Start-Up Suddenly Slow

[Guest]

Just began last week, start-up stalls, no cpu activity for several minutes
then resumes start-up (Dell laptop). Prior to this had no problems. Anyone
else experiencing this? I am suspicious of a recent MS update, anyone else?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Look in the Application and Systems logs for Event Viewer for persistence
Warning and Error Reports and post copies here.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, Event
Viewer.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&Produc...

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

How much RAM memory do you have? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring Task Manager
and select the Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge and the
Peak?


How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on
each drive / partition. How is the drive formatted -FAT32 or NTFS. To
get this information whilst in Windows Explorer place the cursor on each
drive in turn, right click and select Properties.


What is your CPU speed?



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Hope this helps.


Gerry
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Hope this helps.


Gerry
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[Guest]

Gerry -

I also am experiencing this problem all of a sudden.

In the Event Viewer I DID find one called USERENV. It says:

Windows saved user YOUR-25BB0B68CA\Admin registry while an application or
service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the
user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is
no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

But it seems as if this error goes back further than the problem.

Ram, Hard Drive and Speed are all fine.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,