Reboot takes FOREVER... Please help.

[adamantium]

When I hit START, TURN OFF COMPUTER & RESTART, my Win Xp
Professional seems to hang for about 5 min before it
finally resets. During this time there is no drive
activity and absolutely nothing is happening. As stated,
after about 5 min or more, the computer then reboots as
usual. I have hit the reset button after the drive
activity stops and XP comes back up without a problem but
I am worried there may be something seriously wrong. It
is a fresh reinstall after a total FDisk of the hard
drive. I am running Zone Alarm also - but even when ZA is
disabled, WinXP Professional still hangs for about 5 min
at the "Windows is shutting down" screen... Leading me to
believe it is something else. Possibly a Trojan or
worse... Could someone please give me some options to
try? Suggestions that are somewhat safe before I try to
reinstall the XP op again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[adamantium68]

Doh! Sorry this posted in the wrong place! My apologies!

 

[Guest]

Try to:

Empty your prefech folder C:\Windows\Prefetch, eliminate all .pf files.
Empty your temp folders.
Use Windows built in disk clean up utility.
Run Spybot S&D, and your anitvirus program.
If you have Norton Utilities, Run Windoctor
If you want to clean up your registry, I use Regseeker from Hover: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Defragment your hard drive

Go to MSCONFIG and eliminate from start up, by unchecking items that you do not need to start up when Windows starts.

Hope that is of some use to you.