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very slow at boot up and shut down
Using a Dell 4100, 1 gig PIII, 80 gig hard drive, Win 2k pro, 512 megs ram. This trusted machine is slowing down. I defrag and scandisk regularly (every week to two weeks) but boot up time is getting closer to 3 minutes. Where would I check and what would I check for to speed this up? I use StartCPL to minimize the number of programs that launch at startup. I looked in Services under Control Panel, and there are only about 40 applications listed and most look they are OS items. I have GoGoData, All-in-one SECRETMAKER, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, HDD Temperature, Internet Explorer, and Firefox launching at startup. -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add the number 35 after bullseye. |
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Right click on the C: drive icon, click Properties, then click the Disk Cleanup
button. Get rid of all the junk there and see what happens. If you still think the system is too slow, enter %TEMP% in the Run dialog box and delete all the files there. Get rid of the stuff to launch IE and Firefox at startup. They hog precious memory with only a small payback in speed... Ben Myers On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:05:51 GMT, bullseye wrote: Using a Dell 4100, 1 gig PIII, 80 gig hard drive, Win 2k pro, 512 megs ram. This trusted machine is slowing down. I defrag and scandisk regularly (every week to two weeks) but boot up time is getting closer to 3 minutes. Where would I check and what would I check for to speed this up? I use StartCPL to minimize the number of programs that launch at startup. I looked in Services under Control Panel, and there are only about 40 applications listed and most look they are OS items. I have GoGoData, All-in-one SECRETMAKER, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, HDD Temperature, Internet Explorer, and Firefox launching at startup. -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add the number 35 after bullseye. |
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I had done that already. Ben Myers wrote: Right click on the C: drive icon, click Properties, then click the Disk Cleanup button. Get rid of all the junk there and see what happens. If you still think the system is too slow, enter %TEMP% in the Run dialog box and delete all the files there. Get rid of the stuff to launch IE and Firefox at startup. They hog precious memory with only a small payback in speed... Ben Myers On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:05:51 GMT, bullseye wrote: Using a Dell 4100, 1 gig PIII, 80 gig hard drive, Win 2k pro, 512 megs ram. This trusted machine is slowing down. I defrag and scandisk regularly (every week to two weeks) but boot up time is getting closer to 3 minutes. Where would I check and what would I check for to speed this up? I use StartCPL to minimize the number of programs that launch at startup. I looked in Services under Control Panel, and there are only about 40 applications listed and most look they are OS items. I have GoGoData, All-in-one SECRETMAKER, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, HDD Temperature, Internet Explorer, and Firefox launching at startup. -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add the number 35 after bullseye. -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add a 35 (the number) after bullseye. |
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Using a Dell 4100, 1 gig PIII, 80 gig hard drive, Win 2k pro, 512 megs
ram. This trusted machine is slowing down. I defrag and scandisk regularly (every week to two weeks) but boot up time is getting closer to 3 minutes. Try CrapCleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com - it finds quite a lot of clutter the first time you run it (in my case 60Mb) - but its usually something more manageable now, about 5Mb a time... Have you scanned for spy/malware ? I`ve got some pointers on my website http://www.coreutilities.co.uk Its well worth disabling McAfee temporarily and running the Sysclean virus scanner - its a very good "one shot" virus checker from Trend - its linked from the bottom of the second page, and uses the latest virus database their full commercial product uses. Other than that, SpywareBlaster, Spybot S&D, CWShredder, and last but not least if you see no difference, HijackThis! (when used in conjunction with http://www.hijackthis.de it can help you check out suspicious entries quite quickly, just take the results with a pinch of salt and use some common sense / google if you`re not sure) How about clearing crap from the registry ? - ccleaner has an option to look for "issues" (like missing file associations), but others like EasyCleaner (if you can find an older non-commercial version) can do a better job. I can send an older version if you drop me a line per my sig below... -- Please add the word "newsgroup" in the subject line of personal emails **** My email address includes "ngspamtrap" and " **** |
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EasyCleaner 2.0 is still a free download. I use it a lot. Very nice bit of
