Any way or Any Software to Make My Computer Load Up Faster?

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Peachesbackwards

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For the purpose of this thread, just to avoid any misunderstanding, let's assume by load up time I mean the time between restarting/booting up your computer, having all your programs load up so you can actually start to run an application like Word or Internet Explorer. I have XP SP 2 & have Norton's AntiVirus. Ialready regularly MSCONFIG to get rid of any programs in the start up, run several anti adware programs, defrag every few weeks, etc. & it still takes around 6-7 minutes to make computer is ready to use. Oh, yeah, its 1 Gig Memory, 105 Gigs HD (with about 90 gigs free) & I think Pentium 4. I do have alot of shortcuts for my Programs on my Desktop. Is that what's causing things to not load up faster? My hard drive is fine & I've rarely had any freezes.

Is this time normal or are there any programs or tweaks you'd recommend to make my load up time faster? Thanks for any advice.
 
http://www.auslogics.com/registry-defrag/index.php

This will compact and defrag your registry, but first.

Download CCleaner and go to 'issues' it will scan you computer for erroneous registry entries and delete them.

http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10669303.html?tag=lst-0-1

Instead of norton, use AVAST, it is free and has regular updates and provides excellent protection.

http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

The step by step installation instructions are there, make sure to register, it is legit, no spam. You get a free 1 year subscription with registration. Norton is a resource hog, not always bad but in this particular instance it is.

Also do a full system scan with this.

http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=1063940...://www.download.com/3001-8022_4-10639408.html

This site also has tweaks and performance enhancing guides, it is very useful but be careful.

http://tweakxp.com/
 
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