Slow Computer Start-Up - Boot To Desktop
Apr 22, 2006
for awhile now I have been experiencing slow computer start up. My computer will boot to the desktop, then stay there for a few mins. I try clicking icons, not clicking icons, but I still have to wait. *Also* The comp. doesn't sound as if it is loading...sometimes the hourglass cursor will appear, but the CPU never gets loud during this waiting time. I would like to not have to wait every time I get on my computer. Can anyone help? Please! I will be standing by for an answer.I have scanned for viruses, adware, and spyware.after making sure those were gone I still had this slow start up problem.
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Oct 12, 2008
My problems are a very long boot up (go away and make a coffee length) and also slow running, especially in opening progs for the first time ie, very slow to open Word initially, then much faster opening subsequent Word files. Even so, the laptop has slowed considerably and is often hesitant.
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Dec 6, 2007
My Toshiba Tecra laptop 8100 with XP is Slow/Slow/Slow!
When turning on, it takes 5 to 10 minutes to settle down. Once it stops grinding and I try to start any application -- such as Internet Exployer, it takes another 5 to 10 minutes. I have Nortons 360 and another anti-virus application that gives me the indication that all is O.K. How can I speed this machine up
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Mar 3, 2005
Out of the blue, my computer started getting slow. Sometimes its ok, and then it will be on the verge of freezing.. then get itself back together. I realized, when I start up, it takes FOREVER. It also shows this screen I have never seen before. Its completely black, and has a line of grey rectangles from side to side. and slowly loads across. When it is finally finished 10-15 minutes it will slowly start up in regular fashion
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Jan 23, 2009
Why is it taking my computer 3 minutes to boot to the desktop? As you can see from my signature below, I don't have exactly a slow poke machine. All drives are defragged weekly, the BIOS is set to boot off of the hard disk, and I only have the one OS installed.This thing use to boot to the desktop in 20 seconds.
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Jan 1, 2008
I am currently using Windows XP home edition. On bootup, no icons or start menu is displayed. I have tried to right click and click 'show desktop', but all I am able to do is move the mouse. There is no other mouse function present. I am able to access the internet, email and run applications via the Ctrl, Alt, Del command and then selecting 'run'. All that is displayed is my background screen saver and the mouse pointer. Please advise me on how normal functionality can be restored. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Oct 25, 2007
my Computer is slow to start up.[5 minutes] I am running XP professional with sp2 and all of the sudden when I first start it up it has the welcome screen.after going pass that the computer running perfectly
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Jul 3, 2007
I have run all the usual spyware scans and my comp is still a little slow on start up.
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Oct 11, 2005
as the title says my computer takes forever to start. It is a new installation of Windows XP Home as supplied by my Laptop Manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens. I have all the recent updates but this hasn't helped. From day one of the installation it has taken around 2 minutes to start. I have checked for Spyware with Adaware and Spybot and Destroy. I have ran Trend Housecall Anti-Virus online scanner and Panda Online Anti-Virus and nothing. My resident Anti-Virus software is Nod32 and it has detected nothing.I have followed so many guides to try and speed things up but it hasnt done anything. The only things starting up are the virus scanner, freepops(for my Hotmail account) and my synaptics keypad. I have tried disabling them all and its just as slow. I have turned off services that certain websites assure me I do not need and nothing. I have one Unsigned Driver for my WLAN Card but the Supplier doesnt have a signed driver available. It's a Sitecom WL-517 Wireless Broadband Kit PCMCIA adapter. I have uninstalled the device to see if this might be the problem but it still doesnt effect startup time.
I downloaded Bootvis to look at where the time is going and what it shows. It seems to spend an age loading drivers and looking at the Prefetch files this accounts for about 40 seconds. Then it spends another 45 seconds at Windows Logon and Services. From here I have a gap of about 45 seconds where it does nothing it just pauses for another 45 seconds. I have ran Bootvis so that it optimised the system but this did nothing. Having read further I discovered that Windows XP more or less does a BootVis optimisation at every startup and so this would have done nothing anyway. Because of this I ran the Windows XP Home Cd and repaired the Installation so it should be relatively fresh.I must say I am at a loss as to where the problem is.
