winXP pro slow startup

[wolf20]

When i boot up xp and my background and icons appears, i can't do much untill the window mesenger icon appears in the task bar? This normally takes about a min, i have XP freshly installed and i don't have any other programs installed on it?

Any1 know how i can decrease that 1 min wait?

Thanks
wolf20

[BipolarBill]

How many other icons are appearing before the MSN one? In other words, do you have a lot of useless **** running in the background? Things like RealPlayer, ICQ, Creative stuff...you know - fluff.

If so, use MSCONFIG.EXE > Startup to idle some of those processes.

[Alnath]

also use these http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100910 to shut some rubbish down

[rockjockjared]

Another good place to check is www.tweakxp.com there is a good walk through about adjusting the read ahead on your ram...makes XP boot up quite a bit faster! For instance from power button to no hd activity in XP takes my computer about 15secs :) Plus I don't have anything in my startup...so that's helpful too.


Jared

[wolf20]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the response, i'll check the info on thoses links as soon as i get home and post the results here.

Bill: i just installed XP 2 days ago and nothing yet. I don't even have an anti virus running at the moment (didn't realise norton 2001 doesn't works on xp).

Wolf20

[BipolarBill]

Was this an upgrade or fresh installation? What CPU/Memory combo are you running?

[wolf20]

Like i said in my first post, it is a fresh intsallation. Currently running a P3 800, 128 Mhz. My friend on a 500 seems to have his xp load faster, but is not running XP pro.

I switched off some of the services Alnath suggested and it now the messenger icons instantly when my background loads and it take me 45 sec before i can actually do anything. Gonna look at the whole list when i get home today.

Thanks for th help guys,
Wolf20