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by majic11

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I have got Win XP on a Gagabyte 60XT motherboard with PIII 866, 30 GB H/disk and 256 RAM. The problem is when it starts up (after I enter the password) and goes in to windows I cannot do any thing for 4-5 minutes. The mouse moves around but I cannotstart an appliaction. After 4 minutes or so every thing starts working perfectly fine. Whatever I clicked in those 4 minutes then starts. Nothing is in the startup group, and I have tried a reinstall. Please help

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by joe

Did you try changing the way WinXP logs on to see if that speeds it up? In CONTROL panel under users, try changing the way it logs in. hope that helps.

by aamolina

Windows XP runs many "Services" to start. It is normal a delay before you can start using anything.
In Administrtive Tolls, select Services and look in advance, check one by one what services start automatically, read each one to see which one you can set manual. You may disable some of the services if you are sure that you never use them.

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