XP Slow to run

[kjharmon213]

After restart-Desktop appears-Clink on (Start) opens fine- It appears that as soon as windows needs hard drive it goes into a 2 min wait- I get an hourglass icon and then wait for hard drive light then everything works correctly for days until I have to restart and then I wait again. what can cause this -Ultra DMA mode 5 is set in properties

[wuntvor]

have u gone through all ur startup stuff?

msconfig and see what all runs on bootup - lose what you don't need

maybe there's some services you have running that you don't need as well

[Beefy]

umm.. XP doesn't come with an MSCONFIG utility, does it? you can download one somewhere though...

[SileNceR]

yeah XP does, but 2k doesnt

[Beefy]

sorry.. my mistake.. :) Thanks silencer...

[Anonymous]

virus maybe buggy

[Kheldar]

how much ram do you have cause if you only have a small amount (128 meg or less) it take a long to be ready for action when u frist start it

[kjharmon213]

I have 512 DDR ram win XP ECS K7S5A 64 NVidia Ultra 40ghard drive sound blaster live value Its only slow to start the first time after reboot 2min. Example-- Push start open control panel push performance maintance -push system open hardware-push device manager pause 2min hard drive light activates then works like a champ for days until reboot I can live with it but why?

[Wiggo]

Very strange as No.1 son has basically the same setup but it boots pretty quickly. :?:
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[SileNceR]

sorry.. my mistake.. :) Thanks silencer...

peeps not capitalising my name... sheeesh.... its only 3 letters!

there are thousands of silencers and SilenceRs and Silencers and SILENCERs out there, but AFAIK only the one SileNceR... its an individual name - keep it that way.... please :)