Over the last 2 weeks Windows XP has taken progressively longer and longer to start - it now takes several minutes to actually get going. It shows the ''loading'' page with the bar for a short time and then flicks to what will be the desktop but shows only the background and then takes ages to put all the icons up. I haven't loaded any new software that would account for this and One Care Live detects no spyware or adware. I'd appreciate any help.
Windows XP start time is getting longer and longer - why?computer security
Hello,
(ANS) This sounds like a dirty windows registry database, windows XP does take quite a long time to load up at the best of times. Why? if you understand the loading up process its actually pretty complex, windows has to use NTLDR to detect your machines hardware, then it has to load each device driver associated with each peice of hardware, after this it loads from the registry database, the individual users profile which iis also held within the registry. The user profile defines things like, desktop wallpaper, desktop icons, which applications you have on the programs menu, screen colours %26 screen preferences,etc. all of this has to be loaded from the settings within the registry. If software is load and then unisnstalled it can leave redundant seetings %26 values within the registry and these can cause problems at a later time or might just slow things down.
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