Scott,

You might try disabling Norton System Works and rebooting to compare startup
times. Norton can suck up a lot of system resources and add to boot time
significantly. Of course you probably will want to re-enable it as soon as
you run the test, so you won't be without the protection it offers.  You
should also check which programs are running in the Windows system tray.
Every one of them adds to boot time and most are completely unnecessary.

Regards,

Patrick Tice
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-----Original Message-----
From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Shade
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 11:54 PM
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Subject: assistance

I'm looking for a piece of software that can go through and clean out
unwanted or unnecessary entries in the windows registry, or other system
critical areas.  I remember a piece of software called easyclean that would
clear out your system.dat and ini files and go through your registry and
remove broken keys and unnecessary entries and could greatly decrease system
start up time.  I'm sitting here with a 12 meg system.dat file and my
computer is taking nearly three minutes to start or re-start.  I'm quite
convinced that some of that wasted space can be compacted.  Or some solution
found.  I'm using nortan system works 2002 and don't see anyway of solving
the problem through that.  I've done propper defrag and scan disk sessions
through the windows maintainance wizard.  I do not want to do a system
re-format or re-load if its not necessary, unless someone can give me a good
way of automating the process that is reliable.  Thanks, Scott

I'm not specificly looking for easyclean butt, if anyone has a copy of it
lying around or they know of a good accessible piece of software that will
do the job let me know.  Microsofts reg clean is a joke over here.  It found
some stuff, butt, I didn't see what it did, nor did I see any improvements
in the system.  Thanks, Scott