PC Boot up slow

[david_376]

My pc is P3 1ghz running window Xp, dont know it can stay on the bootup screen very long, about 2-5 minutes, anyone know why?

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
i think the long time could be for starting your services and for the pre-login antivirus scan.

Try disabling all unwanted services from

control panel | administrative tools | services

Massimo

[Jorge Pinto Leite]

How much memory do you have? And, as already said, what services are you starting on bootup?
The unwanted services can be disabled on boot, but if you have less than 128MB RAM it will stay long time is bootup screen.

[Jerome Henry]

Adding to the above comments, try start/execute/msconfig, you'll have the list of services and programs launched.
Try unclicking and reboot if you think that it's not a problem of ram or antivirus...
J

[david_376]

I did a clean installation of winxp pro..n i dont know why it stay in the bootup screen for so long..

My cpu hav 512 sdram

And no other stuff like software is installed yet...

[Perignon]

David,

Most of longly booting-processes are lying with either too many programmes starting/running at the same time, or lack of memory (note that both diagnostics are very much dependent on each other).

This said, 128Mb are considered the strict minimum level of RAM for WIN XP proper, so I let you imagine what happens when other programmes are running at the same time. You may be wishing to augment the RAM as appropriate. That's my first guess.

Alain.

[Jon Finley]

Do you have SP1 for XP installed?

Jon