Re: 2 hours to startup and even then not fully working on XP Pro machine.

Yes, I've tried that and a lot more besides. I didn't list everything cos
the list was long enough already and also cos blood was starting to spurt
from my finger ends.

You and Danny are right, of course, but the thought of re-installing
Windows, then SP1 & SP2 and then all the other MS applications like Office &
Visio & Proj and all the others and then having to re-activate them over the
phone cos I've run out of automatic activations all conspired to put me off
that route.

I did consider it until I got a popup message saying that, as I'd got two
SPs installed, the XP version on the CD was an earlier version than the one
on the system and therefore would require a complete new installation
without the facility to keep my old settings.

Please forgive my whingeing - I think I'm suffering from PC-induced
depression.

I'll make a start on it at the weekend and continue using the laptop for
now.

Many thanks for your time and trouble.

Michael


"George Hester" <hesterloli@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What I would do is use msconfig in diagnostic mode and see if the issues
> continue in that mode. If they do Donny has the fix.
>
> --
>
> George Hester
> _________________________________
> "Michael Walsh" <mick.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OckTDgoJGHA.1288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hope someone can help me with this.
>>
>> The house fuse blew while I was installing Mcafee. When I eventually got
>> the PC started it started doing strange things which just seemed to get
>> worse over time.
>>
>> *On the first attempt at starting, after the mains failure, I was told
> that
>> the system couldn't find my SCSI drive, but that was ok after I restarted
>> it.
>> *I could neither fully install nor uninstall Mcafee, but while I was
> trying
>> to remedy that, I found that the PC was taking longer and longer to
> shutdown
>> whenever I did a reboot. In addition, I noticed that various
>> applications
>> were unable to close on their own and needed to be manually closed.
>> *Then I noticed the start-ups were getting longer and then I noticed that
>> open tasks wouldn't appear on the taskbar, although I could find them by
>> alt-del.
>> *Loaded programmes wouldn't start (although things like Solitaire and
>> FreeCell started ok) and
>> *when I went into Services I found that most of them weren't started.
>> *If I try to start them I get an 'Error 1053: The service is not
> responding
>> .......'.
>> *Trying to open Properties on any Service is just plain ignored.
>> *The Extended Services pane is empty but Standard shows them.
>> *In Task Manager Processes, none of the tasks, apart from system idle
> shows
>> any UserName (system idle shows System)
>> *Finally noticed that Remote Procedure Call, in Services, showed Starting
>> instead of Started.
>> *It, and Automatic Updates, stay in this state for about 2 hours, after
>> which time it is possible to manually start Services.
>> *Despite starting and shutting down very slowly, the CPU usage is about
> 1-2%
>> *Properties now works, but opening the Dependencies tab causes a Win32
> error
>> and will not open.
>> *Windows update opens the update browser but then fails to do anything.
>> *Help & Support opens and allows me to enter a query in the search box
> but,
>> although the screen changes to show the usual two panes, the Results pane
>> remains empty and doesn't even show the Suggested Topics, Full-text
>> Search
>> Matches or Microsoft Knowledge Bases sub-panes.
>> *Search from the Start Menu won't open but if I go there via Windows
>> Explorer it opens, but all it then shows is a dog scratching itself -
>> nothing else.
>> *I can eventually access the internet, but the network icon doesn't show
> in
>> the notification area and the Network Connections window is totally
>> blank.
>> *When it lets me open the Restore process, I've tried to restore the
> system
>> to the day before this started happening, but although it pretends to go
> all
>> the way through the restore process, when I click on the final 'Next'
> button
>> to set it restoring my system, it just sits there laughing at me.
>> (Paranoid? What do you mean?)
>>
>> If I intercept the Windows start-up with F5 and beg it to restore the
> system
>> to the last known good start-up, I still get everything happening as
> above.
>>
>> My system has been running ok since I built it seven months ago and runs
> XP
>> Pro with SP2 (all pukkah)
>>
>> I've spent four days on this so far. Will someone please save my sanity,
> my
>> PC and a perfectly harmless lounge window by offering some advice.
>>
>> Many, many thanks
>> Michael Walsh
>>
>>
>>
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