I recently had to reformat, but ever since I did My computer doesn't go straight from the bios readouts to the Win XP loading screen, but instead shows me the old white loading bars (similar to windows 2000 startup) at the bottom of the screen where it waits for about 4-5mins before taking me to the Win XP boot screen...
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have a look at my hijack this log, and tell me what you think i should do.
Gateway Pentium 3, 700 mhz - 256mb ram, 20gb hard drive.Until a few weeks ago my system booted up fine. Now it boots up to my windows desktop and then takes 20 minutes minimum to complete start up. The SVCHOST.exe hogs 99% of the CPU so nothing happens until it has completed its tasks.I have tried starting it without the start up items and this has no effect. I have cleaned it, defragged it, virus checked it, tuned it.
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- packard bell logo ( few seconds )
- windows loading bar (+-10 seconds)
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View 2 Replies View Relatedthe startup is VERY VERY slow. After the Welcome Screen, it shows your desktop and then you gain control and do whatever you want right? Well that's the part my PC lags or slows down a lot. I think the part it lags is when it's loading the icons on my taskbar, like the icons on the bottom right hand screen. I don't have a lot of icons, and they're not resource usage intensive AT ALL. My PC lags during that loading part for about 3 mins or more, and i can't do anything or else it'll make it lag more, i.e i can't open programs or games, i can't even open folders and even if i try to, it takes forever to show up.
The lagging part only shows everytime during startup, but after that it's all good, i can play hardcore games like Crysis etc on maxed setting and do multi-tasks, but i just don't get why it lags so much on startup. In fact, on my crappy Toshiba laptop, it's loads way way WAAAAY faster than my PC, but my PC is way better so i don't understand why. And they both have the same programs and settings, in fact my laptop has way more stuff running on startup and my PC has nothing but games, it's a full on gaming PC only with nothing else, so it shouldn't even lag..............
I have run Norton, Adaware and spybot. They ocassionally find tracking cookies, but nothing that looks too bad to me. One thing I did notice is that, with no programs running, I'm using 260Mb of memory.
Here is the log file:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:45:18 PM, on 1/10/2006
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
C:WINNTSystem32smss.exe
C:WINNTsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINNTsystem32services.exe
C:WINNTsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINNTsystem32svchost.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedSNDSrvc.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedSPBBCSPBBCSvc.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccSetMgr.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccEvtMgr.exe
C:WINNTsystem32spoolsv.exe
C:WINNTSystem32svchost.exe
C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirus
avapsvc.exe
C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusIWPNPFMntor.exe
C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusAdvToolsNPROTECT.EXE
C:WINNTsystem32
egsvc.exe
C:WINNTsystem32MSTask.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedCCPD-LCsymlcsvc.exe
C:WINNTSystem32WBEMWinMgmt.exe
C:WINNTsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINNTExplorer.EXE
C:Program FilesCanonVDCAuVdc.exe
C:WINNTSystem32hkcmd.exe
C:Program FilesAnalog DevicesCoresmax4pnp.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccApp.exe
C:WINNTsystem32wuauclt.exe
C:Program FilesInternet ExplorerIEXPLORE.EXE
C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusOPScan.exe
C:Documents and SettingsDavid IhlerDesktopHijackThis.exe
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0AcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:Program FilesSpybot - Search & DestroySDHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: AcroIEToolbarHelper Class - {AE7CD045-E861-484f-8273-0445EE161910} - C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0AcrobatAcroIEFavClient.dll
O2 - BHO: NAV Helper - {BDF3E430-B101-42AD-A544-FADC6B084872} - C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusNavShExt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:WINNTSystem32msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: Adobe PDF - {47833539-D0C5-4125-9FA8-0819E2EAAC93} - C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0AcrobatAcroIEFavClient.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusNavShExt.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Synchronization Manager] mobsync.exe /logon
O4 - HKLM..Run: [IgfxTray] C:WINNTSystem32igfxtray.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:WINNTSystem32hkcmd.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SoundMAXPnP] C:Program FilesAnalog DevicesCoresmax4pnp.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [HPDJ Taskbar Utility] C:WINNTSystem32spooldriversw32x863hpztsb04.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [ccApp] "C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccApp.exe"
O4 - HKLM..Run: [SSC_UserPrompt] C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedSecurity CenterUsrPrmpt.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Advanced Tools Check] C:PROGRA~1NORTON~1AdvToolsADVCHK.EXE
O4 - HKLM..Run: [Symantec NetDriver Monitor] C:PROGRA~1SYMNET~1SNDMon.exe /Consumer
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:WINNTsystem32msjava.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:WINNTsystem32msjava.dll
O9 - Extra button: AIM - {AC9E2541-2814-11d5-BC6D-00B0D0A1DE45} - C:PROGRA~1AIMaim.exe
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsof...?1121795517515
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsof...?1121795448078
O20 - Winlogon Notify: igfxcui - C:WINNTSYSTEM32igfxsrvc.dll
O23 - Service: Canon NetSpot Suite Service - CANON INC. - C:Program FilesCanonVDCAuVdc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Event Manager (ccEvtMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccEvtMgr.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Password Validation (ccPwdSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccPwdSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Settings Manager (ccSetMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccSetMgr.exe
O23 - Service: Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service (dmadmin) - VERITAS Software Corp. - C:WINNTSystem32dmadmin.exe
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect Service (navapsvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirus
avapsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Firewall Monitor Service (NPFMntor) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusIWPNPFMntor.exe
O23 - Service: Norton Unerase Protection (NProtectService) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusAdvToolsNPROTECT.EXE
O23 - Service: SAVScan - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesNorton AntiVirusSAVScan.exe
O23 - Service: ScriptBlocking Service (SBService) - Symantec Corporation - C:PROGRA~1COMMON~1SYMANT~1SCRIPT~1SBServ.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedSNDSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec SPBBCSvc (SPBBCSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedSPBBCSPBBCSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Core LC - Symantec Corporation - C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedCCPD-LCsymlcsvc.exe
Extremely slow when installed XP. It also lists many boxes across the top in the blue part instead of listing the site, place and Windows Internet Explorer. It also lists boxes in the tabs at the bottom and before anything pops up after you click on a site in Explorer it says About Blank in the tabs. Is this because the RAM in his computer doesn't support this version of Windows?
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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 12:14:34 AM, on 4/6/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16414)
I'm having a big problem with my computer.I've run out of ideal and things to do to speed up this computer. The more I do to speed it up the slower it gets. I can't seem to download anything from the internet that my help me with this problem. I can seee the internet but it take so long to go from a page to another that it time out alot. I went threw all the step to speed up this computer twice with no luck. There very little on the hard drive and I still can't get this puppy going. Can any boby help?
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