slow boot.....

[Guest]

I've recently upgraded to broadband & at about the same time renewed my Panda
anti-virus, and defragmented (whatever that means - I'm told it's a good
idea!).
Once I'd remembered to turn off the windows firewall, things run smoothly
except that the computer takes about five times as long to boot up. Is it
something I've done?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Why would you turn off the Windows Firewall?
If you disable Panda AV, does the system boot faster?

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[Gerry Cornell]

Mel

Invited the nasties to come on board by turning off the Firewall perhaps?

How much RAM memory do you have? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring Task
Manager and select the Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge
and the Peak?

How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on
each drive / partition. How is the drive formatted -FAT32 or NTFS. To
get this information whilst in Windows Explorer place the cursor on each
drive in turn, right click and select Properties.

What is the CPU?

Look in the System and Application logs of Event Viewer and post copies
of Warning and Error Reports since you made the changes.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools,
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;enus;308427&Product=winxp

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event
Viewer. Now start your message(email) and do a paste into the body of the
message. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
complete with links into the message. Make sure this is the first paste
after
exiting from Event Viewer.


Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

I've recently upgraded to broadband & at about the same time renewed
my Panda anti-virus, and defragmented (whatever that means - I'm told
it's a good idea!).
Once I'd remembered to turn off the windows firewall,

Why? Are you running another firewall instead?

things run
smoothly except that the computer takes about five times as long to
boot up. Is it something I've done?

If you've been running without a firewall, yes that's the likely reason. You
may have malware installed.