Originally posted by dragnandy:

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i got this laptop, running XP and it use to run fine. but recently its been taking forever to load up, atleast 5-10 just to get it to the normal screen, as in wallpaper, desktop icons, and such all loaded. it use to be a lot faster and stuff, but it has slowed down. so im thinking that either i should get more ram, or that theres to many processes starting up in the boot and takes a longer time to load up or something.

so pretty much, i just want to know if theres a way to speed up the loading time of starting the laptop.

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Originally posted by Spenman91:

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I would go to "Start", "Run", then type "msconfig", then go to the "startup" tab, and then either deselect all of the programs you don't want to open at startup, or select "disable all" and then go back and enable the programs you want to run at startup.

The icons by the clock work too, but sometimes that doesn't get all of the smaller programs that run in the background, such as "Microsoft Office Helper" or something similar to that. "Disable all" stops of all programs starting up except for the ones needed for windows.

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thanks, there are stuff that im not sure what it is. does anybody know what hpztsb04,hphmon03,regvga,dumprep 0 -k, and so on. the ones that i know need to be on, so i ended up checking nothing. lol

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