"riverman" wrote in message
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"rw" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:

This is new to me. I also have XP, 1.2 gig and 512 megs, and I also
noticed
that my bootup is a lot slower than my desktop, with 256Meg and a
slower
processor. I googled "xp tuner" and got a lot of german stuff. Where
do
I
find more info on tuning my laptop for faster performance?
http://support.microsoft.com/

Go to http://support.microsoft.com/, and then, when you're finished,
come back.


Wow, thanks rw. I looked through that site, but I didn't find any info on
how to make my computer bootup faster. I guess 'tuning' is a rather
general
term; I already know how to do a lot of stuff, but I know there's a lot
more
to it. Maybe I should ask if anyone has specific things I should do to
speed
up my startup time? I already saw Frank's suggestion about disabling
Messenger. Any other things that are obvious to folks that know about
this?

--riverman


Check out a small program called "Tweak XP 3.0.1 Pro" from www.totalidea.com
You might find some tweaks useful.

/Roger
And if you don't already use NTFS then convert.