RE: Slow Boot

From: Mary (Mary_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/25/04


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:53:02 -0700

Try downloading Ad Aware and Spybot and run them to remove spyware.

"sturner333" wrote:

> Starting a couple of days ago my laptop started booting
> up VERY slow. It gets to the screen that shows my
> background and sits there reading the hard drive for most
> of 2 minutes, then finishes. I tried system restore. That
> doesn't seem to have any effect. I have done a virus
> scan, it's ok. I have looked st the program that start up
> during startup and I don't see anything out of the
> ordinary. This seems to have been a very sudden thing. It
> doesn't seem that the hard drive is bad ( i also did a
> disk check). Any help would be appreciated.
>
>



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