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hey, is there anyway to decrease the loading time of windows XP, u know what i'm talking about ! this loading bar, and repeats and repeats, here it repears 15 times,!.

and why the reason for that!

no i dont think there is

i mean by decreasing, solving the issue, fixing what makes XP take longger time than usual

Just found a couple of sites which may help

Speeding Up Windows XP Boot Up and Shutdown

Improving Windows XP boot time

A lot of things cause slow XP loading times.

Memory is the main one... remember that XP uses alot, and for optimal operating speed of it, you should have 512Mb (my friend has 256Mb, and it takes about 10mins to load, as well as it being slow elsewhere). XP eats memory for its brekafast.

Having loads of fonts installed can make it slow on boot-up too.

Also I have heard people say that keeping the HDD defragged helps it go faster, but then an equal number of people say defragging makes no difference to the computers performance.

I have had a similar problem previously, and defragging I have always found does help. I have 512MB DDR RAM, The main issue for me though was my antivirus startup task - I have tried many anti-virus's and many (Norton, Panda ect.) have added a mass of time to startup, my solution was to switch to Avast! - It seems to be just as good for me.

well i have 760 of ram, and i have about 1200 fonts

and for the sites mentioned up, i have already read the same things, but nothing worked with me
and i always delete the preftch, bootvis was already downloaded since months but i haven't use it yet hehe

by the way Kipper2258 what is Avast ? an antivirus ?

Yes - The (free) home verson is available from http://www.avast.com/

But my main advise to you is to look through your fonts folder and remove any fonts you do not commonly use - I would try and get it down to around 400 fonts or less.

but the fonts i use them for  designing, is there anyway to use them from another folder i know it's impossible !!

Well - No, there really isn't anyway to remove fonts from startup as far as I know, and even if you could, it would have to load them at some stage if you wanted to use them.
My view is that if you need the fonts, then so be it, but if you have that many fonts and 760 RAM, you are not doing too badly, I accept that 15 is quite alot, but it could be alot worce. Maybe you couls have a seperate machine for designing, so you have a shorter startup time for your main machine, but as far as I know, I'm afraid it is something you are going to have to live with. You could give a defrag a go though, because if you have a few items on startup then it should have a noticable effect.