When first turning on the pc,it takes ages before i can do anything.
its got a pentium p4 2.2ghz and ive just upgraded one stick of memory from 128 to 512 (so its now got 512+128),so it shouldn't be that slow.Is there any programs to tell me if anything is wrong?
Or a method via control panel?
thanks

I assume Windows, probably XP?

Biggest difference for the basic boot will be defragmenting the harddrive. You might also want to defragment the pagefile / registry hives etc. You can use a program called PageDefrag, from www.sysinternals.com to do that.

Next you want to stop all the unnecessary application helpers starting up (usually see them as icons at the bottom right of your screen). Check out "Autoruns", again from www.sysinternals.com, which will tell you everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about what causes programs to get started on your Windows machine. Look under the tabs "WinLogon", "Services" and "Logon" to see whats being automatically started. HOWEVER, take care you don't disable something that you actually need ... the tool won't check for you!

Finally (or possibly initially!) you should make sure that you're virus and spyware free ... make sure your antivirus signatures are up to date, and you've run a recent scan. Same for your anti-spyware (I use AdAware).

Hope that helps
Cheers
Richard

get a new computor after
the roof
the brakes
the wish bone kit
the seats
the roll bar

lol

Have you got a quick boot option in bios that you could enable?

the Quick boot option?
Is that for when it takes even bl**dy longer !
Morfy......you got it back to front,the seats are ordered,the brakes are happening& and i will get 'roundtuit'with the roof!
p.s. I like the pic's of malc's panel on your 'climbing frame' LOL

Just wondering, You said you have upgraded to 512MB Ram

Has the slow donw happened since this upgrade?

Could be POST slowing on RAM check?

J

I'd suspect the motherboard doesn't like the 128+512 memory sticks at the same time.

Get the free version of SiSoft Sandra (http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/) and run the diagnostics.

Try removing the 128 and see what happens if the memory benchmark looks slow.