The only thing I can sort of suggest is to check the Event log (if you're running WinXP).
Start menu, Programs, Administrative tools, Event Viewer. Then in the treeview on the left, you can check out either the Application events, or the System events, and you could even try clearing their history first, then reboot the machine, and see if there are many error/warning events in there. To clear them, just cursor down to the one you want to check out, use the right-click/application menu key to bring up the context menu, and arrow down to the clear option. Then reboot the machine, open the event viewer again, arrow down to the one you want to check out, tab over to the actual list, move up and down and you should hear basic info for each item like the date/time, type etc., and if you want more info, hit enter on it, and a dialogue will pop up where you can tab around to get more detailed information. This may not give you any useful information, but I reckon it's worth a try. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Blind-Computing" <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:41 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Boot up speed > I've noticed over the last week or so the time my Acer XP Pro system is > taking to boot up and get JAWS going has increased tremendously. I tried > it > with JAWS 8 as I heard 9 lags a bit but this made no difference. Only > other thing I did lately was install AVG antispyware and IE 7. I've > uninstalled the antispywareand again no difference. I don't want to > uninstall IE 7 as eventually this will be the version everyone will be > using. Has anyone else notice a decrease in boot up after installing AVG > antispyware and/or IE 7? I've defragged my hard drive and run reg scrub > neither of which made an appreciable difference. Anything else I can try > or > possible uncheck in MSCONFIG? > > thanks > Al > > > Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]