Is there anyway to speed up the loading of personal settings

• eagle

  9 Aug 07, 12:39

  When I start up win xp, personal settings takes about a minute to fully load.
  
  I have disabled many startups and services... Is there any other way that I can reduce the time taken?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  9 Aug 07, 14:23

  1. Clear your junk. Uninstall programs that you hardly use to free up space. Not enough hard disk space will slow down Windows.
  
  Also clear any temporary files.
  
  2. Defragment your hard disk. If your files are all over the place, Windows is going all over the place to piece up your files and it can take a long time.
  
  3. Have more RAM. Windows is a RAM sucker despite having lots of tweaks.
  
  4. Don't have a wallpaper. Nice cool looking wallpapers only slows down the system. Plain colour will do.
• eagle

  9 Aug 07, 18:17

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  1. Clear your junk. Uninstall programs that you hardly use to free up space. Not enough hard disk space will slow down Windows.
  
  Also clear any temporary files.
  
  2. Defragment your hard disk. If your files are all over the place, Windows is going all over the place to piece up your files and it can take a long time.
  
  3. Have more RAM. Windows is a RAM sucker despite having lots of tweaks.
  
  4. Don't have a wallpaper. Nice cool looking wallpapers only slows down the system. Plain colour will do.

  All done except for RAM... Waiting for my RAM order...
  
  Loading of personal settings is also affected by RAM?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  9 Aug 07, 20:13

  Originally posted by eagle:

  All done except for RAM... Waiting for my RAM order...
  
  Loading of personal settings is also affected by RAM?

  Ya... all these things have to be loaded before Windows can work... although in reality you are able to use it before it loads finish...