Re: XP extremely slow boot up



Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

What errors appear in Event Viewer?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the
System and Application logs in Event Viewer relating to the last boot in
normal mode . No Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate
which also appear in a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RDT wrote:
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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http://www.nasstec.co.uk


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