crazydj

Hi. I have an IBM ThinkPad R31 running on XP Pro and 256MB PC-133 SD RAM.

In the recent few months, about 6 months or so, my laptop has ultra long start up times, like 20 mins to fully start up but after that, its bearable but still slow. I also tried experimenting here and there and also unchecked every box in "startup in msconfig and running processes. Still, although the start up time has been reduced, it is not significant enough. Startup time have been reduced by only a few minutes. There were only a few essential running processes. Is there a way, other than reformating in order for it to perform like it should? Thanks.

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FaLLeNAn9eL

This might seem like a very cliche answer but have you scanned for viruses, spyware, the whole shi-bang?

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SZayat

• It might be malware. Do a full scan with Ad-Aware.
• Use CCleaner to delete all temp files.
• Defrag your hard disk.
• Restart.
• Try to get more RAM. In my humble opinion 512MB is the absolute minimum for Windows XP.

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startekee

more ram. you only have 256mb of ram and they run at 133mhz.

mz-n10

sounds like a dead hd....

xypex982

# It might be malware. Do a full scan with Ad-Aware.
# Use CCleaner to delete all temp files.
# Defrag your hard disk.
# Restart.


I would do that, if that dosen't work you may need a new hd I know my laptop (the hp one) did the exact thing and with a few weeks the hd was dead.

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crazydj

Well, i regularly scan it with AVG:AS, AVG:AV, run CCleaner everytime i start and shut it down, run JKDefrag at least once a week. But with 256 RAM a year ago, it was smooth and was running quite fast. How?

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calvin924597

Try reformatting if you can.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 that is about the same age, and I have to reformat once a year to keep it running fast.