Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Ok as the title suggests, this is my question. Ive done the following:

Defragged the hard disk
Done regular spyware scans
Done regular virus checks
Disabled programs using a combination of Startup Inspecter for Windows and msconfig.

I just dont know why my system is so slow

AMD Athalon XP 2100+ 1.74GHz
1024MB Ram
Windows XP Home

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Honest answer, don't know?
Could try this, mate I have says it's great, but not tried it myself yet:

http://www.bugdoctor.com/

Or it could be virus checkers running in background, or combination of programmes.
Spec of my PC not much higher than yours, and itself was running slow yesterday, complete re-install last night, hey presto, full speed ahead once more, maybe time to spring clean yours?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Right disable all the themes, they are only bloat,

another thing if you can lower the settings on your gfx I have on my ati x700 from balanced to performance and it made alot of difference yes my graphics are not as pretty but it plays the game.

Try to run as lean as possible in the sys tray all those little handy apps can load up and don't need to have a icon and program wasting your ram and cpu

when you hit ctrl+alt+del and into task manager how many processes you got going?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Reinstall your gfx- oh, and get rid of that ****ty processor.

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

zinglebarb gave me this help which worked really well for me as I had exceedingly slow shut downs https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?p=523868

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Does your start up time really matter? Do you need to have your PC start in 10 seconds? Mines about 120 seconds but I only reset my PC when I have to.

What's your current start up time?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Mine seems to take forever because of the anti-virus and firewall but i'm happy with that :D

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

mines takes about 35 secs onmy main rig.

Get rid of the fancy desktops and skins, if you're using XP remove all the xp prettyness and run it in oldschool windows dress.

remove sounds and only load programs that you really need on startup, i.e firewall, anti virus etc

should speed it up a bit.

Do a seach for xp tweeks/tweaks on google, theres planty to play about with.

hth

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

I tried that, and will see how it works out.
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I have it in the old windows style and everything so, that should also speed it up as well.

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

See if this article is of any use http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

Regards.

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Out of interest Wayne do you run norton/symantec?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Define slow. How long does startup/shutdown take? Perhaps you are just being impatient given your specs?

Re: Why are my statups/shutdowns so slow?
 

Perhaps your HDD is just slow?

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He has a gig of RAM, i cant see it being memory shortage, the CPU is not that speedy but it's OK, what Filing System do you use.

Anyway, I always find there's a time that comes when Windows needs a clean install anyway, perhaps that time has come for you.

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NTFS

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?

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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 ...