Why does rebooting Windows XP make it 100x faster?
 

I shouldn't have to reboot my machine just to make it run faster :1orglaugh

cause its Micro$hit !

Maybe becasue you are the only one who has yet to write Boneprone in Jail who is family?

If you want the address write me man.

Its like you have distanced yourself from em just becasue of his situation?

I've got XP Pro and reboot about every 4 days. No real need, just for general purposes.
Not sure what's up with yours.

Try Start -> Run -> msconfig
Check the startup tab and uncheck all of the unnecessary shit that's starting on bootup and running constantly in the background.
Hit okay, restart.

Should run much faster.

because it's crap and everyone knows it.

how many times a day does your windows machine give you errors?

I know I get freaky shit happeneing to me ALL THE TIME on 6+ windows machines

hahah

been that way since 3.1

haha

cuz Bill's company puts out overpriced, bloated piles of crap....


<img src="http://bill-gates.blewme.com/fuckbilly.jpg">

I never reboot my machine, unless the power goes out, and it constantly runs fast. My secret is a little program called rambooster :thumbsup

I almost never get errors or slowdowns on my PC because I always clean it up first, delete background programs, and chock my system full of RAM.

Most of the time, slowdowns and errors occur because PC users are n00bish when it comes to sending their PC through a diet (cleaning bground programs, etc.).

Pete..
Better yet can you give me your mailing address so he can write?

He's sending out books on Islam from jail and he mentioned you specfically wanting to send one too.

We all got one. Its a big as book that is real real real deep.

He specfically mentioned you when he was sending out these books and said this would grasp and blow your mind.

email me and send me your address!

[email protected]

What's your email?

i concur. any1 with a more technical reason behind this?

You know I was thinking about it -- last time I rebooted was probably 3 weeks ago! :1orglaugh I guess I can't complain too much about rebooting -- but there's always room for improvement :Graucho

Cool... do I need "rundll16" in my statup?

Looks like I had some norton, adobe and winamp crap in there...

I agree -- but that doesn't excuse "memory leak" type slowness that slowly grinds your machine to a hault over time...

Probably there is some new critter on my machine causing it to slow down but I don't have the faintest idea what it is... Norton/Zone Alarm didn't catch anything...

Ok I sent an email -- what the fuck is going on? I was just thinking about Boneprone today wondering if I should move out to Portland...

Tell him not to send me any Islam stuff -- I stopped reading about religion and philosophy -- I only read fiction now.

Very true :thumbsup

Ah sweet memory leaks! How I've missed thee.

Dumbed down version (easier to explain not that anyone is stupid...sigh):

Hi I'm windows, I live on your computer, I eat, sleep, shit, piss, shower and do all kinds of other crap in here that you have no idea about. To top it all off...I don't clean up after myself. The fact that I don't clean up after myself is what makes your computer slow down. In a word, nothing can get by because there's too much junk cluttering up the pathways in and around your house. In otherwords you better clean your shit up. Rebooting cleans house.

that's the way it is

w2k do not slow down even after months without reboot

Zero.



Maybe you should look into some of those video professor courses. Cause it's apparent, your computer skills are minimal.

Looks pretty cool....how do you have your preferences set??

My friend got that problem too ... Then he changed his ram chips and the problem was gone . It wasn't clearing the memory correctly and was gettign slowly over loaded something like that

Fly, i have found it really depends on what else i am running with it. For example, if i do 4-5 hours of surfing with netcaptor i start bogging down and need to reboot. But the same thing with ie alone is no problem. Same thing with dreamweaver and a few other progs. I have tried various ram programs and some of them do help, but i suspect there is more involved than just memory. Windows is so frigging bloated there is no telling all the stuff thats going on with hours of use, especially when other progs come into play. But at least its better that win98 was, although that aint saying much.

either does my xp
people say xp sucks because it comes with a lot of extras that some people like
if they knew how to disable all that extra shit, there wouldnt be a problem
i actually had more problems with 2k than xp
lots of crashes and reboots, followed by screens saying i need to reboot again and run chkdsk again
fuck that noise

I have a strong suspicion it's Photoshop.

format

i think your machine is slow because of norton and zonealarm
throw that trash away :winkwink:

Yeah, photoshop is a huge ram hog