Slow startup on XP Pro.

[Patrick Casher]

My son has a desktop PIII on a wireless router they use for the internet and
for the children to play games with. I'm sure it's been abused. It takes
about 5 min to be able to access the start menu. The boot screen comes on
and after a minute the keyboard lights flash and it proceeds to slowly boot
up. There doesn't appear to be too many fonts in explorer or word. I tried
doing a restore going back as far as I could and it didn't help. Ran
ad-aware, emptied trash bin, deleted cookies and internet files, ran disk
cleanup and left it doing a defrag. I'm afraid I might have to reload XP.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Patrick

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Patrick,

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP [Q310560]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560

HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316434

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone