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No more Slow Boot Up… Guide to a fast startup!

Suffering from a slow boot up in your new or old computer? Don’t worry most people’s computer take forever to startup. However, the way you go about repair this problem can cost you very little or a whole lot. Most people quickly start looking for affordable hardware solution such as faster hard drives, more RAM, or even a new processor. …

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Slow Windows startup is an issue faced by almost every PC user at one point in their computer’s life cycle. There could be various reasons as to why Windows take a long time to boot. Using msconfig to remove useless programs from the startup menu is one way of fixing the issue. However, a lot of times, more needs to be done to speed up the Windows startup process.

Windows Vista and …

The dual core isn’t supposed to make it boot faster. It’s good for multi tasking.

Windows 2000 is known for slow boot times…but generally in the 60-75sec area depending on the machine and how many programs are installed and how many are in the start up routine. XP is basically an optimized version of 2000 and boots faster by design.

All that said….at 4 minutes…YOU GOT ISSUES! Or rather your system does.

You don’t …

Slow Boot-Up? – Here are some Tips Sep 28 ’00

I just spent 2 hours over to a friendÂ’s house just going through his PC because he was having major slowdown problems with it.

He owns an AMD K6/2 450mhz and yet it was taking forever to boot up and taking way to long when you tried to go into folders. His PC was taking over 3 minutes to go from power up to having windows …

Is your laptop running slow? Remember sometime around this time last year, or maybe the year before that (if it was before then we’ll just pretend) when your new computer worked perfectly? It only took seconds for your computer to boot up. Now you can take a shower, have breakfast and wash the dishes in the time it takes the start menu to show up. Why is your laptop running slow?

Your computer is similar to your …

It was time to purchase a new computer and I ended up buying a Dell Dimension E520. I will write a detailed review once more hours have been logged on it but for now, I hope this little tip can save someone hours of headache from Windows Vista transferring data at extremely slow speeds over a network.

Once the new machine was setup, I proceeded to transfer data from my old PC to the new Dell. Everything worked ok. Got the network setup, can …

… try anything, try this: Go into your BIOS settings and look for something that looks like “Quick Boot” or “Quick Power On Self Test”. Depending on the amount of RAM and how fast it is, it could take an extremely long time to boot the machine, because the computer must first test every single bit of RAM. I always set mine to boot quickly.

Without being able to view the problem directly, I suspect you could be having an IDE problem. Here are some tips that might help you fix the …

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Trouble:

Recently a friend of mine asked us to help her out with slow start up of her computer. It takes too long to boot the computer. It was very slow even after it boots. Though the computer had a decent hardware configuration.

This problem is not un-common. The main reason behind such problems is too many start-up tasks start when windows start. Also as we install different software or applications on computer, there are some background tasks …

Your pc is running slow again? Well, there are few steps you can take in order to speed up computer boot, but, there’s another simple and more elegant way to do that which won’t require you to have any special skills or require you to repair your Computer by yourself. Read the following quick review and easily find out the ultimate way to effectively speed up your windows.

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Will Windows 7 Speed Up Your Computer?

When it hits store shelves in October, Windows 7 is likely to be the nicest upgrade Microsoft has completed in years, and not because it includes many new bells and whistles. From a visible standpoint, Windows 7 won’t be that different from Windows Vista, but assuming that Windows 7 is carrying Vista’s bags will be a mistake. Windows 7, although built on the same …