How To Make My Start Up Faster?
Aug 31, 2007How To Make My Start Up Faster and Shut Down it seems it takes forever to start up and turning it off
View 9 RepliesHow To Make My Start Up Faster and Shut Down it seems it takes forever to start up and turning it off
View 9 RepliesI just cleared the temp files, and removed some unnecessary programs that load up at bootup Is ther ea program or another way to get my computer up to speed?
I have a regular PC for work, and my programs are NOT memory hungry.. and i have 2 gigs of RAM on this
What can I keep from starting up when I turn on my computer in order to make my computer faster starting up?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just reinstalled xp and all the drivers for my comp and updated to sp3, so i was wondering if there is something i can get rid of or turn off that can make my system run faster because pc 2700 ram dont come cheap I have a compaq presario V2565, with an AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M AGP, and 512Mb of ram.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI had a random thought. and I can't find much information on the idea. What happens if I make my XP partition 40 gigs so I had room for programs, but then, for something like Oblivion, Id partition 8-10 gigs strictly for the game. Then Sims 2 id do like, 10 gigs strictly for sims 2. So...would that make the games run faster cause theres only a small area to search, or, is it a waste of time?
View 11 Replies View RelatedSeems like this would be a common question, but I didn't find it anywhere. Feel free to refer me to an appropriate post if there is one.My old laptop bit the dust, and I've got a loaner. It's very low on memory and everything is just really slow. The obvious solution is to add more memory but I won't be able to do that for awhile. In the meantime, is there anything I can do to increase this computer's performance? I searched online and found a lot of hype about disabling services, but upon further research it seems like that won't actually help, with the possible exception of turning off Themes or indexing.I don't run anything fancy on this computer, mostly Firefox, Thunderbird, that sort of thing. It's an Hp Pavillion ze5600 running Windows XP.Keep in mind that I know more about computers than the average office worker, but only slightly. I appreciate any suggestions you have. I have done things like disk cleanup, defrag, virus and spyware scans, and getting unnecessary programs out of the startup, but that is about the extent of my knowledge.
View 10 Replies View Relatedwhen i click on my Desktop Icons or on Start and one of the programs in there, it takes about 15 seconds for it to go, can i make this faster?
View 12 Replies View Relatedhow can i make my unit run faster if im using WinXP pro? to make it better for playing?
View 2 Replies View Relatedthe wife was listening to music (on the hard drive through winamp not the cd player) last night - two songs into list the music stops - she checks the computer , monitor is off, cue light is flashing orange and the computer appears to be running.puzzled, she tries a restart. upon restart,the computer appears to be on- power supply on, fans are running, lights are on, but there is no image on the monitor, monitor cue light flashing orange. i check the system this morning and get the same basic results. aditionally, the cd drive and the floppy drive are unresponsive, apparently off- no "drive" lights. thinking, but running out of ideas and looking for some suggestions.
View 6 Replies View Relatedwhat kind of tweaks can on do on a PC to make it boot up and shut down faster?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedCNET used to have an online class for making XP run faster, it really worked great. I just reinstalled my XP Prof OS and cant remember all the little goodies do you guys still have those available anymore? As A matter of fact there were all kinds of really cool online classes you could take, but i cant seem to find any. Where did they go?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm in need of finding out what services are enabled and what are not as the 'tech' that worked on my computer disabled many services to make my computer go faster. I didn't want it faster I wanted it usable and functional. If you could point me to a list or provide a list that would be awesome.
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy dell dimension 2350 , windows xp home just keeps running slower and slower . i have defragged , deleted internet files , history ,etc. , but no help . i have not loaded any games or programs , i just handle emails and do some surfing . will running the banner reccomended registry booster II make my beast faster , and do so safely?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI would really like to know if there is any effective internet accelerator or booster to make my PC run faster and increase the speed of web browsing/loading pages.However,I can find many such programs on the internet but problem is which one really work wonders.I am currently using cable modemwhich allows me to surf with download speed of up to 1.5Mbps.Besides upgrading to a higher tier bandwidth broadband internet access,I would be glad if you can suggest some other methods to increase speed.For your info,I am running on windows XP Pro Serv.Pk2
View 2 Replies View RelatedI read somewhere that disabling the different graphics themes in windows helps your pc start up faster. Well i did it and i can't remember how to turn it back on. I've gone to Properties of the display > Appearance ad the in the "Windows and buttons" drop menu, all I have to choose is the Windows classic theme. The XP is not an option. So how do i get that back, b/c this screen is kinda drab.
