When I boot my laptop, it takes over 3 minutes from the time I click my user button until the hard drive stops loading. I have a number of programs in my Startup menu, but don't I need to have most of them there? Like my Sygate firewall, my Norton and AVG anti-virus programs, etc. I also have some periferals in the menu - like my printer, etc. Should it take that long to complete boot up? I run XP Home on my Dell, which has a Pentium 4 (1.7Gh) and 256 Ram. I regularly run Disk Cleanup, etc. I empty my Temp Internet Files daily, etc. Just not sure why it takes so long to boot.
Any ideas?
gibby26
Any ideas?
gibby26