Bootup takes a good 2 or 3 minutes.

[Guest]

Bootup takes a good 2 or 3 minutes before the startup music plays. Things take forever to open. There is also a file that keeps appearing on the desktop called "~" which when deleted reappears at startup. I have scanned both with NAV and online with Symantec and come up with nothing. Any ideas?

 

[Mickey]

How about some details of the computer. Amount of ram, type of harddrive,
speed of processor, etc

Bootup takes a good 2 or 3 minutes before the startup music plays. Things

take forever to open. There is also a file that keeps appearing on the
desktop called "~" which when deleted reappears at startup. I have scanned
both with NAV and online with Symantec and come up with nothing. Any ideas?

 

[ctei]

I am having the same problem and it just started a few
weeks ago. I have a 2.5 mhz pc running XP, 512mb. Checked
for virus, used task manager, Bootvis, Boot Log Analyser,
and disabled programs/files from startup but nothing has
helped. I can see the events taking place during bootup
but can't tell what is taking so long and can't get XP to
provide the necessary timing data.

 

[ctei]

As I responded earlier, I am having the same problem. I
just found and you might try going to START, Control
Panel, Event Viewer. When I did this I found several
applications that had a "hanging" error message including
Explorer. I have not found the cause yet but this is the
most progress I have made in weeks. Hope this helps with
your problem.

-----Original Message-----
Bootup takes a good 2 or 3 minutes before the startup

music plays. Things take forever to open. There is also
a file that keeps appearing on the desktop called "~"
which when deleted reappears at startup. I have scanned
both with NAV and online with Symantec and come up with
nothing. Any ideas?

 

[ctei]

Sorry, I left out a step. From Control Panel got to
Administrative Tools then Event Viewer.

 

[Guest]

Oh yeh sorry - it is a brand new HP laptop with 40 Gb HDD,
2.3 Ghz Processor and 256K Ram!

 

[Guest]

Thank you - will go to these things and have a look! It
is really puzzling!

Sorry taken so long to reply but could not get back to
this page - by connection kept on timing out - had to do
this at midnight to get a good speed!

Will hopefully come back if I find anything!

Thanks