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Increase startup speed

Hi, I wonder how many have experienced a slow startup with QB? We are seeing 30-60 secs or more. Other progs open quickly. Now I understand that QB opens the entire datafile...there is a better way, but Intuit should already know this. Our .qbw is only 8.2MB...not very large. System is 2.5gig cpu, 1GB ram, XP SP3. System has been cleaned and defragged.

All un-needed programs have been removed. All program startups have been disabled for boot performance. The contents of the quickstart tool bar is minimal. Your thoughts?

Oh by the way, has anyone heard of a QB preloader that could keep the core or a piece thereof in memory. This would certainly help.

Reply to
Xenon
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What year QB are you running? One trick is to always close the company before exiting the program. When you launch the program the next time you don't have the overhead of opening up a company file. This will speed things up a bit. Plus if anything ever happens to your company file you will always be able to open the program.

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Reply to
Xenon

1 GB of ram! That's nothing today, get more. How fast is the bus? How fast is the drive. How much space left. If the drive wasn't reformatted and the operating system reinstalled it probably is not as clean as you think it is. also 30-60 sec is not the end of the world.
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Haskel LaPort

I'd suggest 4GB of Ram. Works well for me with QuickBooks.

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Steuart

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