to make some speed and appearence changes. Just after I made my changes, my system would boot up in around 1 minute. Now, after probably 20 or so XP automatic updates, it takes almost 2 minutes to boot up! I thought XP was supposed to boot fast! Anyone...

I have a few computers in my office that take a long time to boot, and by > long time I mean anywhere from 10 minutes to 30-45 minutes. When booting it > never even gets to the logon screen, it stays at "applying computer settings" > for a very long...

by turning the computers off dumbass. Now, everyone come to work, turns their computer on, walks around while it takes a minute to boot. They waste 5 minutes doing nothing because they can't get right to work. Figure that math out and you just cost your...

the bit, as well as being able to initiate any program immediately, and booting up extremely fast, have been doing a lot worse lately. When I boot up the computer, it takes about a minute to boot up completely, and that include about 10 seconds waiting...

any program immediately, and booting up extremely fast, have been doing a lot worse lately. When I boot up the computer, it takes about a minute to boot up completely, and that include about 10 seconds waiting for the system info window to pop up after logging...

your recommendations with msconfig. Sometimes this computer works just fine, but it still takes over a minute to boot into windows and programs are kinda sluggish at first. Taking more than a minute to boot and log in is normal if you have McAfee or some...

Slow Boot and Close. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () I have win xp fresh install with sp2 and Norton Antivirus and firewall. My system can take up to a minute to boot up to user screen, can also freeze on close. What can...

of those wireless cards?! >> thanks! You don't seem to be in a hurry. If you don't mind running windows 98 and taking a minute to boot, you can do what you want with a 486 laptop and a 16-bit PCMCIA wireless card. 486/50 with 16MB ram is about the...

Takes 10 minutes to boot. I'm not sure if this is the ISO (doubt it) or my hardware (more likely). I have motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H BIOS version F2 (updated today 12/12/2009) CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 245 RAM: ddr2 800, 4GB (2x2GB) Windows:...

of "Improves boot time and improves system stability". It installed in about 10-15 minutes and it asked to reboot my computer (as it always does after an update). Please note that before I installed this service pack, my boot time was about 2 minutes. When...