MP3's on hard drive

[andy-hughes]

I have an XP 'puter with about 300 songs as MP3's. Will this slow the start-up of my PC? It is very slow, and runs fine once it's in gear.

I have run the defragmenter programme - no effect.

Any help please?

[Postdog]

Had 40,000 once. Makes no difference to start up speed. Probably got another program slowing it up. Better people than me can advise you of that.

[hc4361]

Go to start-run and type
msconfig
in the box. Click Enter.
Now click the Startup tab and see what programs are starting automatically at log in. Some of it essential such as your firewall and antivirus software but you may have lots of progs starting that you won't use that session.
If you know for sure what something is, such as Office, you can untick tick it and reboot. Be certain you know what it.
Lots of progs put themselves in the startup and it is not necessary. You don't need your printer software, mp3, camera, satnav, games, instant message prog, and so on to be running automatically all the time.
It should start up a lot faster without loading all those progs.

[rojash]

The usual cause of slow running at startup is a cr@ppy AV such as Norton or AVG doing a startup scan.

[VHG]

Files sitting on your hard disk make NO difference to start up time.

The thing likely to slow it down is programs "auto starting" as Windows starts.

This can be all sorts of programs, perhaps anti virus updating, or perhaps other programs.

You need to find out which programs are starting up when the computer starts up.

[jason.p]

Can you recommend a better Anti Virus than AVG that doesn't slow down the startup, or can AVG be configured not to do the scan?

[TTG]

You can disable scheduled scan in avg. Tools, Options, Schedules, Scheduled scan. Ensure the 'Enable this Task' box is unticked.

[TTG]

Sorry Tools, Advanced settings!

[jason.p]

Thanks TTG

[bigbrain_biggerego99]

Basically, MP3s make no difference to startup speed...