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[artcoder]

I timed how long it took for my laptop to boot up. After pressing the power button it took 115 sec (almost two minutes) to get to the login screen. It took 230 second (almost 4 minutes) from power up to the time I got Google on my IE browser.

That seems very slow to me. I remember that when I bought it several years back, it felt very fast. Don't know if it has gotten progressively slower or if life is just getting faster (or maybe I'm getting more impatient).

I wonder if everybody else has a faster computer than I do. If your is slower, let me know and I will give you this free gift shown here. PM me with your postal address. Do not post your address here, obviously. If you just want bragging rights instead of the free gift, that's fine too.

First of all, I don't think there are that many people with computers slower than mine. And secondly, I got plenty of these "gifts" to go around.

[Donna]

I have never actually timed my start up but I rarely turn my PC off to time it lol, good luck with your quest and whom ever gets the cards.

[adio38]

Funny this topic comes up, I work in a computer shop. Artcoder, first question to ask yourself how old is your computer, you said several years old, chances are the Ram or Processor are out of date. Also was Operating System are you running, that will tell me a lot also. Have you ever had it cleaned? For example the startup on your computer can become bogged down when you install different programs that may run in the background. Message me with this info, I will try to help you with this problem.

Adio

[l3lueMage]

Although my computer is slow at times, glitches a whole lot, has tons of strange bug thingies and errors...It starts up surprisingly fast...
I timed it, it took 45sec to get to login screen, and 45 seconds to fully start up after login...though thats slow to some people with their super duper $4000.00 computers, I say mine is pretty fast considering its like 4years old and only has P4 2.66Ghz and 1GB DDR Ram low quality ram might I add...

[sez318]

Ive not timed mine yet but i know for sure mines ALOT slower than yours, It takes aprox 4mins for mine to even get to the windows loading screen. But thats because its pretty messed up and i need a new one

[Atomica]

I think laptops usually do get slower over years, they are a wierd sort indeed. although i wouldnt mind one*
No worries about loading time for my comp. though. Takes aprox. 15 secs. oh yeah. and its about 2.5 years old.

[syndrome]

I think I'm slowly killing mine. It is an ok computer but I'm hurting it with all the large size programs and files I have I think I'm about to make it worse with Half Life 2 and Counterstrike source which I'm geting

[ktd]

Mine is like done. This thing takes about 2 minutes to get to login screen the the fan doesn't even work. The battery is blown. A screw fell out of it yesterday. The touchpad doesn't work. The lights don't work. The side buttons don't work. The start button just works. Time to login on my computer is fast because it will only load system tools

[l3lueMage]

Well I did huge cleaning, got rid of AIM, Yahoo, MSN and just downloaded trillian, uses less space in the system tray like some of you mentioned had way to much junk there, uninstalled so much more stuff and now I have like half the stuff in the tray...Bought Norton again Scanned got rid of 2 adaware things tahts all I had surprisingly

And well now my computer startsup like zoooooooooom right when I logon like 5seconds later its done XD

[blainex]

Guys. none of your computers are slow 4 minutes meh that's short mine takes like 20 minutes plus another 5 for firefox to open then it goes fast then it's slow again i hate it the computer is almost as old as me.. i'm only joking but it's about 2 years old oh well

[NGPixel]

Do you have an antivirus or internet security softwares? Just funny to see how startup time can get twice long just with installing these...

My computer: 20 seconds without Norton Internet Security 2006
Else: 1:30-3 mins...

[l3lueMage]

For me my if I get a new computer, my old one blows up and stops working, but for some reason my old one suddenly runs super fast, I timed it, from the time from pressing the power button to the time logging in and loading everything is about 50seconds, P3 733Mhz 128MB of ram...yea that computer was good and always ran fast until I got this computer then it slowed down for about a year, lately its been running so fast all of a sudden. Anyways that computer is faster than this one...just cant handle all the programs I have open, and also saying its 8 years old.

[-Michael-]

My computer runs nice now

30 seconds to get to the logon screen, another 20 to log on.

[artcoder]

Thanks for everyone's input. I have PMed those who had a slower computer than mine so that I can send them the cards. If anyone else think they qualify, PM me.

Yes, I have all those anti-spy, anti-virus running (which I think eveyone should have running). It is a P3 and 1GHz on WindowsXP. But I think my main problem is that I only have 256KB of RAM. No point in installing more RAM now. I hope to get another computer after Window Vista comes out. Plus it's a hazzle to install RAM on laptop (don't even know if it has space).

[Shiv]

Format your PC!

Make sure you have backups of what you need, drivers, software etc...

If you dont want to format then do diagnostics, defrag, disk clean up, etc... If you haven't got a spyware/adware revomal tool, download a free one (download.com), get a registry cleaner (again download.com). Things like this should help you.

You may also want to check out what programs and services start up when windows does, I only have my AV and Firewall starting up when windows does and I have disabled or set most of my serivices on manual as you dont need most of them!

This is just a fraction of the things you can do, hope this helps.

Shiv.