windows xp professional

[Guest]

From windows xp (To Begin ,Click Your Username)
Then
Welcome Loading Your Personal Setting.
It then takes 35secs to reach desktop with wallpaper,no icons.
After 4minutes icons appear on screen then system is fine.
Why does it take so long to get from loading settings to icons appearing on
screen?
Everything else works fine,switching between usernames etc....

 

[Guest]

What programs are loading at startup? Is one of them set to check the system
at this time? Some AV programs will have a check at boot option. To see what
is starting at bootup go>start>run and type in msconfig and click ok, now
click the startup tab and uncheck any programs that you don't need at
startup, and believe you me, there are few that you do need at start up. I
have only four small ones. Zone Alarm is usually very slow to load and then I
have my AV and a Card reader as well as a vid card program that loads my
personal settings. That's about all. My boots from cold to usable desktop in
about a minute and a half. Boot to desktop takes about 45 seconds and then I
have to wait for the programs to load and as mentioned, Zone Alarm is the
last. TTFN.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Have you checked the system for viruses and spyware/malware? You might
consider also defragmenting the drive.

As the problem occurs when the desktop is reached it maybe a program that is
loading in the background. This 'could be' spyware or a legitimate program,
it is difficult to tell. You might try clicking Start and then Run. In the
Run dialog box type: msconfig

This will open the configuration window. Click the startup tab to see what
programs are set to load as the PC boots. It may be opne of these that is
taking longer than it should be. For that matter loading the application at
startup may not even be necessary. The only way you can really find out is
by disabling the different programs one by one and see what make a
difference.


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