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slow reboot on win2k prof

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by k4k

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i have an IBM SYSTEM with PIII @ 1 GHz & 1`28 MB RAM. i installed win 2000 professional on it.

i finding its very slow at the startup , it takes lot of time to boot.

whatz the problem? how do i resolve it ?

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by rotorman

have you got alot of startup programs? That will surely slow the boot process. The when you first installed win2k with nothing else installed, it boots reasonably fast however as the harddrive fills over time, the boot process slows. Alot depends on your HD speed as well. I notice that having at least a 7200rpm harddrive helps along with lots of (266mhz m/b to support it) ddr ram if your system can take it!

by chrislbusch

you may also want to adjust your swap file to a different drive and also specify the amount of space it uses, this will increase overall performance of a pc. You may also want to look in the bios and try setting the shadowing options differently.

by m.mayberry

Is it slow at shutdown also? I had one that was clearing the pagefile at shutdown, which added time to both shutdown and startup. Try looking at the registry in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management].If you see "ClearPageFileAtShutdown"=dword:00000000, then it's not clearing. Dword:00000001 is clearing it.

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