Slow Starts

[Dick Reuben]

Running XP Home w/SP2.

All of a sudden it takes an abnormally long time for folders to open
or programs to start when I click a desktop icon.

I've defragged, run virus and spyware scans, and also run a couple of
regisry repair programs...nothing helps.

You got any good ideas <g>?

 

[Galen]

In Dick Reuben had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Running XP Home w/SP2.

All of a sudden it takes an abnormally long time for folders to open
or programs to start when I click a desktop icon.

I've defragged, run virus and spyware scans, and also run a couple of
regisry repair programs...nothing helps.

You got any good ideas <g>?

ACK! No reg repair apps. You can (I've done it) bloat one so huge that it's
full of pure unadulterated silliness and still get the same benchmarks
before and after. Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors.

Anyhow, not an idea (yet) but a question...

All of a sudden... I'm a firm believer in no such critter as "all of a
sudden" in most cases. Did you install anything prior? Make any changes
prior? Of that's caused by shell context handler's loaded though - and this
is insane - I recently saw the same thing happen but (believe it or not) it
was just a single side of RAM that died on double sided RAM. (That was an
odd one, truly odd...)

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

My other computer (not the one that I use now), have big slowdown as well. It
is pentium 3, happened after installing sp2, but after several restarts, it
started to run normally.

 

[ColTom2]

You need to Run msconfig and go to the StartUp Tab and see all the applications that you running on Startup. I am sure there are some that you do not need that is requiring additional time both at Startup and Shutdown.

Also if you do not have CCleaner installed it's free and one of the best for cleaning out temporary and redundant files. Go to: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/


Running XP Home w/SP2.

All of a sudden it takes an abnormally long time for folders to open
or programs to start when I click a desktop icon.

I've defragged, run virus and spyware scans, and also run a couple of
regisry repair programs...nothing helps.

You got any good ideas <g>?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You need to Run msconfig and go to the StartUp Tab and see all the
applications that you running on Startup. I am sure there are some
that you do not need that is requiring additional time both at
Startup and Shutdown.

Unlikely that that's the problem, since he says "all of a sudden." My guess
is that he just got infested with spyware

 

[Galen]

In WTan had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

My other computer (not the one that I use now), have big slowdown as
well. It is pentium 3, happened after installing sp2, but after
several restarts, it started to run normally.

Hmm... That wasn't much of an answer so I'm going to go with my hunch on
this one.

G³ - Windows > All Platforms + General: Malware Cleaning and Repair:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Galen]

In Ken Blake, MVP had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Unlikely that that's the problem, since he says "all of a sudden." My
guess is that he just got infested with spyware

Yeah my hunch was that his scans had missed something and I'd asked for
additional details and didn't get a whole lot to go on in return. So that's
pretty much what I just sent 'em though the resulting page is rather generic
and due to be updated soon. I was kinda sorta fishing for "well I'd
installed _____" from "____" and... Alas, just like fishing, I seldom catch
anything that way, just generic responses.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes