Booting Problem

[smile]

Hi All ,

I have windows XP Professional SP2 installed and the problem from few days is it takes a lot of time to boot ....I mean the desktop icons doesnt appear for atleast 10 min and i have to wait ..I did a system restore ....but in vain .Again & again i need to go to safe mode and do a system restore to boot normally....orelse it will take atleast 10-15 min to appear desktop icons.Can anyone help me what i need to do regarding this .

[rhitwick]

Originally Posted by smile

Hi All ,

I have windows XP Professional SP2 installed and the problem from few days is it takes a lot of time to boot ....I mean the desktop icons doesnt appear for atleast 10 min and i have to wait ..I did a system restore ....but in vain .Again & again i need to go to safe mode and do a system restore to boot normally....orelse it will take atleast 10-15 min to appear desktop icons.Can anyone help me what i need to do regarding this .

1>First of all uninstall any unnecessary programs(includes games u've finished, s/w u tried to check functionality, screensavers etc)
2>check ur startup, if any s/w that takes a lot memory is starting with windows. Uncheck
3>do a temp file clean with Ccleaner and clean ur registry.

[Rahim]

Make a backup of registry before CCleaning
Perform a chkdsk to check any problem with the disk.

[serendipiti]

Clean up your prefetch folder and then use microsoft bootvis to optimize startup.Also try and defrag all drives using a good defragmenter like Raxco Perfect Disk.

[Dr.tweaker]

try to defragment ur registry.use pagedefrag to defrag ur page file,also check using spybot search and destroy,shut down as many startup programs as u can using msconfig.