Time has come to pass over my computer. It has seen many many games and applications which it will run fine, not a hitch. There is, however, a hitch getting to those programs. My boot takes forever to complete, I have easily timed it to over 12 minutes before I can launch an internet window (yes, I mean IE, get over it lol). My computer is by no means slow, it will happily run Crysis all day long with virtually no lag at all. I have googled this for weeks, following tips on how to reduce the time for boot such as turning off startup applications, defragment, disk clean, reg clean etc. But still I'm left waiting for ages before I can use my computer properly.
I have read the forum rules and understand them and after googling things for days on end and getting nowhere I was hoping someone would just have a little snippet of information that would finally let my computer boot in sub 10 minutes. I'm a college student and dont need the blistering speeds of a 30 second boot but using photoshop can take up to 15 agonizing minutes before my document is ready to go.
Any help would be appreciated, honestly! Specs are:
Intel P4 3.2GHz HTT
1Gb DDR RAM
7200RPM IDE HDD (The less we say about capacity the less embarrassed I am )
512Mb ATi Radeon x1650 AGP 8X
Air cooling
I am aware my system is pretty old and creaky but 12 minutes for the internet is madness.Any other specs that may help you will be provided. Thanks for any help guys!