long time to boot

[Guest]

Recent boot-ups this day. After XP Home (black
background) page with "waiting bar", all-black screen
lasted over 10 seconds before light blue welcome page
arrived.

Norton internet security sometimes not usable (ie I was
prompted I had no privilege to use it), but other times
usable.

Is it an XP problem or trojan problem?

Norton Virus scan, latest definitions, OK.

MANY Thanks

 

[madmax]

Recent boot-ups this day. After XP Home (black
background) page with "waiting bar", all-black screen
lasted over 10 seconds before light blue welcome page
arrived.

Norton internet security sometimes not usable (ie I was
prompted I had no privilege to use it), but other times
usable.

Is it an XP problem or trojan problem?

Norton Virus scan, latest definitions, OK.

MANY Thanks

Is windows updated?
Have you used any spyware scanners?
There are many things that will slow down boot up.
How many programs are starting up?
Scan your system with a online scanner such as house call.
Norton may have missed something.
Try some of the tools in my sig.
-max

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Programs that I use and recommend (all are free)
Many thanks to all the people who make these fine products!
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3
http://www.safer-networking.org/
Spyware Blaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spyware Guard
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Sygate Personal Firewall
http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Avast! For Home
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html
Eraser 5.3
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
CwShredder
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html
HijackThis
http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

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