Turn off init services you don't need. There's plenty that start up by default that you'll never use. At the command line try
"ntsysv" ... if you prefer to use GUI you'll find a tool somewhere that lets you turn services on and off.


Things you _probably_ don't need or use: httpd, isdn, pcmcia, atd, dhcpd, blah blah blah.

Michael.

At 09:44 p.m. 23/03/2003, you wrote:
A faster hard drive will help but I dont think you can do much apart from use
an older version of KDE, or dont use KDE at all nad use ion instead. Ion and
X take 6 seconds to start up on my machine.

-Paul

On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 9:22 pm, Daniel Fone wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a 300MHz machine with 128Meg RAM. Just
> recently it seems to have really slowed down during the startup process.
> After I have logged in, it just sits for a time before the KDE 3.0
> splash/loading screen displays. Would anyone have any idea how to optimize
> the start-up process?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel



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