subject: How to Speed Up Windows XP at Startup [print this page] How to Speed Up Windows XP at Startup How to Speed Up Windows XP at Startup
Speed up your Windows startup would be the present demand of yours, as you are seeing continuous slowing of your computer. You can't really afford your computer to be slow if you are an internet user, it can really turn out to be a costly thing. There are various options that can be tried in order to speed up your Windows startup. You can surely try these tips that are suggested here in order to increase the speed of your Windows startup.
1)Disable unnecessary services.
When starting up Windows XP, it will recall kinds of services to maintain its proper running. But lots of them are not needed at all rather than waste valuable memory and system resources. By disabling them, we can release more than 70MB memory and speed up Windows XP at startup. Simply go to "Run", type "services.msc" and press "Enter" to open "Services". Here, you can see all the services and disable the services that you do not need.
2)When there are abnormal shutdowns, or reboots because of system crashes recording in Windows logs, the system will automatically run a disk defragmentation when starting up the computer the next time. By default, it will wait about 10 seconds before scanning each partition. If you have to wait 10 seconds before the scan which plus the scanning time, it will be a very longer time. So you can reset the waiting time before the scanning, or directly cancel the scan to each partition to speed up Windows XP at startup. Just go to "Start"-> Run ->type "chkntfs / t:0", that is set the waiting time to 0. If you want to ignore the scanning to a specific drive when booting up the computer, for example, C drive, you can type "chkntfs /x c:".It will perfectly make your Windows startup fast
3)Fix registry errorsto speed up Windows XP. We all know that registry is the main soul of the computer, which decides the proper running of the Windows and programs installed. If there is something wrong, it will make the computer to run slowly or seriously results in frequent blue screen of death or complete system crashes. By fixing the registry errors, you can maintain system stability and make the system to much easier to reach what it exactly want and then speed it up.
If you still find it difficult to speed up slow Windows XP, I highly recommend that you should run a best registry cleaner to make Windows startup faster again.
