes but AAW Service.exe which I believe to be Ad-Aware disabled in msconfig, is always shown as working and sometimes takes over from System Idle with up to 99% CPU usage. What is going on? Other than completely re-installing Windows, can anyone please suggest what I can do to speed startup? |
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