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It seems it slowed down here in the recent months, it's not painfully slow, but I noticed a small slowdown.
Install linux?
In response to Jp
How would that help?... besides linux boot time will slow down aswell if you start too many programs at the same time.

This goes for any OS, if you want a fast boot have no progrmas auto start.
In response to Xzar
I'll remember that. Disable all startup progrmas!
In response to Jp
Well, linux does it better.
But I still need XP, if BYOND was FULLY linux supported, I would prob. be on linux.

What I find funny is, using the wayback machine, they said on there download page:
"Linux GUI Coming Soon!"
That was like in the year 2000, and they suddenly "removed" that notice..
Don't shut down in the first place. =p
In response to SuperAntx
Sounds like a computer thing. What are you all running, whats your specs? Ram? Ect.

I run on a P4 1.80GHZ System with 800 odd ram with 3 programs that start up when windows does. My Windows Xp takes amount 30 seconds to boot up and bam, I am in windows.

It sounds like your either trying to run Windows Xp on a system not ment for it, or you got too much crap loading up at one time.

That is a problem with my family PC. It takes like 2 mins to load windows up, and then it takes another 2 mins to log into anyones account.

When you log in, it takes another min and a half, and during this time, about half a dozen or more programs start up, mostly junk to begin with.

If you have alot of start up programs, you might want to get rid of any unessesscary ones. If thats not the case, maybe you need to up your ram a bit?

A Microsfot Xbox with upgraded ram BARELY runs Windows XP. So IMO XP is a resource hog.
In response to Shades
Make 3 compartiments (or however it's spelled...). One for Windows, one for the data and one for whatever you have. When windows has it's own 'piece of hard drive', it boots up faster.

PS; also scan for spyware >.>
Ad-Aware si t3h 1337 y0!
In response to Mysame
defragmentingg the drive on at least a monthly basis will help some too. it re-orders the files on the drive so that seek/read times are faster.
In response to SuperAntx
You can cause some hardware problems by not shutting it down It needs to shut down to clear its RAM if the programs don't do it themselves already when they are closed. You could also defragment your drive and check for bad sectors.