Slow Desktop Load

Ian, check here for virus, trojans and spyware. You can use these
sites.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://security.kolla.de/news.php?lang=en

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

"Ian Deutsch" wrote in message
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First, system specs:

P4 2.8 HT
1.5GB DDR 433 Ram (dual channel 2x512, 2x256)
2 120 GB SATA HD's in RAID 0 config
MSI Geforce FX 5900 Ultra
on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board

Ok, I did a clean install of Windows XP Pro Corporate with slipstreamed
SP1. Then I installed all the latest drivers. Afterwards I installed NAV
8.0 Corp and Office 2003 Pro. (If questioning legitimacy of software, I'm a
Drexel University student and we get all this software) I went on to
install my normal basic software (trillian 2.0, winamp 5, etc). After all
of this my computer seems to take forever to load the desktop. It will get
past all the other stuff quickly, play the startup sound and all, but then
sit on a screen just showing my desktop background. During this time the
Ctrl-Alt-Del interrupt keys do not do anything. Eventually explorer loads
and everything is fine. I have about 1.1 gb of free ram after boot, page
file never sees any use.

To troubleshoot I have done the following:
Turned off NAV scanning of network drives
Turned off the page file (somehow having 1.5gb of ram allows me to do this
now)
Turned off system restore (actually I always leave that off)
Turned off drive indexing
Ran defrag (said it didn't need it, but ran anyway)
Ran Scandisk (no errors found)
I never have anything load on startup, aside from NAV

Another note is that sometimes, explorer.exe will cause an error and cause
it to close and then reload. I'm still working on narrowing down that
problem, but not sure if it could be related. What could I be missing?

Ian, take a look here

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...error+in+WinXP
"Ian Deutsch" wrote in message
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Ran Symantec AV Corp 8 with latest defs, found no viruses
Ran that trendmicro virus scan, which scanned fewer files than symantec
and still found nothing
I run spybot regularly with latest updates and immunities, but ran it
anyway and still found nothing but a few cookies

There are no viruses/trojans/spyware etc on my pc. I keep it very clean
:-D.

The only error I can find in the event log is:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1002
Date: 1/14/2004
Time: 7:33:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: IAN
Description:
The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.