slow on starting up

[joan]

[my computer is very s;ow on starting up..It takes about 4mins to get where I need to log on the web.....My sons is on in a flash...How can I speed it up?

[joan]

[my computer is very s;ow on starting up..It takes about 4mins to get where I need to log on the web.....My sons is on in a flash...How can I speed it up?

[snowmonkey]

first start with you FOUR identical posts.....posting more then once is not going to help

in regards to your computer being slow on startup......What type of computer is it ? How much RAM do you have ? What gets loaded on startup ? Some info would help kick-start the solution process ....


Cheers

[Miz]

Slow startups are usually due to a lot of "stuff" loading on startup.

Most programs that install themselves to load when Windows starts will give you the option of turning that off from within the program itself. Open each program that's loading on startup...they usually put an icon in the System Tray/Notification Area...and poke around in each one's Options/Preferences/Settings (whatever terminology each uses) for a box to uncheck to disable "load when Windows starts" or "start when Windows loads" or some similar wording.

For those that don't offer a way to turn that off within the program, go to Start>All Programs>Startup and delete the entries there that you know you don't need loading on startup and running all the time.

For any that are left, go to Start>Run, type "msconfig" (without the quotes), click OK. Go to the Startup tab and uncheck everything that you are positive you don't need loading on startup.

Note that as more users learn about msconfig, more software developers write their programs to override or ignore msconfig Startup settings. That's why I recommend disabling loading on startup from within the programs themselves whenever possible.

Also, entries that are unchecked in msconfig's Startup list will not be removed if the program it's related to is uninstalled. Those "orphan" entries bother a lot of people.