Re: slow user logon

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:42:59 -0700

xp_challenged wrote:

> i'm fairly new to xp and am having a user log on issue. This machine
> is used primarily as a home computer,(web browsing, e-mail , homework,
> etc.). Being as such I have had problems in the past (win98) of the
> various users in the household of mis knowingly downloading programs
> or applications that have malicous content.
> I upgraded t a newer machine that has xp. i created a user account for
> the household and kept my user account as administrator,(password
> protected). However after logging on to a user account it takes
> forever for the machine to load.
> I checked the task manager nd there are all sorts of "funny" things
> running. Since the user account is set as limited access I cannot
> remove this items using msconfig or regedit. If I change the user
> account to administrator none of the "funny" items appear in task
> manager.
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Mike

You can disable the "funny things" from your Administrator account with
regedit. You have access to all user hives there. If you are not
comfortable working with the registry, don't mess around with it and
take the machine to a good local shop for cleaning (not a BestBuy or
CompUSA type of store).

Malke 

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