RE: XP extremely slow boot up

We ran the onecare scan with it in safe mode and it found a few things but
that didn't fix it. It has been running for 45 minutes now and still has left
login screen.

"nass" wrote:



"RDT" wrote:

I have booted up in safe mode and that seems fine and takes a normal amount
of time to get up and running but when I try to boot up through the normal
login screen it takes forever as in grass grows faster. Once it gets to the
screen where the users are listed, it virutally freezes. The color bar
doesn't even move. You can here the HDD making a pattern of noises
(dttt...dt, dt, dt, dt). It has done this for awhile and would evetually boot
but now it takes 2 or 3 minutes just to get to the password window and it
goes to sleep before it ever boots. It's a Compaq laptop that orignally had
ME on it. It has a 20G hard drive and 256M of ram. It's been great for about
a year but now it's doing this. How do I tell whats running that doing this?
Thanks

You need really to invest in a more RAM like 512 and also 20 GB at present
not much at all with hungry Apps and Games if you play one!
You need to weed out the unwanted Programs in the Add/Remove to free some
disk space untill you invest in a bigger Hard drive or a new computer.

Go through these cleaning steps:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

Scan for malware from here:
SuperAntispyware - Free Download and update then runa cmplete scan:
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm

Windows memory: A whirlwind tour
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-memusage/
Quick Guide to Monitoring Memory
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/76098/jsi-tip-4792-evaluating-memory-and-cache-usage.html
How to speed your PC:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

Run disk clean up and then run this command:
sfc /scannow


HTH,
nass
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