Slow Windows XP Startup

February 16th, 2009 Posted in Registry Cleaner Articles

So, your computer is no more then a year old and yet it takes minutes to boot? Nothing new under sun. The Windows XP slow startup is too anyone working with Windows on a daily basis as for example a technician, old news. It all boils down to how Windows XP handles all the daily tasks it has to perform.

Slow Windows XP Startup

Whenever you perform a task in Windows there are a myriad of different actions taking place, ranging from writing temporary files to handling entries in the registry. One of the most common reasons for you waiting forever for your Windows to start is these registry entries. Despite Windows trying to handle the build-up of these entries over time, lacking certain features it will fail, leaving thousands upon thousands of obsolete entries.

What you want to do is to acquire a third party software that can handle the problems arising from the daily build-up. There are a host of these kinds of software available, so finding the right one to fix your Windows XP slow startup problem can be quite a task. What you want is a software that can handle two specific abilities, registry scanning (and cleaning) and startup program managing.

A third party registry scanner will, opposite to Windows XP search and find most, if not any, obsolete, missing or corrupt registry entry. This way, you will never have any entries in you registry that during boot will cause any errors forcing Windows to go through unnecessary routines trying to fix what is most likely not broken, just obsolete.

Secondly, a start-up program manager will help you specify which certain software that should start during boot. Let me explain. During a computers lifetime you will install and de install many kind of software. Some you use on a daily basis, some you dont, you might think. Thing is that many of today’s software will put itself as auto start during boot, acting behind the scenes until you do start it. These is mainly due to performance reasons such as as faster start when you do use the program but in the end it will render your Windows XP startup slow.

So, all in all, find the right software with the specific features and you will be all set, bringing Slow Windows XP startup back to the way it used to be. My tips would either be to check out my reviews here on the right, get a bigger pictures and choose one that fit your needs. Or, for a quick fix, check out my registry cleaner overview.

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