Programs on start up

[sprayermick]

First of all let me say that I know next to nothing about computers, that said let me tell you that I have been given a working Toshiba Satellite laptop that is running Windows XP
but is painfully slow on booting up & shutting down, I have removed lots of programs that I don't want by going to "my computer - add/remove programs" and deleting them from there but it still remains very slow, I was told that it may be the amount of programs that it is trying to load on boot up/shutdown and that I need to remove the ones I don't need so how do I do that?

[ChuckFickens]

As you've been given it then you'll have no personal data to worry about, so why not just try doing a factory restore on it and take it back to it's original state (if possible)

Try turning the laptop off, hold down the 0 (zero) key and turn it on, keep the 0 key pressed and see if you get the recovery screen, if you do follow instructions to restore it to factory default.

[sprayermick]

Thank you for that advice ChuckFickens I will certainly give it a try as soon as I get home!

[lemmyxuz]

I think you need to upgrade your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_
drive">hard
disk</a> memory and/or RAM for a faster PC performance.

[lemmyxuz]

You need to upgrade your hard disk memory and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-acc
ess_memory">RAM</a>
to have everything loads and works faster.

[teedee]

Try this. Click on start.Click on run.Type in MSCONFIG.Click ok.Click on start up then untick all the boxes.click ok.restart the computer.
When you have done that.Click on start.click on run,type in %temp%, delete what is in the folder,next click on start,click on run, type in TEMP,delete all items,next click start then run, type in COOKIES delete all items.