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Why does it take so long to boot messenger plus on bootup of a PIII 450 PC?

What do you mean by that? The msgplus.exe just takes a few milliseconds to do what it has to do, then, it stays idle for all the rest of its life .

Type msconfig into run and go to the startup tab you probly have alot of other programs and processes starting, My computer takes a long time on a P4 Celeron D but i have things like norton av and norton is loading and their resource hogs.

Autoruns will give you a more comprehensive list of what's executing at startup.

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Originally posted by Patchou
What do you mean by that? The msgplus.exe just takes a few milliseconds to do what it has to do, then, it stays idle for all the rest of its life .

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untrue, on old systems it slows down a lot my pc, the p3 500 mhz one, had like 64 mb of ram and it lagged because of plus. and yes it was CLEAN.

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition

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Originally posted by Patchou
What do you mean by that? The msgplus.exe just takes a few milliseconds to do what it has to do, then, it stays idle for all the rest of its life .

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untrue, on old systems it slows down a lot my pc, the p3 500 mhz one, had like 64 mb of ram and it lagged because of plus. and yes it was CLEAN.

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what patchou says is true. msgplus.exe has only to set a courple of hooks and read a few registry entries. nothing more. I don't notice any boot speed drecrease in my P-II 266 MHz

I agree with Choli, a friend of mine has a PII 350 MHz with Windows XP and Plus doesn't make it take longer at startup...
Please check what other stuff is running at startup with Autoruns.