Thread: XP Home dire slow boot up
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Old 18-02-2007, 01:05   #35
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up
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When the processor is running at 100% it is slower that a dead snail.
Ah, right.

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My mate who works in IT came round and looked in the registry, admin tools couldn't find anything despite trying for 4 hours.
Even experts can miss stuff sometimes, the offer's still there if you want.

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So I'll have to run a restore point to help then copy all the need files/save and reformat the HDD
Probably the best idea in the long run, though if you want, my offer to look over a Spybot report of that system still stands.

Another thing just occurred to me about slow startups - does it have any network adapters/ports that are enabled but either not connected to anything or connected to something that's not powered up? Pre-SP2 that used to cause a fairly big delay, though it's improved somewhat with SP2.
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