gaz1 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 i have a pentium 4 pc,it has 1gb ram and 400 gb hard drive, i have only used about 57gb of hard drive, i have defraged it, the problem is when i first turn it on it akes about 5-6 mins before i can use it,i have about fifty icons on my desktop is that a prob, and about 15 on the task bar is that a prob, this is really begining to bug me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Sounds like you have a lot, and I mean a lot of software starting up with the PC. Maybe if you uninstall some of the programs you no longer use it may help. Failing that a full format/reinstall will help thing out no end. Mine doesn't take this long, but I have ~10 icons in the system tray, ranging from my Blue tooth connection to Zome Alarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 is the 400gb hard drive partitioned at all so say you have 30Gb for the operatins system 300 gb for the software and 70gb for music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 msconfig can alter your start up menu, i am not sure how you get in on xp and 2000 prof but i know you can, do a search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 Sounds like you have a lot, and I mean a lot of software starting up with the PC. Maybe if you uninstall some of the programs you no longer use it may help. Failing that a full format/reinstall will help thing out no end. Mine doesn't take this long, but I have ~10 icons in the system tray, ranging from my Blue tooth connection to Zome Alarm. yeah sounds about right as the task bar menu they come up one by one, i have the reload cd but don,t know how to back up the stuff on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 is the 400gb hard drive partitioned at all so say you have 30Gb for the operatins system 300 gb for the software and 70gb for music? not sure mate, i am a plank when it comes to these things:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 msconfig does work with XP (Just run it from the Run option in the start menu, but I'd go with there has been a load of apps installed over the year(s) and it's just too many things to start. Hopefully your drive is partitions.. 40GB (It's big, why scrimp) and the rest for your data. Then if you do reinstal windows, you don't risk losing your data.. Good luck.. I hate computers.. Guess I shouldn't work with em, or pi$$ my mrs off by spending all my time on em.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 not sure mate, i am a plank when it comes to these things:rolleyes: If you click on my computer, how many drives do you see (Not CD's or DVD drives). If you only have a C drive, it's not partitioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 If you click on my computer, how many drives do you see (Not CD's or DVD drives). If you only have a C drive, it's not partitioned. and im sure ralph will agree with me...400Gb without a partition is definatly going to slow your load time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 If you click on my computer, how many drives do you see (Not CD's or DVD drives). If you only have a C drive, it's not partitioned. c,drive and d,drive both 200gb, but nothing used on d drive, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 As I said I would have made the C Drive 40GB and the D drive the remainder. Then as in this case, you can blitz the C drive and start again with a nice clean install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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