sounds more software than hardware, but hardware issues are still possible.
I'd check programs to load up at boot and background first.

press ctrl-alt-del to bring out task manager, you can close few background
programs to see if system speed improved. you can also run MSCONFIG from
start button-->Run, that will show you what have been load at start up,
uncheck (clear) few you don't need (eg. Anti-virus) to run all the time.

Last, if you have a network card, you may experience slow boot into windows,
the only solution for this problem is to change another (different
mode/brand) card.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Rendell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Slow Starting


>     I've been running an Athlon 750 with 128 M Ram for a couple of
> months now. When I boot the machine into Windows 98SE it takes quite a
> while to do. Also, when I start up an application, sometimes the splash
> screen will freeze for sometimes up to a minute and then continue
> loading. I don't know if this may be a hardware problem, but if anyone
> has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

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