Hi folks,
I thank you for responding to my quesitons about scan disk on startup.
Right now, it takes my machine 1 minute and 34 seconds to bootup.  I want to shorten it to 10 seconds if possible.  My sighted friend Ed says his 1200 meg machine boots up in 10 seconds.  Now he is using a 7200 RPM drive, which I'm going to also buy.
Now, I tried the desktop key+r then typed msconfig then tabbed down and I couldn't find the start page.  All I found was ok cancel, apply.
Someone needs to give me instructions or let me call them and walk me through this process.  Once I get this process down, I'll have it on paper, so I can use it when I want to take things out so the bootup process can be faster.
Now, I was also told that I could go to system, and then when I get to system, I pressed enter, and couldn't find no page to show me the performance.  So, someone is gonna have to give me more instructions via email or better yet, let me call them and talk me through this.  I'd love to use the windows tutorial info that is on main menu, but don't have a patch cord and I can't talk as fast on to my tape recorder while it's talking, so one way or other, I'm gonna get this bootup time down.  If a sighted person can get his computer down to 10 seconds, then so should us blind folks.  Sighted people have alot more things load on startup than we do, so something is wrong on my end and I'd sure like to take stuff out of there.
Harry


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