~10 minutes to boot up--XP Pro

-----Original Message-----
I have a friend who suddenly couldn't open Internet
Explorer at all and only
got the "Send" or "Don't Send" error report thingy every
time and he also
had some kind of security problem when he tried to run
Netscape instead so I
ended up formatting and re-installing XP for him. After
installing the
operating system I then went ahead and installed sp1,
Norton AV, Zone Alarm,
and several other applications. After thinking all was
GOOD all of a sudden
it takes at least 10 minutes for the computer hard drive
to stop cranking.
It takes 3 or 4 minutes for the start button and clock to
come up.
Sometimes it reboots itself during this time.

So anyway, I start looking at the processes running and
try to see what's
going on. The only thing I question is that during this
time explorer.exe
seems to take up a lot of the CPU processing time. I
don't see anything
else going on. This did not happen before I formatted
and this is the same
setup that he had on there before.

Computer Stats---800mhz, 128meg RAM, 40gig hd

Thanks for any help...


.

An 800 with 128 will be slow. Check at:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

Unexpected re-boots:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;320299&Product=winxp

and consider turning off unneeded programs at startup.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm

Bill

Yeah, but, it wasn't this slow before and it had the same operating system
installed and the same applications loading at startup. There's a huge
different in startup now than it was before the format/clean install to fix
other problems.

Paul


"Bill" wrote in message
...

-----Original Message-----
I have a friend who suddenly couldn't open Internet
Explorer at all and only
got the "Send" or "Don't Send" error report thingy every
time and he also
had some kind of security problem when he tried to run
Netscape instead so I
ended up formatting and re-installing XP for him. After
installing the
operating system I then went ahead and installed sp1,
Norton AV, Zone Alarm,
and several other applications. After thinking all was
GOOD all of a sudden
it takes at least 10 minutes for the computer hard drive
to stop cranking.
It takes 3 or 4 minutes for the start button and clock to
come up.
Sometimes it reboots itself during this time.

So anyway, I start looking at the processes running and
try to see what's
going on. The only thing I question is that during this
time explorer.exe
seems to take up a lot of the CPU processing time. I
don't see anything
else going on. This did not happen before I formatted
and this is the same
setup that he had on there before.

Computer Stats---800mhz, 128meg RAM, 40gig hd

Thanks for any help...


.

An 800 with 128 will be slow. Check at:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

Unexpected re-boots:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;320299&Product=winxp

and consider turning off unneeded programs at startup.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm

Bill