why icons appears very slowly

[liveprices]

When I power onmy pc, the desktop wall paper (bliss) will appear pretty fast
but the desktop icons will take ages to appear.Any reason why is that so?
Scanned the system with AVG8.0, Ad-aware2008 and Spybot 1.6 detected only
ookies.Housecall does not detect any trojan etc except cookies. So have
cleared the temp folder, prefetch folder and history. Also run and cleared
the unwanted desktop icons. Defrag the disk does not seems to help either.
Any idea how I can get it back to normal? Thanks

 

[Bruce Hagen]

When I power onmy pc, the desktop wall paper (bliss) will appear pretty
fast
but the desktop icons will take ages to appear.Any reason why is that so?
Scanned the system with AVG8.0, Ad-aware2008 and Spybot 1.6 detected only
ookies.Housecall does not detect any trojan etc except cookies. So have
cleared the temp folder, prefetch folder and history. Also run and cleared
the unwanted desktop icons. Defrag the disk does not seems to help either.
Any idea how I can get it back to normal? Thanks

What model machine? (Dell, HP, etc.), XP fully patched to SP3? What RAM do
you have?

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Please state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3) when posting to
this newsgroup.

How long is "ages" in minutes?

Is it a Desktop PC or a Notebook PC?

Was a Norton or McAfee application ever installed on the machine?

See...

Help! My computer is slow!
http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/help-my-computer-is-slow.html

Startup Programs: Where do things load from? Do I need all of them? How do
I stop them from loading?
http://aumha.org/a/loads.htm

 

[HeyBub]

When I power onmy pc, the desktop wall paper (bliss) will appear
pretty fast but the desktop icons will take ages to appear.Any reason
why is that so? Scanned the system with AVG8.0, Ad-aware2008 and
Spybot 1.6 detected only ookies.Housecall does not detect any trojan
etc except cookies. So have cleared the temp folder, prefetch folder
and history. Also run and cleared the unwanted desktop icons. Defrag
the disk does not seems to help either. Any idea how I can get it
back to normal? Thanks

Try #121 on the left

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[liveprices]

Noticed that there are 2 AVG icxons on system tray and one of them says
scanning. So uncheck everything in msconfig and its now back to normal. Many
thanks for all the ideas