Re: slow to boot, sometimes freezes

From: ashik (ashik_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:43:01 -0800

my xp shuts down automatically and shows the message that "the process
lsas.exe terminated unexpectedly and the system will now shutdoen and
restart".and before this happens i get a message that LSA shell export
version terminated.So please tell me how to stop this auto shutdown

"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>