Really slow reboot times?

[doctorhardware]

Do you have any open PCI slots, if you do why not get a sata card or get a sata external case that way you can use the sata drive.

[Abuilder]

Danny
If you want to get a big sata drive and only have IDE ports, you could get one of these like Miles and I have.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=90147

[dazuk1972]

OK, I seriously don't know why my computer takes like 5 minutes to do a complete restart. It seems like the time keeps getting longer and longer.

First off, I just scanned for malware a day or two ago... so that's not the problem. (And I used various scanners, not just one)

When I do a shut down, it says "Saving your settings" for two or more minutes! Then takes another minute or so to "Shut down your PC".

Then for starting up, the Windows XP thing is quick enough, but my screen just goes black and takes about 30 seconds for the desktop icons to appear. At which point it's an hourglass for another 2-3 minutes.

I just went through my startup and disabled a TON of crap I didn't need. But it didn't seem to affect the times at all. Here's a list of what does boot with Windows:

Ad Muncher, Apache, AutoSizer, AVG (a couple processes there), Bluetooth Service, Bluetooth.lnk (not sure if either of those is NEEDED for my Bluetooth dongle to work), cftmon.exe, EM_EXEC, HDD Information Service/HDInspector (that shows the temperatures of my drives), LogMeIn/LogMeInGUI/LogMeIn Maintenance Service, Monitor Apache Servers.lnk, NvCplDaemon/NVIDIA Display Driver Service/NvMediaCenter/nwiz (NVIDIA processes for my video card - I don't know if they're needed in order to make it work but I'd rather not risk it), PMCRemote (remote IR sensor for my TV tuner), ProcessExplorer.lnk, Registry Management Service, USB2Check (also for my TV tuner), 4 programs related to VMWare, VNC Server, zBrowser Launcher (the thing that enables hotkeys on my keyboard), Zune Launcher

Seems like a lot but none of those are extraneous programs... Weirdly, though, Google Updater keeps finding a way to run despite me removing it from the run list... Is it being malware now? Or does Firefox trigger it somehow?

The number of desktop icons doesn't affect startup speed, does it? Mine's almost full with files and icons... but I think I remember reading that the myth about desktop icons wasn't true.

Don't Defrag because I've heard and read so much about Defragging causing further and major problems. Some people couldn't boot their PC's over that where Defrag messed their files-up in Windows by accident.

[doctorhardware]

I had to format my dad's computer due to he had never let defrag run. The computer hard drive was so messed up it would not boot up it would constantly reboot. The OS got so corrupted that it had to be formatted.