Re: SLOW START

Dear Mr. Glen.
Thanx,
I have tried all you suggested, No spyware, no malware etc found..i tried
booting the machine in safe mode, and a Clean boot also,
But as I have said, the response is luke worm the PC takes its own time,
sometimes its say under 2 minutes and most other times its more than 5, I am
unableto pinpoint the fault.. :-(. It seems the Explorer is having its onw
mood (?) and does the trick..
However, No additional programmes running in the Background that I have made
sure, by disabling even the Antivirus and Networking service.
I think here that what Mr Ken suggested , I should rely on that...
But still I am amzed, why the PC is behaving strangly, and why other pcs
with asme configuration in my office on the same network are doing just finr.?

Bye
SAT

"Glen" wrote:

You need to read and understand exactly what I wrote.

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"databaseben" <databaseben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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yes, diffently need at least another 256. then the system will be
blazing.....
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"Glen" wrote:

Start by clean booting using msconfig. If disabling all startup items
makes
windows start quickly you then need to track down which item is causing
the
slowdown by starting them one at a time.

As you only have 256 MB RAM you might have too many programs open and
windows has to open them, then push some of them out into virtual memory
which will take time.

As you only have 256 MB RAM, disabling all start up items will speed up
the
start up but you wont track the slowdown to any one program as the fault
is
not enough RAM, not a slow loading program.

Fit at least another 256 MB RAM you might even take it up to 1 GB, only
you
will know what's right for you.

If the above suggestions don't show the fault look below.

Run chkdsk

Download the hard drive diagnostic tool by the computer manufacturer and
run
it. This will tell you if the hard drive is failing.

I am assuming your computer is clean of malware as you say you have run
anti
malware programs. Run hijack this and post it to one of the online forums
if
you need to.

Antispyware

Microsoft Antispyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Adaware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot S&E
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Hijackthis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html


Spyware forums
http://www.merijn.org/forums.html

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/


AntiVirus

AVG Antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Avast
http://www.avast.com/

Online Anti Virus
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/


MULTI_AV.EXE
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe


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"SAT" <SAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have P4 1.5 PC with 256 MB RAM & WIndowsXP PRo (SP1) with 40GB Hard
Drive
which has around 20GB free space ( 3 partitions).

The PC when booted, boots quickly to Desktop Screen, but after that, it
stops for a long while say 5 minutes and then after this delay works
fine.
SAY if I click and open My Computer.it will open, but then if I click
to
open
Hard drive/ partitions..it wouldn't open SOme text files in startup
folder
open while initialising..But other aplications say Excel or Word will
wait
that long. I cant explore/browse my pc during this period either

I have checked (Norton)- No viruses No SPy or adware (Python or
something..)
Disk regularly Defragmented, PArtitions checked No errors,
Yes sometimes The PC doesn't take that long..and starts working very
quickly
but most of the time it takes long.
I ahve checked processes, No alarming /unknown process running, No
unwanted
application shows in Task manager..

CAn anyone help me PLEASE..?

I have not been able to find the solution ...as to how to solve this
problem.

Thanx in anticipation

BYE
SAT P






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