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What factors can affect how fast or slow your PC starts up. I've noticed that my PC takes about 10mins for everything to startup. I have chosen programs that i wanted to start when windows is started through msconfig and the programs i have now are essential. I know that having a different visual style can slow it down, (by different i mean not a windows default theme) but having the theme only made it slower by a few seconds compared to a windows default theme. What can i do to speed up the startup?

Defragment the harddisk and defragment Windows registry (Registry Compactor 1.1 or the new Registry Compressor).

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Originally posted by Reaper
I have chosen programs that i wanted to start when windows is started through msconfig

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Note that msconfig doesn't list in all cases all the startup entries.

You should use AutoRuns which lists all the possible startup entries

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Originally posted by http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=26006&pid=252345 (Cookie's Post)
This program will show you EVERY possible startupline that windows can use... I found MANY dodgy programs with that on various computers where the user though he deleted everything and still some programs started up when they booted... So, just check it out...

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Originally posted by Sunshine
Defragment the harddisk and defragment Windows registry (Registry Compactor 1.1 or the new Registry Compressor).

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i defragment my hard drive and registry every week, so ill carry on doing that

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Originally posted by Mike

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Originally posted by Reaper
I have chosen programs that i wanted to start when windows is started through msconfig

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Note that msconfig doesn't list in all cases all the startup entries.

You should use AutoRuns which lists all the possible startup entries

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Originally posted by http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=26006&pid=252345 (Cookie's Post)
This program will show you EVERY possible startupline that windows can use... I found MANY dodgy programs with that on various computers where the user though he deleted everything and still some programs started up when they booted... So, just check it out...

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ill try that now

[Edit] tried that and its all the stuff i need one plus all the windows/microsoft stuff

You can also disable all unneeded services, take a look here:
http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/servicesxp.htm