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December 4, 2005 at 8:40 am #20830TigerbladeParticipant
This problem started about two weeks ago or so. I noticed that my computer was taking abnormally long to start up – about 2+ minutes from login to usability. I haven’t changed anything major on my computer that I can think of. Here’s what I’ve done thus far:
1. Disk cleanup and defragged several times.
2. Run full complement of security software – adaware, spybot, hijackthis, mcafee virus scan, a-squared, ms antispyware, the whole works. turned up nada.
3. Run Bootvis, let it do its thing. No difference in boot-time.
4. Gone through my services list, made sure nothing extra was running.
5. Gone through MSConfig, nothing there that wasnt there before this started happening.It’s rather annoying, and frustrating since I can’t figure out why this is taking so long to start. It goes from the login screen (please enter your password) to my wallpaper, then just sits there for two minutes with no apparent disk use or anything… no taskbar, no icons, nothing. just the wallpaper. i went through this topic and some of the links in there, none of which seemed to be much help. any ideas?
I’m on a Dell Inspiron 8600 — WinXP Pro SP2, 512mb RAM, 80gb HDD, 1.6ghz Pentium-M
December 4, 2005 at 5:49 pm #134209DavidParticipantJust after login start tapping Ctrl+Shift+Esc, the task manager should come up and you’ll be able to look at what’s running as your user, and whats running as a service, maybe you’ll get a clue there? If that opens immediately and the taskbar still doesn’t appear (and explorer.exe isn’t running as well), then try force-starting explorer and see what happens.
December 4, 2005 at 7:15 pm #134210imported_EvilSephMemberTried defragging/re-organising your registry? This has been a cause for me…a multitude of times. Either that, or failing memory…heck, there’s far too many reasons a startup could slow down.
December 7, 2005 at 7:24 pm #134212GoldenKnight8987MemberTry a different virus program such as AVG Free… the same problem happened to a friend of mine. The problem was a bunch of trojan viruses that McAffee was NOT picking up (even though it was up to date….. yes…. very comforting, huh?), but it was just too big of a problem to fix, so we waited until it was usable, backed up most files we wanted to keep and I just wiped the hard drive and reinstalled windows. It runs like treasure now! That will fix almost anything 🙂
December 7, 2005 at 8:30 pm #134211TigerbladeParticipanti’ve used AVG in the past… i wasn’t impressed with it at all. it rarely fixed any problems that it managed to find. it was more of a “hey i found something. want it fixed? sorry dave i’m afraid i can’t do that.”
and lately its extremely sporadic. doesnt seem to be doing it all the time, just every once in a while… i’m still hunting for a reason.
December 7, 2005 at 11:19 pm #134213GoldenKnight8987MemberHmm…. when I bought McAffee everytime I used it updated it etc it never found half these viruses that were later found with other programs.
Here: Download TrojanRemover, get rid of the trojans and remove it after a few days.
I am almost positive it’s a trojan your virus scanner isnt finding.
If you dont want to at least try my advice, then all I can say is good luck, because I tried adding my 2 cents.
Good Luck!
P.S. At least try scanning for them with this program… even if you dont doubt the integrity of your virus scanner. it’s not a virus scanner, just searches for trojans
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