Re: windows xp home edition taking ages to boot up

Oops sorry, forgot to mention that the Mcafee popped up the following :

c:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\helpctr.exe contains suspicious
scripting activity and has been stopped.



"Spanner" wrote:

Thanks for that Gerry. I had a look in the event viewer and this is what I
got :

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Dhcp
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1002
Date: 06/02/2006
Time: 08:41:30
User: N/A
Computer: SUMMER
Description:
The IP address lease 192.168.2.2 for the Network Card with network address
0010DCC41E41 has been denied by the DHCP server 192.168.2.1 (The DHCP Server
sent a DHCPNACK message).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

No idea what that means......anyway, I also checked my device manager and
there were no yellow ticks, everythings ok there. I also checked the
"sigverif.exe" and found I have 2 files danim.dll and ntvdmd.dll which aren't
digitally signed. What do I do with those now?

Something else I found to......during a look at help and support I tried to
open the systems configuration utility but my Mcafee popped up telling me it
had found a supicious script so I chose to block it.....it does that
everytime I try to open the systems configuration utility by the way.

Is any of this making sense? oh bugger.....heeelppppp lol




"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System
and Application logs for the last boot and post copies.

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

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

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. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on
the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties. Hardware,
Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?

Try Start, Run, type "sigverif.exe" without quotes and hit OK. What drivers
are listed as unsigned? Disregard those which are not checked.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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"Spanner" <Spanner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just lately my pc has been taking nearly 20 minutes to load which is
ridiculous. It was running absolutely fine after a recent format......done
due to the fact that windows just didn't boot up at all. I would have used
the repair option but it didn't give me the option to do it and believe
me, I
could have done without losing all my stuff (why is it you never back up
when
you really need to doh!) I've used diagnostics to check my hard drive and
that doesn't seem to be showing any problems......surely it can't be a
software problem???

When the pc didn't boot up at all I didn't get any error messages or
anything, it was just a blank screen.

I have an anti virus package, firewall, cleaner, spyware tool and I defrag
regularly. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.



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