Re: slow to boot, sometimes freezes

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From: Ted Zieglar (teddyz_at_notmail.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:43:15 -0500

Could you have too many programs running in the background?

What processes are occupying your CPU? (Open Task Manager to find out.)

Are you maintaining your computer regularly? (Defragment, disc cleanup,
eyc)?

Ted Zieglar

"Kenny S" <hotmail@coldmail.com> wrote in message
news:uel2lX51EHA.304@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I have winxp pro. The installation of windows is about a year old and its
>updated with SP2.
> I have installed a lot of progams and it seems that by installing them the
> pc started to boot slower and slower
> during the months that passed. I tried disabling the startup programs
> leaving only a very few of them that I need.
> But that does not help very much.
> My pc is also clean of viruses ans spyware. It takes lots of time from the
> point of the welcome screen
> where you enter the password to get the interface up and the disk to stop
> thrashing like crazy.
> Sometimes something happenes and the pc freezes, meaning that the mouse
> can move on the
> screen but I cannot close or start another program.. and ALT CTRL DEL does
> not do anything.
> The only option there is to press the RESET button and reload windows
> hoping that it will not freeze again.
>
> when I log onto another user the freeze does not happen, even though it
> has the same startup programs, and its somewhat faster.
>
> Are there other things being loaded like ocx, dll or other files that
> become a big burden when
> you install more and more programs? How can I control them?
>
> I was about to transfer my files to another user account that was faster
> and use that as my main log on,
> but I saw that on the new users Outlook Express opened alot slower, so I
> abandoned that Idea.
>
> I am sure that if I format and reinstall it will be fast again, but I am
> trying to avoid this.
>
>
> Any help, ideas, tips would be great.
>
> thanks in advance
>

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