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WinME Pauses on bootup

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by george.s.mitchell

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I have WinMe installed on a home made system. Sometimes, not always, it seems to pause when I turn the machine on. When I look at the task manager, it tells me that Exlporer.exe is not responding. Almost always, if I wait, it will come on eventually, but with a pause as long as 30 seconds. Any idea what is causing this? Thanks!

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by b_pope

There are too many possible causes. But you could start with defraging it everyday for a week or so then move to doing it less often (twice a week). Empty your temp files, clear your cookies, cut down on the number of programs loading at start-up. You can also compact & defrag your registry once in awhile START+RUN type scanreg_/opt_/fix
thats a space_ after the g & t.

Lots of tweaking to do with WinME to keep it running smoothly, been running it on my one PC for 18 months start-up takes less than 45sec shutdown under 10sec, wasn't always like that.

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