Win 98 start up is soooooo slow!

mike65

Its taking an age to get from push button to desktop these days
with a 1 min pause between Starting Win98 and the dos scroll then another pause of similair length from C:// and the end of dos to the desktop lighting up.

Any thoughts?

Mike.

leeroybrown

Open up regedit (type regedit in the run dialog box) and go to the following two locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion /Run

Delete anything you don't really need. (You should be able to delete them all without doing any damage)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion /Run

The same again.

Those Reg Keys control what apps Windows runs on start up. Also anything in the startup folder of the start menu runs.

Removing them should speed things up a bit.

Fidelis

Ah here, take care with RegEdit... it's evil.

leeroybrown

If he sticks *strictly* to the Run Keys for Win98 in CURRENT_USER and LOCAL_MACHINE no damage will be done.

But be careful anyway

mike65

Cheers leeroybrown, if you dont see me again you'll know I was'nt careful!

Mike.

leeroybrown

Sorry Mike typo in those locations above:
(Should have read over them before posting considering the damage you can do)


Fixed now!

azezil

eh system info, selective startup, disable stuff loik no need for regedit skillz


i've also found that printers can slow ya down if they're on when u start up

mike65

He, he! Its just as well I ignored your advice and used something else - I did a google and someone suggested going into DOS and using scanreg/fix to rebuild the reg and put all the bits in the right
places. Anyway I just booted from cold and it worked, about 40 seconds this time. I saw a thread on www.annoyances.org
in which some chap was waiting 7 mins!

Mike.

leeroybrown

The Run key paths are pretty unique anyway. You'd have copped on that it was the Windows subdir before too long anyway

ando

Originally posted by leeroybrown
Sorry Mike typo in those locations above:
(Should have read over them before posting considering the damage you can do)

Pimp Ninja

Try
Start > Run > msconfig > OK

Handy little tool there for messin about with yer startup.

Take summin out, if it borks just tick a box and its back...

Win98 Only

PPC

Originally posted by Pimp Ninja
Win98 Only

and ME and XP.
And in 2k if ya download a small proggy

Fidelis

Originally posted by mike65
going into DOS and using scanreg/fix to rebuild the reg and put all the bits in the right places. Anyway I just booted from cold and it worked, about 40 seconds this time.

40 seconds? Damn! I'm generally waiting up to 3 minutes What exactly did you do in DOS? i.e. command lines etc.

ando

yeah I'd like to know exactly what you did iswell

mike65

Heres what I did to speed things up.

Restart into DOS
then type scanreg/fix hit return and a blue screen will appear and a simple graphic showing the reg being cleaned and buffed up all shiney!

Then simply "ctrl-alt-del" back into Windows.

Mike.