Re: NIce WinXP Home Boots-Up VERY SLO-O-WLY and Paints Screen Slowly with Banding
From: Rick (rick_at_nomail.com)
Date: 05/10/04
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:10:47 -0400
Hello Bernie,
I have a Dell Demension 2400 which which runs at 2.2 Ghz and came with
128mb of ram. I found that it booted a little slow also so I added another
256 mb of ram and that solved my problem. I also run Norton Antivirus and I
have not messed with any of the processes that load at start up. Definately
add more ram!
-- Best Regards Rick In Florida "Bernard R Buchta" <mrbuchta@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message news:e1TlJTpNEHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl > Greetings, > SYMPTOM: Computer running WinXP Home Boots-Up VERY SLO-O-WLY. > > Went to a friend's home to check out her PC because it was running > very slowly. > Her PC is a nice Dell Dimension 2350 desktop with a 1.7 GHz Intel > chip, 25 GIG hard drive (17 GIG Free), 128 MEG of RAM, and running > WinXP Home Edition 2002 with SP # 1 installed. > The machine was taking 2½ to 3 minutes to boot up. It goes online > using a 56K baud modem to her ISP, Earthlink, running Earthlink 2003 > Total Access software. > Machine was using Norton's AntiVirus with an up-to-date subscription. > Besides booting up very slowly, it "takes forever" to "refresh the > screen" whenever a graphic is being "painted" to it.. Example: When > we open Outlook Express and the OE6 Splash Screen appears, this > little IE 6 splash screen paints oh-so-very-slowly, line-by-line, > from the top to the bottom of the splash screen image (banding). > > Here's what I did in her machine: > I neutralized the Norton AV Program; both in the Norton's Set-Up > preferences, and in the "run msconfig" Startup Tab. Downloaded and > installed AVG6 AntiVirus program. We then updated AVG's virus > signatures and ran AVG6. > AVG6's virus scan reported the machine was "clean" and found NO VIRI. > > Next, we installed and ran Ad-Aware and SpyBot, Search & Destroy. > Both programs only found "a couple Tracking Cookies" i.e. nothing > major to speak of at all. These programs reported no major Spyware > infestations of any type. > Ran CWShredder. Found nothing. > > Somewhere in the above testing (Spybot??) I saw an indication that > MS-Blast may be affecting her machine. However; it wasn't "rebooting > every 60 seconds". When I asked her if she had ever been to the > Microsoft Update site, she said, "What's that?" > I applied the WinXP 32-bit fix (patch) for MS-Blast from the > Microsoft site.. > Then we went to the Windows Update site and checked her system. We > applied all Critical Updates and Drivers. > http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp > Upon Reboot, nothing changed. The machine still exhibited all the > same, sorry symptoms. > > Next I TURNED-OFF WinXP Indexing Service. > http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm#Indexing_Service > As far as I can tell, the machine is CLEAN. No viri, no spyware, no > malware. > > Nonetheless, the machine still takes 2½ minutes to boot-up and it > still "paints graphics" very, very slowly. > Any ideas as what to do next to speed up the boot-up process, or help > "paint the screen graphics" more quickly, are sincerely appreciated. > Thanks in advance. > Bernie in Troy
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