Intermittently VERY SLOW

[Calvin M]

Hi. On an intermittent basis (say, one to two times per week), ANY
application that I initiate takes forever to open. Examples: Microsoft
Word can take 2 to 5 minutes, Firefox browser 1 to 2 minutes, Hearts card
game 45 seconds to 1 minute, etc. When this occurs, the CPU is 100%
committed and "Ctrl-Alt-Del" doesn't respond for up to 2 minutes. This
anomaly happens only upon the initial startup of the PC on the given day.
If I shutdown the PC and restart, everything works fine the second time
around, as if nothing unusual occurred the first time. Please help. BTW,
my PC is an HP 735n, with a relatively new (IDE?) hard drive, Windows XP OS,
and Athlon processor. Let me know if you need any more information to help
troubleshoot this problem. Thanks in advance!

 

[Guest]

One probably would start by opening event viewer,chk out the times that
the computer bogged down,certainly thiers an event or warning listed.
Click on the url enclosed in an event/warning,this opens knowlege base
help/support in xp,usually with a fix.