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Richard Goh
I am trying to fix a neighbors XP. It was booting very slowly, Dell wanted
her to format and reinstall.
I ran AdAware and Spybot, removed 200 suspect files.
I cleaned her temp folder (956 files) and it worked great for one night.
(10-15 seconds to boot)
She then tried to backup some music files to a CD and tried to copy too much
to one cd-r and it froze.
Then today it started to boot very slowly again. (about 2 minutes to boot)
I checked it this afternoon, no spyware, no files in the temp folder.
(we had already uncheck most items in the msconfig start folder and removed
files from the "startup" menu.)
I downloaded and ran bootvis from MS.
It reports that it takes 87 seconds for the registry and page files. Then
25 seconds for logon and services.
Hard Drive diagnostics from Dell and from Maxtor show a good hard drive.
Any ideas what is causing this long boot cycle?
System is a 2.4 GHz Intel processor, 256 Megs of RAM and 40 GB Hard drive
which is less than 25 % full.
Dell Model 8250, about 8 months old.
her to format and reinstall.
I ran AdAware and Spybot, removed 200 suspect files.
I cleaned her temp folder (956 files) and it worked great for one night.
(10-15 seconds to boot)
She then tried to backup some music files to a CD and tried to copy too much
to one cd-r and it froze.
Then today it started to boot very slowly again. (about 2 minutes to boot)
I checked it this afternoon, no spyware, no files in the temp folder.
(we had already uncheck most items in the msconfig start folder and removed
files from the "startup" menu.)
I downloaded and ran bootvis from MS.
It reports that it takes 87 seconds for the registry and page files. Then
25 seconds for logon and services.
Hard Drive diagnostics from Dell and from Maxtor show a good hard drive.
Any ideas what is causing this long boot cycle?
System is a 2.4 GHz Intel processor, 256 Megs of RAM and 40 GB Hard drive
which is less than 25 % full.
Dell Model 8250, about 8 months old.