Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Just out of interest, can storing large video files on your Hard Drive, slow your PC down? Ever since I've been dabbling in Video Editing, I've got some large avi files on my 2nd HD. I've bought a 2nd Hard Drive with this in mind, but lately my PC's been running slow. The files are only a few GB's in size?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

No got rid of that and im now running Avast

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Since my windows reinstall and getting rid of norton, things seem to be quicker starting up, but if I play a RAM intensive application like a game it seems to delay the shutdown (must be sorting out the swapfile). Is there a difference if you shut down straight after boot.


Also in a earlier version of itunes was a cd burning driver that would cause shutdowns to hang for a good 10 secs. This problem was fixed a while ago but it's reason to check each running task to see if any of those are responsible.

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Get the Nov '05 PC Answers when it's out. Mine came through the letterbox today (early cos I subscribe) and there's a few useful things about reducing boot times, cleanups, etc etc.

It's a great magazine anyway.

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Do you think you could post a few for me, just so i can try them please?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Yes, but I'm typing with 2 fingers at the moment. Typing all day at work and then knocking ten bells out of the piano when I got back, plus being on the PC, isn't doing the fingers any good, 1 or 2 of them are a bit sore... you can get your violins out now.

I'll type them tomorrow when I have time.

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Do a google for Bootvis .... download it, install it, run it ...