Slow startup- slow everything.

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Win XP HE SP2. Dell 8300 3.0 Ghz .
PC takes minutes from startup to desktop. All programs much slower than
usual.
I regularly use Defrag, Have Microsoft anti spyware, Panda anti virus, Ad
Aware Spybot, System Mechanic Pro.etc.Have tried everything! Any advice?
Thanks.

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How much RAM do you have?

Alias

"Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

> Win XP HE SP2. Dell 8300 3.0 Ghz .
> PC takes minutes from startup to desktop. All programs much slower than
> usual.
> I regularly use Defrag, Have Microsoft anti spyware, Panda anti virus, Ad
> Aware Spybot, System Mechanic Pro.etc.Have tried everything! Any advice?
> Thanks.

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1536 Mb. 200 Gb. HD

"Alias" wrote:

> How much RAM do you have?
>
> Alias
>
> "Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> > Win XP HE SP2. Dell 8300 3.0 Ghz .
> > PC takes minutes from startup to desktop. All programs much slower than
> > usual.
> > I regularly use Defrag, Have Microsoft anti spyware, Panda anti virus, Ad
> > Aware Spybot, System Mechanic Pro.etc.Have tried everything! Any advice?
> > Thanks.
>
>
>

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Ivee,
All you mentioned is done regularly by System Mechanic Pro. I have re-run
them and it makes no difference.

"lvee" wrote:

> There are a couple of other things you can do to speed up performance.
> Run a disk cleanup, which will among other things, empty you IE temp files,
> which can take up space. You can also purge all restore points, or al but
> the most recent.
> You can also check what's loading at startup by going to start/run type in
> msconfig Then click the startup tab, and uncheck anything you don't need to
> run at startup.
> From your IE toolbar ( assuming that you use IE )go to tools, Options,
> shoot I can't remember what to do from there, I don't use IE anymore, but
> look for temp files folders and cookies, delete them, if there are any left
> after running disk cleanup.
>
>
> "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
> news:eI5o5A1mFHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > How much RAM do you have?
> >
> > Alias
> >
> > "Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> >
> >> Win XP HE SP2. Dell 8300 3.0 Ghz .
> >> PC takes minutes from startup to desktop. All programs much slower than
> >> usual.
> >> I regularly use Defrag, Have Microsoft anti spyware, Panda anti virus,
> >> Ad
> >> Aware Spybot, System Mechanic Pro.etc.Have tried everything! Any advice?
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>
>

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Thanks for the follow-up info. In cases like yours, I would first boot
to Safe Mode and monitor it's time. If it (SM) functions correctly w/
a 30-50 second time then it's not hardware or OS related. Next I
would create a new user profile and try that in Normal boot mode.
If that works within a reasonable time frame then your issue is a
profile specific one and you'll have to do some more detective work
to run down the cause.

"Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news6BE62A6-B365-4590-AC3D-462AF3BA6DAB@microsoft.com...
> System Mechanic Pro used almost daily. Firewall is Panda.
>
> "R. McCarty" wrote:
>
>> Use MSConfig.Exe to list your Startups & Watchdogs. The only
>> issue I see in your listing is "System Mechanic Pro". Have you used
>> it lately to Clean up ? Which Firewall do you use ?
>>
>> "Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:8B568BFB-3F2F-4F8A-86A8-749627DCB97F@microsoft.com...
>> > 1536 Mb. 200 Gb. HD
>> >
>> > "Alias" wrote:
>> >
>> >> How much RAM do you have?
>> >>
>> >> Alias
>> >>
>> >> "Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> >>
>> >> > Win XP HE SP2. Dell 8300 3.0 Ghz .
>> >> > PC takes minutes from startup to desktop. All programs much slower
>> >> > than
>> >> > usual.
>> >> > I regularly use Defrag, Have Microsoft anti spyware, Panda anti
>> >> > virus,
>> >> > Ad
>> >> > Aware Spybot, System Mechanic Pro.etc.Have tried everything! Any
>> >> > advice?
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

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A couple of other things to try:

1) Search for *.tmp files and delete them. Sometimes they may be 0k in size
and can be located in directories other than the usual temp folders.

2) If you have a bunch of fonts, uninstall some that aren't used often.
Sometimes a corrupted font can cause problems. There a quite a few differing
opinions on this. Search the technical articles, but it helped me.

Hope it might help,
PGIL


"Seamus Halford." wrote:

> 1536 Mb. 200 Gb. HD
>
> "Alias" wrote:
>
> > How much RAM do you have?
> >
> > Alias
> >
> > "Seamus Halford." <SeamusHalford@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> >
> > > Win XP HE SP2. Dell 8300 3.0 Ghz .
> > > PC takes minutes from startup to desktop. All programs much slower than
> > > usual.
> > > I regularly use Defrag, Have Microsoft anti spyware, Panda anti virus, Ad
> > > Aware Spybot, System Mechanic Pro.etc.Have tried everything! Any advice?
> > > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >