slow bootup

[penguin]

kinda got a weird question for those of you that are more computer literate than i... in the not to distant past my computer randomly started taking forever to bootup... it gets to the windows screen quick.. but for whatever reason it takes forever to get settled so i can connect to internet things

ive got basically everything that isnt important disabled on startup through msconfig.. but it still doesnt seem to be helping... anybody have any ideas?

[roo]

hmm start the comp go make a sandwich come back and u might be good to go

[Purgatorio]

I'd have to know exactly what your rig'd specs are to help. What is your CPU, RAM, OS, HDD. How many TSR programs do you have running by the time it is done booting? T erminate S tay R esident, (TSR) programs run kinda hidden in stealth mode, eating up resources like Oprah but you can see them on the right side of your task bar by the clock trying to be all slick. The more of those that you have, the more resources you're giving away. I'm running Vista Premium 64bit and one of my sidebar apps is a resource monitor and for 2 days my CPU core 2 was stuck at 87% usage. Finally I got curious and started closing TSRs down. The openoffice quickstart program had a memory leak and was hemmoraging resources.

[XoR]

Try AutoRuns from Microsoft.

[Yazule]

When i boot up slowly I normally go to start>run and then type msconfig this program allows you to turn off programs that autostart at bootup, helps a lot to remove the garbage from that.

[Yazule]

i am dumb, just saw that you used msconfig