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Old Oct 06, 08
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I timed it!!! Windows takes 8 minutes to load

And why is that?

I'm using a pirated version of XP - so i'm lacking in the update department and I cant find away how to turn of genuine advantage.

(google has answers, but they're from 6 years ago)
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Old Oct 06, 08
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First, just to piss of rawb:

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Second, try bootvis:

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Good luck!
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coo.. spanks!
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Because you're the one using it.

Seriously man, how the hell does that happen? Check msconfig or something, disable some startup programs and services. Run a freaking spyware scan already.

8 minutes on XP is bad. You can be running 512 of RAM and you shouldn't be getting half that.

Seriously Marty, what do you do to these machines?
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Nothing! I swear!

I disabled everything in msconfig, it still happens.

If i was to reinstall windows, do you think it would fix it? Perhaps a HDD issue?
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How does your hard drive sound? How many processes are running when you boot up with everything disabled in msconfig?

Also, when's the last time you reformatted?
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Drive sounds fine
I might have the answer, even with everything disabled in msconfig, there's 22 processes still running.
Last time I reformatted was the last time I put in windows, so 6 months ago
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Old Oct 06, 08
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Yes I'm going to be one of those annoying Mac people

my mini takes 30 seconds to load =D
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What's the girl do during the wait? :)
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Yes I'm going to be one of those annoying Mac people

my mini takes 30 seconds to load =D
this is less of a function of the OS and more of a function of what the operator has done with it
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I wont lie, i have a lot of porn and torrents

Aside from spybot, what's a good spyware scanner?
Spybot doesnt seem to fix the issues, I know for a fact I have some spyware.
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Drive sounds fine
I might have the answer, even with everything disabled in msconfig, there's 22 processes still running.
Last time I reformatted was the last time I put in windows, so 6 months ago
22 processes isn't that bad. If you're not hearing anything wrong with the drive you're probably ok on that front.

I'm at a loss. Where is it at its slowest? Like, what does it take the most time doing?
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Pretty sure it's the computer slowly crying and trying to avoid having to post every one of marty's daily thoughts.
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Games take a long time to load.

The inital startup is the most brutal.
everything after windows boots is fast
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-slow hd
-lots of "startup" apps
-hd very fragmented
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my windows XP takes 30 seconds
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Games take a long time to load.

The inital startup is the most brutal.
everything after windows boots is fast
k, that's not really what I meant. What part of the bootup process is chewing up your time?
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-slow hd
-lots of "startup" apps
-hd very fragmented

All the start up apps have been disabled.

NCIX has a 500gig hd for like $70.00... I might grab that.

i'll do a hd defag tonight.
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Oh yeah, how full is your hard drive?
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k, that's not really what I meant. What part of the bootup process is chewing up your time?

Computer goes on
bios check
then windows logo comes up. That itself takes 8 minutes.

Is that what you meant?

Not full at all, I think i have 200 gigs left from a 250
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So you spend 8 minutes on the splash windows logo? Or 8 minutes from the splash page till your desktop is all up and loaded?
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splash logo itself.

After it goes away, im in windows.. 30 seconds later, im using apps
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SOUNDS LIKE YOUR SHIT SUCKS l
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That 250 gigs, is that all on your C drive (and if so why - if not how much space do you have on your C drive)
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check your paging mem too
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