[mswindowsxp] Re: slow bootup and logon
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:46:20 +0100
Ok, thanks. It seems your hardware setup is quite ok and with lots of free
space. I'd try the PerfectDisk-trial and see if it does the system any good.
I've had good results turning off the pagefile altogether, defragging all
drives and then recreated a single-sized pagefile again. You might want to try
that also. YMMV though.
HTH.
--
/Sorin
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Rouillard [mailto:rouillardmike@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 4:33 PM
>To: sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [mswindowsxp] Re: slow bootup and logon
>
>Hello,
>Thanks for the reply. I have 2gb of ram on my computer. I have two
>partitions on my harddrive. The c drive, which has all of windows and
>programs stuff on it has 83,9 gb free space. My data partition has over
>100 gb free space. I regularly defragment and disk cleanup on both
>partitions.
>Thanks.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 3:41 am
>Subject: [mswindowsxp] Re: slow bootup and logon
>
>Hello again!
>
>Well, SP3 does replace quite a few files and the disk could get more or
>less
>fragmented again. Also you might need more than one run with the
>defragger to
>actually see a difference.
>
>You might want to try a little program called "xp_remove_hotfix.exe" in
>order
>to clean up some of the hotfix-backups WUP installs, and then run
>defrag
>again. It might speed things up a bit. See
>http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm for more info.
>Please
>note that you won't be able to uninstall some of the hotfixes if you
>run this
>cleaner-applet!
>
>As for defraggers the built-in Windows defragger is a bare-metal
>defragger
>with little or no frills at all. You might be better of with eg Raxco's
>PerfectDisk. I use it myself, with good results. The initial defrag
>will take
>a looong time, but the next ones will be faster. I believe they have a
>trial-version if you want to give it a go. See
>http://www.perfectdisk.com/home
>for more info on this program.
>
>Some antivirus software doesn't play well with SP3, but I think most of
>those
>problems have been fixed, if you use a recent antivirus solution.
>
>A poor-mans turbo-charge for a computer is to set the pagefile to a
>static
>size, ie the minimum size should be the same as the maximum. This way
>Windows
>won't spend time dynamically resizing your pagefile every now and then.
>Generally speaking the pagefile size should be about two times the
>amount of
>RAM you have installed; eg 1GB RAM > 2GB pagefile, 2GB RAM > 4GB
>pagefile and
>so on.
>
>On a slightly different track, how much RAM do you have in your
>computer? How
>much free space do you have on your (single?) harddrive?
>
>HTH.
>--
>/Sorin
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mswindowsxp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mswindowsxp-
>>bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rouillard
>>Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:17 PM
>>To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [mswindowsxp] Re: slow bootup and logon
>>
>>Thanks for your reply. I always use disk defragmenter and disk cleanup.
>>I have recently installed sp3. It has always been sort of sluggish, but
>>I think it got worse since I installed sp3.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 4:38 am
>>Subject: [mswindowsxp] Re: slow bootup and logon
>>
>>Have you tried defragmenting your drives, and paying special attention
>>to
>>the page file, MFT's and those other files Windows Defragger normally
>>won't
>>touch?
>>
>>--
>>/Sorin
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: mswindowsxp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mswindowsxp-
>>>bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rouillard
>>>Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:45 AM
>>>To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: [mswindowsxp] slow bootup and logon
>>>
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>I have windows xp pro sp3. My bootup and logon times are very slow. Is
>>>there anything I can do about this? I've already disabled unwanted
>>>startup programs and shutdown unnecessary services.
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>
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