Speed up Computer, Boot and Shutdown Time

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Hello, Do any forum members, know to speed up your computer and make computer
boot and shutdown in 25 s
 
Hello, Do any forum members,
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First, note that this is not a forum. It's a newsgroup. You are using
the awful web interface to participate in this newsgroup--it's the
slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method of using the newsgroups
there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as
Outlook Express, which comes with Windows XP, or Windows Mail, which
comes with Vista. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

know to speed up your computer
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How to speed up the computer (or even whether you *can* speed up the
computer) depends on how slow it is and what the problem is that's
causing the slowness.

So first, tell us how slow it is, what your hardware configuration is,
and what applications you run.

The most common cause of a slow computer these days is malware
infection, and unless you use really good software to give you
confidence that you are not infected, malware infection would be my
first guess as to what your problems are.

So also tell us what anti-virus and anti-spyware programs you are
running. Are they kept up to date?

After malware infection, the next most common cause of slowness is
some of the programs that are starting automatically, and running
in the background; they may be hurting performance severely. See below
for info on this.

and make computer
boot and shutdown in 25 s
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Whether that's possible or not depends at least in part on some of the
answers to the questions above. My personal view is that the attention
many people pay to how long it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming
that the computer's speed is otherwise satisfactory, it may not be
worth worrying about. Most people start their computers once a day or
even less frequently. In the overall scheme of things, even a few
minutes to start up isn't very important. Personally I power on my
computer when I get up in the morning, then go get my coffee. When I
come back, it's done booting. I don't know how long it took to boot
and I don't care.

However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what
programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them
from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start
automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not
just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped
that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run
line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to
start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these with google searches and asking about
specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
 
A Big Help said:
Hello, Do any forum members, know to speed up your computer and make
computer
boot and shutdown in 25 s
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Not a forum, BBS or otherwise. Its a public newsgroup run on a genuine news
server. See "usenet" for further clarification.

Regarding speeding up "your computer" meaning the reader/me, certainly. My
goal has never been to see how quickly to bootup and shutdown in one fell
swoop. There's no way of knowing when windows is finished booting all
without aids, and that takes additional time to establish for certainty.
And in the end, with just the operating system (XP) running on the PC for a
boot/shutdown race, does nothing for me.

If you want to see speed, run MSDOS 6.22 with empty config.sys and
autoexec.bat files. When you see the "C:" prompt, manually turn off the PC.
(6.22 doesn't need to close anything before turning off the PC) Don't pee
your pants when you see your stopwatch. That is, if your "advanced" PC can
run that operating system.

Everyone be real quiet now. He may go away fascinated with his new speed
toy....
--
Dave

CDOs are how we got here.
A modified version, new taxes in the future, is how Congress will get us
out?
 
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