Delay after start-up

[Jorg]

Hi,

I have a problem I had before and got fixed as a result of
a post here - but, shame on me, I forgot what to do :-(

Here is what happens:

I just set up a brand new system and started from scratch
with a new installation of XP Home on a formatted hard
drive.

On start-up, the system boots and gets straight to the
Windows desktop - no problem. But when the desktop
appears, the system is not yet ready for me - it just
looks that way. When I try to open an application (any
application) immediately after the desktop shows, the
application starts opening but then freezes for a good
minute or so before it comes up, ready to be used.

The problem must be with XP because if I wait for one or
two minutes after the desktop shows up and then start an
application, the application opens in a flash. Please
remember, the system is new - no virus, no worm, no
spyware, no nothing!

The funny thing is that the hard drive does not appear to
be doing anything in the minute in which the system seems
to freeze. Only at the very end of the minute there is a
short burst of HDD activity and then the system is ready
to go.

Last time I had the same issue, one of you experts told me
to tick or untick a box somewhere and the problem was
gone! It is just that I cannot remember which box it was...

Any ideas anyone? I promise to remember too!

 

[Malke]

Hi,

I have a problem I had before and got fixed as a result of
a post here - but, shame on me, I forgot what to do :-(

Here is what happens:

I just set up a brand new system and started from scratch
with a new installation of XP Home on a formatted hard
drive.

On start-up, the system boots and gets straight to the
Windows desktop - no problem. But when the desktop
appears, the system is not yet ready for me - it just
looks that way. When I try to open an application (any
application) immediately after the desktop shows, the
application starts opening but then freezes for a good
minute or so before it comes up, ready to be used.

The problem must be with XP because if I wait for one or
two minutes after the desktop shows up and then start an
application, the application opens in a flash. Please
remember, the system is new - no virus, no worm, no
spyware, no nothing!

The funny thing is that the hard drive does not appear to
be doing anything in the minute in which the system seems
to freeze. Only at the very end of the minute there is a
short burst of HDD activity and then the system is ready
to go.

Last time I had the same issue, one of you experts told me
to tick or untick a box somewhere and the problem was
gone! It is just that I cannot remember which box it was...

Any ideas anyone? I promise to remember too!

Jorg, do a search on Google Groups for your previous post. Go to the
Advanced Search and put in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general as the
newsgroup and yourself as the author. I don't know what you were told,
either. BTW, I hope you have a firewall and all Windows Update security
patches installed, as well as an antivirus. Just because your system is
new doesn't mean it isn't vulnerable. In fact, if you went online
without patching the os and without a firewall, you could get MSblaster
easily.

Malke