Slow boot up WinXP SP2 Home Edition

[Guest]

My computer boots extremly slow but not all the time. When it does boot slow
it takes 20 mins or just hangs with the blue SP2 bar scrolling from left to
right. That's when I have to hit the reset button. After that I can reboot
with no problems. Seems to happen when it is booted up the first thing in the
morning.I use McAfee virus scan.

Things I have done.
1. virus scan on and of line.
2. scan disk from the recovery console
3. scanned for parasites
4.defrag
5. Scanned for spyware with 3 programs

 

[R. McCarty]

Check your System & Application event logs. What you
describe sounds like a Service that is not starting correctly.
Services are interdependent and have built-in time outs. If
something is "Hanging", there should be an entry (Red Icon)
in one or both logs.
To check, Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc (Press
Enter). The MS Console view is a split-pane like Explorer.
You'll need to expand the view of each log to see the entries.
The logs are chronologically ordered. Double-Click
each Red Icon and a details box will appear with a short
description and a Event ID #. You can research the event
on the following web-site:
http://www.eventid.net/

 

[Guest]

Ok I checked the event viewer and my wmi adaptor svc was disabled so I put
that to manual. I also found only 2 items of the same thing, "source",( disk)
which said I had a bad block of memory. It said to replace the hardrive. This
is a brand new hardrive that I just bought a month ago. I'll try running a
scan disk and defrag and see if that probblem shows up in the event viewer
again. Could this be a false report?

 

[Malke]

Ok I checked the event viewer and my wmi adaptor svc was disabled so I
put that to manual. I also found only 2 items of the same thing,
"source",( disk) which said I had a bad block of memory. It said to
replace the hardrive. This is a brand new hardrive that I just bought
a month ago. I'll try running a scan disk and defrag and see if that
probblem shows up in the event viewer again. Could this be a false
report?

Since you have already run Chkdsk (note that there is no "Scandisk" in
XP), did you run it as "chkdsk /f"? If not, do that. Otherwise, use a
drive diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive mftr.'s website.
Usually you will download the file and make a bootable floppy with it.
Boot with the media and do a thorough test. If the drive has physical
errors, replace it. The fact that the drive is new means nothing. In
fact, if hardware is faulty it will usually fail quite soon after
purchase.

Malke