Windows Locked Up at start time

[Guest]

After starting my CPU with Windows XP Pro, I double-click on my Outloo
icon, or any other program icon for that matter, and it takes anywhere fro
1-6 minutes for the program to start

Any ideas on why this is

Thanks in advance for the suggestions

 

[Fraser]

After starting my CPU with Windows XP Pro, I double-click on my Outlook
icon, or any other program icon for that matter, and it takes anywhere from
1-6 minutes for the program to start.

Any ideas on why this is?

Here's a list of things it could be:

Low drive space (clean up some)
Spyware (try googling for "AdAware" for fix)
Virus (you do have a scanner, right? ;-)
Too much running (look in the sys tray next to the clock)
Not enough memory.

Good luck.

Fraser.

 

[Guest]

thank you Fraser foy your reply...but I Have More Than 20 gigas of space....I have enough memory y I have the Norton 2004 Installed.. and "spyware.." I don´t think so because the first time I Format and Installed The Windows XP, the problem also ocurred...
And is not just me who have this problem... a friend of mine and some people here in this newsgroup..
I also installed The Service Pack 1...and it don´t seem to have repair the problem..

ANy other suggestions?

 

[Fraser]

thank you Fraser foy your reply...but I Have More Than 20 gigas of

space....I have enough memory y I have the Norton 2004 Installed.. and
"spyware.." I don´t think so because the first time I Format and Installed
The Windows XP, the problem also ocurred...

And is not just me who have this problem... a friend of mine and some

people here in this newsgroup..

I also installed The Service Pack 1...and it don´t seem to have repair the problem..

ANy other suggestions?

Could be trying to contact another machine or service on the network that
isn't there anymore. That would cause timeouts etc that would slow things
down a bit. Are you internet connected during boot, or do you use dial-up.

Or, could be a bad hard-drive. I had that once, the PC just dies (the
taskbar locks up) for 5-10 secs now and again, then comes back.

I also had a problem with an IMAP server that was a bit slow. It would take
30 secs for the log in screen to appear while it refreshed the unread mail
count.

Hope this helps. You could also take a look on the Event Viewer, where the
system logs things that happen. Right-click on "My Computer" and select
"Manage", it's in there.

Fraser.