View 16 Replies View RelatedMy OS is Windows XP Service Pack 2 and my CPU is 3.2 gig, a memory of 1 gig ddr. I'm trying to look for a software to boot my PC faster. I've tried Microsoft Bootvis but didn't improve the the cold booting and rebooting. Anybody knows what's the best way to improve the performance of my machine.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am trying to reformat my daughters computer using the Windows XP Home Edition CD. But after installing a new CD Rom drive, the computer doesn't recognize the cd rom. I tired add new hardware wizard but when it gets to the part where I can pick the hardware I am trying to install it doesn't list any CD rom drives. I have even tried to change the boot sequence in the Bios settings. Still no luck. So I am hoping that there is a way for me to make a start up disk using the Original Windows XP Home Edition CD.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAnyway all my icons on my desktop are zoomed in, when i zoom them out the space between them is huge and on all applications everything is zoomed in. My start bar has text that is really zoomed in. Even the minimise, restore down and red cross in the top right corner of my browser are zoomed in. Any ideas on how I can make this smaller. ( I have already tried changing my resolution).
View 14 Replies View RelatedWe had an Acer Netbook Aspire One crash a couple of weeks ago. We have tried to restore and a varety of other things.The Netbook DOES NOT have a CD drive nor do we have an external CD drive.We have a 1Gig USB stick, We ended up by having to order 2 discs from Acer - 1 to fix the partition and one to fix Windows.How do we make the stick bootable? Would prefer it in simple terms please.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWinXP uses Documents & Settings as the default folder to store downloads, Word files, etc. How can I make another folder the default, so that when I start to download a file, it automatically opens MyDocs New. I know I can change the defaults on Word, Excel. but I want to change WinXP.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSmall irritating issue here, I have a pc running WindowsXP Pro and every time the system is rebooted I get the System Configuration Utility box come up, the one saying, "You have used the System Config Utility to make changes to the way windows starts.etc." I have seen this before and am use to it as I use the utility to stop alot of apps. The difference this time is that I cannot get the box from appearing after each startup. I have checked the box that says "Don't show this message or launch the system configuration utility when windows starts", but it shows up every time. I have also tried to remove this from the registry.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe specs on my desktop are better than those on my laptop. Why does my desktop not run like I feel like it should? Are there some simple ways for me to test it's performance and possibly locate the reason for it's sluggish behavior?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI currently use a UK dial up connection with Connectfree to access the internet; generally without any problems. There now appear to be a number of "faster dial up" applications available (all at a cost of course) that claim to enhance speeds on average by a factor of X5. For example - Onspeed in the UK. Does anyone have any experience of any of these applications or know of any similar applications that are free. At the end of the day, I assume it is only a packet compression tool?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWell i built a new PC a while ago, and i was about to sell my old one when my mother said she wanted to buy it from me (she offered to pay for it; I didn't ask her to buy it).SO anyway, tonight I wiped my old computer and put Windows XP Pro back on it. Well i was amazed at how much faster it boot into windows than my new PC. It does about 3-4 bar moves (the green bar moves front to back 3-4 times) and then bam, into the log in screen/ desktop.It takes my new PC about 8 bar passes to boot into windows.
Does having multiple partitions on a hard drive speed up performance?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI realise you've already seen a few queries on this, but I can't find
an answer to my particular problem.I just bought a USB 2.0 PCI card and installed it. But I'm not getting any difference in transfer speed when downloading mp3 files to my mp3 player. My mp3 player used to provide a pop up message when I
connected it to my PC saying that it could transfer faster, but it no
longer does that despite my transfer rates still being the same.I've checked the device manager, and I do get something appearing stating I have a "Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller" so I'm assuming that I do have the USB 2 installed.
I have a 10,000 RPM HDD attached to my computer by using USB port. Do I loose any HDD speed? Is IDE HDD faster than USB HDDs?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've tried tiscali and tesco IPS (currently tesco), with both IE and firefox. Modem is 56K yet downloads are between 5-6K. I've looked at the 'about;config' for firefox yet that seems to be for broadband users only.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an old computer that's running windows xp, and I want to know what I can delete from my add remove to make things run faster. I use disk cleanup and defrag often, as well as a free registry cleaner every now and again (which seems to pick up the same problems every time, i think mostly because error files are with programs that came preinstalled on my computer that are long gone, if anyone knows how to get rid of those let me know). I'm running on only 512 mb of memory. How do I view other specs? I can also provide a list of the things in add remove if you like so you guys can tell me what's unnessesary.
View 14 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to set my computer up to browse the internet with greater speed?I know, I should get cable right?
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