Slow Starts

[Dick Reuben]

Running XP Home SP2 with a gig of memory.

All of a sudden some programs, including Agent, are very slow to open
nd close. I've run my antivirus and antispyware and registry cleaner
programsand I also defragged.

I ran Chkdsk in read-only mode, and it quit after the second function
telling me that "errors found and chkdsk can't continue".. I then ran
it twice with the /F switch but whatever got fixed didn't solve my
problem.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to what else I can try, short of
reinstallng Windows?

 

[Poprivet]

Running XP Home SP2 with a gig of memory.

All of a sudden some programs, including Agent, are very slow to open
nd close. I've run my antivirus and antispyware and registry cleaner
programsand I also defragged.

I ran Chkdsk in read-only mode, and it quit after the second function
telling me that "errors found and chkdsk can't continue".. I then ran
it twice with the /F switch but whatever got fixed didn't solve my
problem.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to what else I can try, short of
reinstallng Windows?

Try Microsoft's BootVis for XP. It has a registry "optimize" feature that
sometimes helps. Doesn't make any registry changes, just reorganizes
sequences for the most part. Sometimes it works wonders, sometimes it's no
help. but it can't hurt.

HTH
Pop`

 

[SingaporeWebDesign]

Hello,

Might be possible that your hard disk is failing.

Corrupt disc errors may indicate that the disk is failing. Try running a
full sector scan with HDTune..

http://www.hdtune.com/

...and doing the error scan.. it is free.

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