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by firebull

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I just have a really quick question, my computer, an emachines, has about 466 mhz with about 196 mb ram, but despite that the elapsed time to boot my cpu, get to my desktop to have everything ready is about 20 minutes, i'm not exaggerating any. so iwonderin does ne body have ne advice on this. keep in mind i'm 13 and not a computer genius, so in english please lol ;-) thanks.

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by anasri

You need to tweak the BIOS.There's an active discussion on it right now.You need to disable floppy disk searching on bootup by going into Device Manager. YOu need to reduce your desktop and Quicklaunch toolbar icons.Delete unnecessary ones.Disable unwanted startup programs.Defragment your hard drive after performing a Scandisk.

by jonathan

click on start : go to "run" type msconfig and enter a window appears , click on the startup tab uncheck everything except ""system tray " and "scanregistry", you will need to restart your comp to ensure changes take effect, also check your virus guard is up to date , how often do you perform maintenance, i suggest once a week for good practise , turn off all backgrounds and screensavers and desktop themes for faster performance, let me know how you get on jonathan fairlie (scotland)
j.fairlie@btinternet.com

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