Re: Slow Windows

DukeOfMarshall wrote:

I've got a serious problem. I was having trouble downloading and
installing the new flash player so I went through Adobe's
troubleshooting guide. One thing that they recommended was that the
windows profile I was using didn't have sufficient rights to install
the program and suggested that this might be resolved by modifying the
permissions of the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT directory of the registry. I set
the "Users" permission to full control and rebooted. Now windows is
EXTREMELY slow after the welcome screen. Once a program is up and
running the program itself is fine, but windows explorer, the task
bar, and the start button are EXTREMELY slow when I attempt to use
them. It usually takes somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes to get
anything to happen. This is still resulting even after I undid the
changes I made to the registry. Can anyone help me resolve this issue?
An upgrade to XP Pro didn't even help. I'm really not wanting to clean
install if at all possible. Does anyone have a solution?

Hi...
I just ran into a similar problem just yesterday when I attempted to install a printer and its software to my one Windows XP Pro SP2 system.
After I rebooted, everything was very slow - welcome screen hanging for nearly 10 minutes, same with password, shutdown, explorer, etc...
First I rebooted, hit the ctrl key or F8 key and chose Last Known Good Configuration.

(I could not use system restore as suddenly none of my restore points prior to installing this software could not be restored).

When this didn't work I did the following as I could not get into safe mode:
How To Repair or Replace Boot.ini in Windows XP
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/repairbootini.htm

I believe it helped but still some hangs so I rebooted and entered the BIOS (System Settings) and changed my boot sequence to boot from CD. Put the Windows XP Pro disk in drive and rebooted, then performed a repair right from the disk.
Here are some sites to guide you through this:
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxppro/installxpcdrepair/indexfullpage.htm

Seems drastic but the printer software I was installing did not work anyway. It was just after loading this as the system froze during setup, that my problems began with the slow starts and system hangs. When I was able to get back into safe mode and before I attempted to go to Last Known Good Configuration, I removed that particular printer's software first and manually cleaned out the registry from all references to this. If you are not familiar with manually cleaning the registry entries, then do not open the registry editor. Just follow steps above and from those pages to try to get back to normal.

Just some ideas but what you are experiencing sounds very close to what occurred with my system after trying to load that software.

All is well again and after performing steps above, my system is back to normal and I lost nothing with these fixes.

Take Care...
Dee


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