APPLICATIONS TAKE LITERALLY 5 MINUTES TO OPEN AFTER REBOOT

[Guest]

PLEASE HELP - I am posting this again as a new question because I am still having the problem.

I am running WINDOWS XP Home Edition. Whenever I reboot my computer or shut it down and restart, all my programs take literally 5 minutes to open. If I connect to the internet to read my mail, OUTLOOK takes 5 minutes to open! NETSCAPE takes 5 minutes to open. NORTON SYSTEM WORKS takes 5 minutes to open.

I ran a virus scan, no virus.
I defragmented my hardrive.
I ran Ad-aware.
I ran Spybot
I ran msconfig and I disabled all the start-up entries.

Eventually the program does open, and it runs fine, but getting it to open takes literally 5 minutes from the time I double click the Application icon.
It's almost like the computer has to "warm up" for 5 minutes after it's turned on .

After approximately 5 minutes, the applications launch windows equal to the amount of times I'ver clicked on the icon. If I click on OUTLOOK ten times - in five minutes (and it takes that long) up come ten identical OUTLOOK Windows! This happens with all my programs.

I'd like to avoid doing a "CLEAN INSTALL" if possible.

Any other ideas? Please help.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Quentin David Jones]

Greetings,

I had a client with a similar issue.

I fixed that case by totally REMOVING Nortons and reinstalling it (which was
NOT easy.)

Quentin

Have you done all critical updates?

 

[DC6093]

Hi,
There are two things that may be causing the long pause after you start
XP:
1st - click start, run, type "msconfig" (sans quotes) go to the services tab
and click on it. look for something called "Background Intelligent Transfer
Service" if it is checked off, click on the box to disable it. click
OK/Apply, close and reboot your PC. If that works, GREAT!!!, if not then:

2nd - NAV is searching for the ip address for your NIC (Network Card). The
work around here is simple enough: Go to my connections / Connections to >
Click "show all connections". right click on "local area connection", go to
properties, click once on TCP/IP, and then click on properties. a new page
will open. click the radio button that says"use the following IP address".
where it says IP Address: type 192.168.0.1, under subnet mask type:
255.255.255.0 Click Ok, close all windows, and reboot.
GL. If I've missed any steps, let me know.

 

[Guest]

Just to let you know, I totally uninstalled NORTON ANTI VIRUS and reinstalled it with all the critical updates. Seems to have solved the problem at the moment...I'm waiting to see how long it lasts.

Thank you for your advice.