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mrman3390   06-24-2007 at 09:00:23 PM

Whenever I start up XP, or shut it down, it takes literally about 5 mins to do either. Any ideas what might be causing this?

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edklite   06-24-2007 at 09:02:20 PM
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msconfig and see if this still happens ;)

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mrman3390   06-24-2007 at 11:51:06 PM
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thanks. I know that'll help when windows starts. What I was talking about though, was the splash screen. The black screen with the windows XP logo and the loading bar? It stays on it for a good 5 minutes before windows actually starts up. any ideas on that one? or is the computer just too slow?

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edklite   06-25-2007 at 12:15:36 AM
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well did you try msconfig yet?

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mrman3390   06-25-2007 at 12:49:20 AM
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Yeah, I already did. It still says on the splash screen for about 5 mins.

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edklite   06-25-2007 at 01:04:26 AM
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what are your specs and how much free space do you have on our os drive ?

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mrman3390   06-25-2007 at 06:02:36 AM
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It's my dad's comp so I'm not real familiar with it. But from looking over it, its a 1.91 pentium 4 with 256 RAM and about 28gb open. I'm not in front of it anymore, so I can't get any more detail than that. He only uses it for applications and websurfing, and the comps a couple years old, so I doubt there's much else in it worth mention.

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edklite   06-25-2007 at 06:20:01 AM
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p4 1.91? thats got to be over 6 years old, well not sure what to tell you, maybe it is the PC itself being slow.

just make sure he cleans it with CCleaner

and a good defrag might help also.

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Zoron   06-25-2007 at 08:17:32 AM
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Also, 256MB of RAM is the absolute minimum I like to see with XP... I prefer at least 512MB... 1GB is even better.

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edklite   06-25-2007 at 08:48:47 AM
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Also, 256MB of RAM is the absolute minimum I like to see with XP... I prefer at least 512MB... 1GB is even better.



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