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Guest
I'm about to embark on a quest to solve a problem through trial and error,
and I'd like to know if anyone else has seen this before I start finding out
what HW or SW is causing the issue.
I have Windows XP Home running on a four year old Dell Machine. It has all
the updates and I run Symantic Antivirus as well as Zone Alarms firewall --
both the lastest edition and both running fine. I say that to let you know I
think the likelihood of this being virus or trojan related to be very low.
I've done scans with the antivirus as well as with several adaware type
programs.
Here's the symptom -- as soon as startup begins, before the Windows splash
screen, the bottom of the screen fills with white dashes and the dashes fill
in, from right to left, to mark the progress of the windows starts up. Once
the white dashes become a solid white bar windows starts normally. The real
irritating thing about this is that it takes 15 minutes for this to complete.
I've never seen anything like this. There's nothing that I've changed on the
HW or SW side recently to cause this change. In short I'm puzzled -- not so
much because of the long start-up -- but because I've never seen this white
colored progress bar in a Windows startup before. Has anyone else ever seen
this behavior?
I'm expecting that I've got some piece of hardware failing but it could also
be something in the startup. Anyway, if anyone's ever seen this sort of
behavior, let me know.
and I'd like to know if anyone else has seen this before I start finding out
what HW or SW is causing the issue.
I have Windows XP Home running on a four year old Dell Machine. It has all
the updates and I run Symantic Antivirus as well as Zone Alarms firewall --
both the lastest edition and both running fine. I say that to let you know I
think the likelihood of this being virus or trojan related to be very low.
I've done scans with the antivirus as well as with several adaware type
programs.
Here's the symptom -- as soon as startup begins, before the Windows splash
screen, the bottom of the screen fills with white dashes and the dashes fill
in, from right to left, to mark the progress of the windows starts up. Once
the white dashes become a solid white bar windows starts normally. The real
irritating thing about this is that it takes 15 minutes for this to complete.
I've never seen anything like this. There's nothing that I've changed on the
HW or SW side recently to cause this change. In short I'm puzzled -- not so
much because of the long start-up -- but because I've never seen this white
colored progress bar in a Windows startup before. Has anyone else ever seen
this behavior?
I'm expecting that I've got some piece of hardware failing but it could also
be something in the startup. Anyway, if anyone's ever seen this sort of
behavior, let me know.