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Xp home slow @ loading personal settings

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by krista01

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Can anyone help me. I'm trying to optimize my laptop. At the moment, just starting up to users is a mission. approx 1 min, then about 1.5 - 2mins to load personal settings.

Any ideas on how I can do this.

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by nimmo

Take a look at your startup config. Start>run>msconfig>startup tab, un-check any items that don't need to be started at login.

by krista01

Thanx, I've already tried that. Also ran a few utility programs to try and clean up the registry, spyware etc. It just seems very slow. Not sure on some of the services running in the background tho. Not too familiar with those. Any comments on the standard services that should be running or is that dependent on the s/w installed?

by nimmo

Yes it does depend on what software is installed.

What I suggest is that you open task manager and the services managment console, take a look at each service from task manager and look it up in the management console.

The management console will tell you dependant services and give a small description of what it is.

You should probabley also do a lookup on each service on google or some other search engine to get a better description.

When you are looking up each service in the management console pay attention to the ones that are running high CPU usage and RAM usage.

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