Brenda
I would look in Event Viewer at the logged errors.
1. To open Event Viewer, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, double-click Event Viewer and select System for system errors or Application for application errors. Look for Error in the Type column and double click on Error to reveal a Description of the error. This can be copied by using Clipboard Viewer (see later).
2. Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should double click for further information and you can copy using copy and paste.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)
3. For some errors you will find "+ Related Knowledge Base Article", which if double clicked takes you to the Knowledge Base Article containing a suggested solution.
There always seems to be a step 2 but not always a step 3.
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports (Step 1). 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. It can be helpful to place a shortcut to Event Viewer on your Desktop.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Brenda Goldsberry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:03a101c34582$f6bbe580$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My computer takes about 10 minutes to load Windows XP and
> another 3-4 minutes to load my setting now. I believe it
> is checking for the last known configuration that worked.
> This happened after a power outage. (I do have an UPS and
> it shuts down automatically.) The first time you open
> each program after you have restarted windows it takes
> abut 3 times longer than normal to open the program,
> after the first time the programs work at normal speed
> once it has gone the opening process. How do I fix this
> problem, it is extremely annoying.
>
> I have 512 MB RAM, so memory is not the problem
>
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