alrite people dont really no much but went on me gf's comp and it took 20/30 mins to load like from when u turn it on till when it comes up with the users aparently its always been like this ? its windows xp and i think the comps is a time , any one no wat it could be ?
thanks

 

Full virus-scan.
Spy/ad-ware scan.
Defragment all drives.

And, what spec is the machine? ie. how much memory, how fast a processor, etc? (right-click on My Computer -> Properties).

 

alrite dude done spy /ad-ware scan (well she dose every day ) and full virus scan . think its got 100 (odd) gb hdd, 1.25ghz processor and 256mb ram . the comp is a " TIME " of some sort will find out when im round there next ! any thing eles you need?
thanks

 

Defrag the hard-drive next time you're there......right-click on the drive in the My Computer window, go to Properties, then in one of the tabs, you should have the option to Defragment Drive or something similar. If it's never been done before, it's likely it'll take a while (my brother hadn't done his for 6-9 months, his computer was running painfully slow, and it took 12 hours to do it, but his computer is now running quite a lot smoother). Ideally, you'll want to be running it every 2 weeks or so, but it does depend on how much you use the computer...

I'd say 256Mb is bare minimum, but again, it does depend on what you use the computer for......might be worth looking at upgrading to 512Mb, if possible.

 

thanks mate will tell her