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by yiotie

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1. When i boot my PC it boots OK, but it takes ages for the icons to appear on the screen.
Any ideas?
2. The clock keeps going wrong, within a day, after i 've set the right time.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

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by jasonschambers

you might want to check what is coming on at startup. If you have a lot of programs running when the computer first boots in can tak along time for the machine to finally come on.

2. If you clock is losing time or just a few minutes here and there, than you bios battery in your computer may be dying. You can replace them for like 5 bucks. Also there is a freeare program that will automatically adjust your time. you can get it at download.com and the file is called sync atomic clock

by ann777

1) Are you on a network? Authentication takes a while in a network environment with 2000. Remove Office toolbar from your Startup folder (and Office FastFind as well). Determine which services you need to be running and turn the others to "manual".

2) If you go to a dos prompt and the time is correct.... then look at MSKB Q321290 (you can input just that at the address bar of MSIE and it'll go right there... MSKB Q321290 )and fix your windows 2000 w32time parameter. I edited out thatregistry key and Win2000 has been keeping perfect time since.

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