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badgolferman
My work laptop is becoming almost unbearable lately. After logon the
wallpaper appears immediately but the Taskbar and Desktop icons take
fully three minutes before they even appear! Add another two or more
minutes for the disk activity to slow down and it can take me at least
five minutes after logon to be able to open any application.
During this time the disk activity LED is essentially solid on, so
something is happening in the background. After everything stops the
laptop acts normally and is not slow during use. There is one
application, FreeCommander, that once launched takes minutes before it
appears. The Task Manager shows the process running and subsequent
relaunches just show more of the same process. None of these symptoms
appeared until recently and I cannot pinpoint any significant change
that may have occurred. I have tried reinstalling FreeCommander but
the problem stays. Reinstalling Adobe Acrobat did cure its identical
symptom to FreeCommander.
Tech support suggests replacing the NTUSER.DAT file with the generic
one that comes with a clean installation. Any thoughts on that
approach or do you have a different suggestion?
wallpaper appears immediately but the Taskbar and Desktop icons take
fully three minutes before they even appear! Add another two or more
minutes for the disk activity to slow down and it can take me at least
five minutes after logon to be able to open any application.
During this time the disk activity LED is essentially solid on, so
something is happening in the background. After everything stops the
laptop acts normally and is not slow during use. There is one
application, FreeCommander, that once launched takes minutes before it
appears. The Task Manager shows the process running and subsequent
relaunches just show more of the same process. None of these symptoms
appeared until recently and I cannot pinpoint any significant change
that may have occurred. I have tried reinstalling FreeCommander but
the problem stays. Reinstalling Adobe Acrobat did cure its identical
symptom to FreeCommander.
Tech support suggests replacing the NTUSER.DAT file with the generic
one that comes with a clean installation. Any thoughts on that
approach or do you have a different suggestion?