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Computer takes forever to boot up
by blew92 - 6/3/09 8:18 PMRecently my computer has taken a very long time to boot up. It gets past the Windows loading screen fine, but it spends an abnormally long time with a view of my desktop, sans the windows taskbar and icons. I am running Windows XP with SP3, and I have run scans with AVG, Antivir, Adaware and Spybot, (not all installed at once) to no avail. What could be causing this delay in startup? In addition, quite often windows explorer will crash when I am trying to navigate my hard drives. Could this be a result of too many additions to the right click context menu?
any help is appreciated
Hope so this may work!
by vigneshiyers - 6/4/09 4:25 AM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92Click Start>Run>Type msconfig>Startup.
Try disabling one and restart the computer, and see if it speeds up. If not try disabling the second option....and so on until the speed becomes all right. This task may be boring but worth trying. Good luck.
Check msconfig but don't just start disabling things
by eelydnic - 6/7/09 9:23 AM In reply to: Hope so this may work! by vigneshiyersWhile I agree that you need to look through the start-ups, I have to disagree with you on the point of disabling each service until it speeds up. This could be quite dangerous if you don't know what you're disabling!
I recommend checking one of the many start-up programs sites to determine which ones are safe to disable or not.
Some good sites are...
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm
Another option is to simply google the progam info to see what it's for.
Cnet help
by jeff_windows_team
- 6/4/09 10:01 AM
In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92
Here is a great post with ideas on how to speed up startup: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6121_102-0.html?threadID=22053&start=15
Jeff
Windows Outreach Team
Maybe This Is The Link You're Referrring To ?
by Grif Thomas
- 6/5/09 1:21 PM
In reply to: Cnet help by jeff_windows_team
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6121_102-0.html?messageID=238474#238474
Hope this helps.
Grif
computer takes forever
by bigd6281 - 6/5/09 7:42 AM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92Try Run>msconfig> startup
you can also delete old cache
and cleaning shortcuts on your desktop
Computer takes forever to boot
by cnet5632 - 6/5/09 7:17 PM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92Recently I experienced a problem with my PC booting up extremely slow.
It took the better part of 10 minutes to boot. This was caused by my PC (P4 HT CPU) using 100% of it's processing power to load certain programs. I was able to resolve the issue by going to the START button, selecting Help and Support, Use tools to view your computer information and diagnose problems. Then I selected System Configuration Utility in the left window pain then Open System Configuration Utility. Select the Startup Tab. Look for the InstallShield files issch.exe and isuspm.exe. If you find either or both of these files in the Startup Tab list, uncheck them, click apply then OK. Reboot your machine as directed. After rebooting if all seems well you can put a check in the box that says do not show this box again and all is well. InstallShield from time to time when it updates itself or installs a program loads these files without your permission and a slow PC boot is usually the result. If this doesn't work you can follow the same procedure to uncheck files that load at startup one by one until you find the culprit causing the problem. Hope all goes well, good luck.
Try
by Dango517 - 6/5/09 8:45 PM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92Run Check Disk and Defragmentation.
When it runs does it act erratically having minor glitches, slow downs, hangs, etcetera, never in the same place? If so, does the hard drive make noise of any kind?. If so, replace hard drive.
If not .....
Maybe corrupt file. 
Not good. 10 minutes is a long time. Maybe time to start over by reinstalling OS as a clean installation. Do back ups first!
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Trouble in hardware detection.
by banshdharm - 6/5/09 11:21 PM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92From your description it appears that the computer faces some problem in hardware detection. If you have multiple hard disks remove the extra hard disks one by one and see if a particular hard disk causes the problem. Similarly test each hardware to pinpoint the cause of delay in booting. If the problem is caused by any software you can ascertain that by booting in safe mode.
Services.msc and msconfig help
by waseca kid - 6/6/09 5:00 AM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92For an comparison of the two go to http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm#Services
Using services.msc will speed up your computer. I used service.msc and went from about 8 minutes to 1 minute boot with XP Pro. It works best to review the listing of about 80 processes found on the above web site on one computer while you disable un-needed processes on the second computer. If in doubt, leave the process as it was.
Explorer may have hanged.
by mikebliv - 6/8/09 5:20 AM In reply to: Computer takes forever to boot up by blew92Something similar happened to me. Beyond the one minute or two that the system should have become responsive, the taskbar and a few icons on the desktop would still not display. This is a sign of explorer.exe hanging. I usually bring up the task manager and 'end task' explorer, then select File > New Task (Run...) and type 'explorer.exe'. This will relaunch the taskbar and complete the display of the desktop.
Since this problem only happened after a full boot, and I always used hibernate, it didn't affect me much. The issue eventually disappeared by itself. Have you installed something recently that litters Windows with various services and settings (e.g. iTunes + Quicktime)? Try removing Quicktime. I've had explorer crashing whenever it sees a .mov file (and any other associations taken by Quicktime). Admittedly, it was because of an older version of Quicktime that was distributed with my very new HD camcorder.
Also, make sure you have at least 1Gb or RAM or else you deserve the slow start up.
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