slow startup

[Andy Healey]

Hi All

everything was fine with XP home for about 9 months and in the last few
days it is taking 3 minutes to boot up each time.

What happens is, I power up, the hard disc starting whirring and then on
screen in the lower left hand corner the cursor justs flashes for about two
minutes, after that it disappears and the screen changes to display the XP
home logo and the blue bar underneath, from this point it loads as fast as
normal and once I log on there no problems.

Its just the two minutes waiting for the logo screen to appear.

Any ideas?

cheers

Andy

 

[Byte]

Your loading up too many programs at startup and
utilizing a lot of your CPU's resources. Do this:
Start/Run/type MSCONFIG and press Enter. Now go to the
Startup tab and uncheck/disable everything except your
anti-virus program, if Norton, it will start with NAV.
Click Apply/OK and reboot. Now you have a "lean, mean
machine" and will boot in about 20 seconds. Disabling
programs does NOT delete them only stops them from
activating. After rebooting a window will pop up stating
that you have reset your startup, just click do not show
this again and your all set.

 

[Alain]

It is the time reinstall your OS