Slow Startup

[vicky116]

my win 98 and win xp system startup is very slow!

what can i do?

 

[Ste]

you could start by telling us your System components, Your Anti virus and applications that start on start up.

Try Disabling unneeded ones. I think you can use MSconfig with 98 and disable things on startup tab.

 

[vicky116]

well there area a lot of unecessary ones in win98 which i can disable.

but win xp i will have to see.

if i use msconfig in win xp & go to startup tab i can see about 23 items!

i use antivir. i also have norton2003. but i dont know what some of those names mean or signify!???

 

[Ste]

Disable as many ones in 98 as you can then see how fast it boots.

 

[EricB]

ditch norton

 

[vicky116]

oh should i really ditch Norton in the sense uninstall it!???

but then i will be left with only antivir!

is that a good idea?

 

[EricB]

norton is a resource hog. it slows your system too much. it also doesn't detects some viruses

 

[vicky116]

any alternative antivirus suggestions?

 

[Juice Daddy]

avg antivirus

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

Edit: never run two or more antivirus programs at once...

 

[Ste]

I agree with Everyone. Norton has to be the slowest AV out there. AVG or Avast will really Speed things up.