slow to boot, sometimes freezes

[Kenny S]

I have winxp pro. The installation of windows is about a year old and its
updated with SP2.
I have installed a lot of progams and it seems that by installing them the
pc started to boot slower and slower
during the months that passed. I tried disabling the startup programs
leaving only a very few of them that I need.
But that does not help very much.
My pc is also clean of viruses ans spyware. It takes lots of time from the
point of the welcome screen
where you enter the password to get the interface up and the disk to stop
thrashing like crazy.
Sometimes something happenes and the pc freezes, meaning that the mouse can
move on the
screen but I cannot close or start another program.. and ALT CTRL DEL does
not do anything.
The only option there is to press the RESET button and reload windows hoping
that it will not freeze again.

when I log onto another user the freeze does not happen, even though it has
the same startup programs, and its somewhat faster.

Are there other things being loaded like ocx, dll or other files that become
a big burden when
you install more and more programs? How can I control them?

I was about to transfer my files to another user account that was faster and
use that as my main log on,
but I saw that on the new users Outlook Express opened alot slower, so I
abandoned that Idea.

I am sure that if I format and reinstall it will be fast again, but I am
trying to avoid this.


Any help, ideas, tips would be great.

thanks in advance

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Could you have too many programs running in the background?

What processes are occupying your CPU? (Open Task Manager to find out.)

Are you maintaining your computer regularly? (Defragment, disc cleanup,
eyc)?

Ted Zieglar

 

[Kenny S]

I have now 48 processes and I am defraging the harddrive now....
But I dont think that those are the problem...
A screen capture of the taskmanager with the processes is here:
The perfectdisk.exe and PDengine are the defragmenter I am running now...

http://www.computerboom.net/download/kenny/processes.gif

most of theses tasks I know what they do, but there are some like

alg.exe
hpgs2wnf.exe (probably something from my hp printer)
sdncp.exe
wdfmgr
csrss.exe
smss.exe
spoolsv.exe


that I dont know what they are

 

[Kenny S]

I found out about those processes and fixed them.. most of them were XP
system things

 

[Plato]

I have installed a lot of progams and it seems that by installing them the
pc started to boot slower and slower
Any help, ideas, tips would be great.

Time for a major tuneup.

 

[Guest]

my xp shuts down automatically and shows the message that "the process
lsas.exe terminated unexpectedly and the system will now shutdoen and
restart".and before this happens i get a message that LSA shell export
version terminated.So please tell me how to stop this auto shutdown

 

[Kenny S]

that is the SASSER worm (virus) creating your problem!
There is a fix for that here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9e-da3f-43b9-a4f1-af243b6168f3&displaylang=en

download and install

 

[Kenny S]

in order to stop the countdown and download the fix I told you about do
this:

once the countdown starts go to START>RUN
and type: shutdown -a
then press enter

that will stop the shutdown and let you download and install the fix.

 

[Lester Stiefel]

my xp shuts down automatically and shows the message that "the process
lsas.exe terminated unexpectedly and the system will now shutdoen and
restart".and before this happens i get a message that LSA shell export
version terminated.So please tell me how to stop this auto shutdown

:

Is your "My Documents folder still on the same drive as
the OS?

Try creating a new partition and exporting the folder to
that partition. May help, particularly if you have lots of
Document files, mp3s, pictures or more in there. Lots of
internal baggage slows down the OS, as it has to hunt for
critical file fragments to boot.
After that try finding another copy of lsass.exe and copying
that in to the old files place. If windows says its a
protected file and wants to restart to copy/install, let it
do so. Then run disk cleanup/defrag cycle then chkdsk.

I had this happen a couple of times too until i
partitioned my drive(s) and categorized the data. Now it's
very,very rare.