software... Ben Myers On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:52:02 +0100, Colin Wilson wrote: Using a Dell 4100, 1 gig PIII, 80 gig hard drive, Win 2k pro, 512 megs ram. This trusted machine is slowing down. I defrag and scandisk regularly (every week to two weeks) but boot up time is getting closer to 3 minutes. Try CrapCleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com - it finds quite a lot of clutter the first time you run it (in my case 60Mb) - but its usually something more manageable now, about 5Mb a time... Have you scanned for spy/malware ? I`ve got some pointers on my website http://www.coreutilities.co.uk Its well worth disabling McAfee temporarily and running the Sysclean virus scanner - its a very good "one shot" virus checker from Trend - its linked from the bottom of the second page, and uses the latest virus database their full commercial product uses. Other than that, SpywareBlaster, Spybot S&D, CWShredder, and last but not least if you see no difference, HijackThis! (when used in conjunction with http://www.hijackthis.de it can help you check out suspicious entries quite quickly, just take the results with a pinch of salt and use some common sense / google if you`re not sure) How about clearing crap from the registry ? - ccleaner has an option to look for "issues" (like missing file associations), but others like EasyCleaner (if you can find an older non-commercial version) can do a better job. I can send an older version if you drop me a line per my sig below... -- Please add the word "newsgroup" in the subject line of personal emails **** My email address includes "ngspamtrap" and " **** |
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EasyCleaner 2.0 is still a free download. I use it a lot. Very nice bit of
software... Ben Myers Last time I looked he wanted a subscription to grab it - I might update mine then :-) - thanks for the info -- Please add the word "newsgroup" in the subject line of personal emails **** My email address includes "ngspamtrap" and " **** |
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Remove all autostarting programs and see what happens. If it improves,
re-enable them one by one until you know what is causing it. Be sure to enable the AV and firewall first (and quickly). Also, get SpyBot Search & Destroy, Ad Aware and Spy Sweeper. The first two are free and the last is good for one update and 30 days. Install them, update them for the latest signatures and run scans. I think you'll be surprised at what they find. -- Regards, Hank Arnold "bullseye" wrote in message ... Using a Dell 4100, 1 gig PIII, 80 gig hard drive, Win 2k pro, 512 megs ram. This trusted machine is slowing down. I defrag and scandisk regularly (every week to two weeks) but boot up time is getting closer to 3 minutes. Where would I check and what would I check for to speed this up? I use StartCPL to minimize the number of programs that launch at startup. I looked in Services under Control Panel, and there are only about 40 applications listed and most look they are OS items. I have GoGoData, All-in-one SECRETMAKER, ZoneAlarm, McAfee, HDD Temperature, Internet Explorer, and Firefox launching at startup. -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add the number 35 after bullseye. |
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I ran CCleaner (deleting over 200MB), Ad-Aware, Spybot (without the Teatimer as it interferes with McAfee), defragged and scanned. Ad-Aware and Spybot's scans came clean. I was unable to download Easycleaner (but CCleaner seems to do the same?). The system is showing a minor improvement (a faster shutdown) but boot up still takes over 2 minutes, sometimes 2 and a half. Strange. Thanking all for the continuing feedback. Hank Arnold wrote: Remove all autostarting programs and see what happens. If it improves, re-enable them one by one until you know what is causing it. Be sure to enable the AV and firewall first (and quickly). Also, get SpyBot Search & Destroy, Ad Aware and Spy Sweeper. The first two are free and the last is good for one update and 30 days. Install them, update them for the latest signatures and run scans. I think you'll be surprised at what they find. -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add a 35 (the number) after bullseye. |
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I ran CCleaner (deleting over 200MB), Ad-Aware, Spybot (without the
Teatimer as it interferes with McAfee), defragged and scanned. Ad-Aware and Spybot's scans came clean. I was unable to download Easycleaner (but CCleaner seems to do the same?). Easycleaner has a registry cleaner that can clear out a few more redundant entries than ccleaner does - I just a side-by-side comparison, and ccleaner actually highlighted more to delete, but it was highlighting different things, so it might be worth trying both anyway ! The system is showing a minor improvement (a faster shutdown) but boot up still takes over 2 minutes, sometimes 2 and a half. Strange. Thanking all for the continuing feedback. We`re getting somewhere at least :-} Did you try Sysclean at all ? -- Please add the word "newsgroup" in the subject line of personal emails **** My email address includes "ngspamtrap" and " **** |
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I went to this site again http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/dwnloads.htm and downloaded EasyCleaner again and this time the install was a success. It is running now so we shall see. I installed Sysclean but it requires a few steps that I have found difficult to follow. However, CCleaner is aggressive. At several websites I subscribe to, I lost saved cookies and settings after the cleaning.... Thanks again for following up. Colin Wilson wrote: I ran CCleaner (deleting over 200MB), Ad-Aware, Spybot (without the Teatimer as it interferes with McAfee), defragged and scanned. Ad-Aware and Spybot's scans came clean. I was unable to download Easycleaner (but CCleaner seems to do the same?). Easycleaner has a registry cleaner that can clear out a few more redundant entries than ccleaner does - I just a side-by-side comparison, and ccleaner actually highlighted more to delete, but it was highlighting different things, so it might be worth trying both anyway ! The system is showing a minor improvement (a faster shutdown) but boot up still takes over 2 minutes, sometimes 2 and a half. Strange. Thanking all for the continuing feedback. We`re getting somewhere at least :-} Did you try Sysclean at all ? -- If you wish to reply using e-mail, please add a 35 (the number) after bullseye. |
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