- Service Pack 2
- Posted by Gio on October 24th, 2005
My computer is taking longer to start up since i installed service pack 2
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Gio
- Posted by R. McCarty on October 24th, 2005
That is a normal/temporary condition. Service Pack installs replace 5000+
system modules. Your XP partition is very fragmented. After 4 reboots &
use of your programs, XP will recreate Prefetching data and the Layout.Ini.
During a "Idle" time, the PC will perform a partial defrag and the system
performance should improve.
"Gio" <Gio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My computer is taking longer to start up since i installed service pack 2
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> Gio
- Posted by Rock on October 25th, 2005
Gio wrote:
> My computer is taking longer to start up since i installed service pack 2
How long has it been? It can take several days and 3 or 4 reboots for
it to speed up. First defrag. The boot prefetch will kick in after the
3 rd reboot. It takes several days for the prefetch folder to be
rebuilt. And the in built optimization kicks in every 3 days. After
that defrag again. If the system is still slow after some days try some
clean boot troubleshooting to see what may be hanging up on startup. A
program may need to be uninstalled / reinstalled:
How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
How to perform a clean boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353
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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
