WinXP bootup time

[hypernatic.net]

Howdy,

Question: Suddenly WinXP takes about 50-60 secs to boot up, this used to be approx 20secs... Any idea how I can speed this up?

I have an AMD XP 1700+ - 512MB RAM - 60GB 7200RPM Seagate

Thanks

 

[Vibe]

Very odd I suggest you clean your harddrive from junk and then give it a try

 

[Anjay]

Weird, I wonder why it did that?

Your system seems to be quite good, so I wonder why it now takes so long to load up. I'd do as Vibe says, clear out your hard drive from all the useless programs and files on it. I'd go through the whole system systematically and work through it all, removing all old files that you don't use anymore and same for old programs. When I did that to my current PC, I found I still had very old versions of SmartFTP and even Trillian on, which neither I use now, so of course I deleted 'em both.