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Is it normal for the HD to run for over a minute at reaching desktop in Win2k SP

#1 User is offline   pr-man 

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Posted 30 March 2005 - 06:58 AM

Have Win2k pro on my P3 1ghz laptop with 512 megs ram. I dont have that many programs loading up but after i get to desktop it seems to take a long time before I can start doing things smoothly.
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#2 User is offline   peterh 

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Posted 30 March 2005 - 01:17 PM

You may have a lot of programs loaded at startup. Look at Registry in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to see whats loaded and in Start, Programs, Startup

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#3 User is offline   Wilhelmus 

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Posted 30 March 2005 - 03:46 PM

Defrag your hard drives.
Scan for viruses and spy/adware.
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Posted 30 March 2005 - 04:13 PM

Also, look in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
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#5 User is offline   DosFreak 

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Posted 31 March 2005 - 04:41 AM

or just load up StartUp Control Panel and stop hunting around in the registry. wink
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Posted 31 March 2005 - 04:11 PM

Or run msconfig.

But, I prefer going through the registry. I'm a lot more comfortable there.
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