Slow to get started

[Derek Peters]

In recent weeks my XP home has been getting slower and
slower. It boots up ok, but takes about 30 seconds to
respond to the first click of the start button, and
applications like Word or AOL can take the same amount of
time launch. I've tried a clean boot, the problem seems
to lie with the Start Up items. Where next?

 

[John Hale]

Try regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You might find some rogue applications in here that don't play nice with XP,
or any operating system for that matter.
2nd, I'd get away from AOL, it has a boatload of overhead, this of course is
my unbiased opinion, and I am not a Microsoft employee....

Perhaps one of the newsgroup experts can elaborate on this as well.