RE: Start up very slow on XP PC - May be programs on startup



You can't "upgrade" XP home to XP Pro; you need to reformat and do a clean
install.

"ChuckW" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a user who has a year old Toshiba laptop. It had XP Home and we
> upgraded it to XP Pro. It was very slow at startup so I actually reloaded
> the whole operating system again. First the XP Home and then the XP Pro. I
> needed to reload the XP Home because it has Toshiba oriented things that are
> not on the XP Pro upgrade CD. It is now even slower than before to boot up.
> It is also very slow for any office program to come up. I am trying to
> figure out why. I have done Norton scans and it came up clean. I looked
> at the System Configuration Utility and here are the items in this list.
>
> exSP_Px which is something in Windows/System 32
> TFncKy the command says TFnCKy.exe
> pinger this is in a Toshiba folder
> ITouch This is for a cordless mouse and Keyboard
> EM_EXEC This is a logitek folder for the cordless which is the brand of
> cordless mouse and keyboard.
>
> hpztsb04 this is in the Windows/system32 folder
> ccApp this is in program files/ common files/symantec
> VPTray This is in a symantec folder
> ctfmon this is in a Windows/system 32
> LogitechDesktop
> RAMASST Windows/system32
> 00THotkey Windows/system32
> 000StTHK 00StTHK.exe
> NvCpl Rundll32.exe
> nwiz nwiz.exe.installquiet
> TFNF5 TFNT5.exe
> Stacmon c:Programfiles/SigmaTel
> ACRSMMSG SGRSMMSG.exe
> SynTPLpr c:\programfiles\synaptics
> SynTPEnh c:\programfiles\synaptics
> TouchED c:\Programfiles\Toshiba
> NDSTray ndstray.exe
> TRSMain TPSMain.exe
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Chuck W
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