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Mar 26, 2007
When I booted up my computer this morning, Windows loaded, I signed in, and then it took nearly an hour and a half to get the program icons to come up on the desktop. When I try to open one, it can take upwards of 20 minutes to do so, then response within the program is no better. It seems like all the resources are under use, but no one can see what's bogging it down.
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Nov 14, 2008
my computer is suddenly running extreemly slow at start up and every pplication/operation takes far more time than is resonable. i have not recently downloaded anything new and i have about half free memory. The only error message i get is the 'windows virtual memory too low'
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Feb 26, 2005
For some reason my pc is dragging at eevry startup and i am unable to find the reasons for this
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Oct 14, 2005
My computer is really dragging after installing my new earthlink dsl can someone take a look at my hijack log i doubt all this is needed
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Aug 24, 2007
I've just taken my brand new desktop system out of the box and there's no Start menu or icons appearing on the desktop. The monitor automatically initiated a startup wizard to select the correct resolution but once that was complete, the desktop was blank (except for the Windows default rolling green hills wallpaper). Not even the mouse pointer is visible. I restarted but after startup it went to the blank picture again. I tried pressing the Windows key on the keyboard,and also tried Ctrl+Alt+delete to get the Task manager but both times nothing happened. All components are plugged in correctly, and I haven't installed any software other than what came installed from the manufacturer (please see specs in my profile); I literally plugged it all in and switched it on.
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Apr 27, 2005
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 I have Windows XP my computer is less than a year old and the other day it just started and the start menu and desktop icons wont come up any longer.I dont wanna reformat it because i have a ton of music and other files on here that i'd like to keep like pictures and whatnot is there anyway to get my computer to come back?
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Jul 13, 2005
I was just wondering if someone can look @ my Hijack, and tell me want is wong with it.
Also When I go into my config, And then Startup, there are alot of progroram which are open. I don't know which to close or leave open.
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Jun 29, 2010
My computer is getting really slow. now it is taking more time to load the icons at desktop awell as to load the internet explorer. it use to be fast before but it is taking more time to execute the command. i am using xp. pentium 4, 1 gb ram, symentic antivirus. i used utility softeware tune up. does that made it slow.
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Feb 28, 2007
My computer is getting really slow. now it is taking more time to load the icons at desktop awell as to load the internet explorer. it use to be fast before but it is taking more time to execute the command. i am using xp. pentium 4, 1 gb ram, symentic antivirus. i used utility softeware tune up.
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Sep 15, 2010
I imported a picture from my docs and somehow it imported the whole folder which has slowed my computer on start up and shut down. how can i remove these pictures from this background box permanently
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Aug 9, 2007
Every time I startup or restart my computer, my load takes around 20mins ! I have a Compaq Presario V2000. When I power or restart, the screen goes black, everything flashes, then the Compaq screen shows for about a second (guessing is the BIOS because it lets me hit F8 or whatever) but then after that it goes to a black screen with a status bar at the bottom. Slowly the status bar fills up. At around 20 minutes, which the bar is half way, then the computer flashes again and the XP logo shows and loads normally afterwards.
Im having no more problems with XP or anything else except that startup screen. People tell me its the BIOS, others tell me its not recognizing the Hard drive fast enough among other things. My BIOS boot order is basically CD first then HD. I have tried so many things with no success. And its getting to the point that I cant do anything when it comes to updating stuff without having to restart, which takes those 20mins.
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Jul 4, 2008
This computer is an HP/2.8ghz/512ram/service pack 3 system. It use to run nice, now it boot's slow, slow, slow! It takes 10 minutes to get all the icons loaded, then it works ok. In addition to the slow boot, it also hangs at a black screen, I get around it by pressing F1, then it loads ok. Safe mode loads normally about 2 min.
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Jun 19, 2008
I am a pc technican, I have noticed that over the years whenever i have a particular brand of pcs sometimes some pcs boot up much faster than others, sometimes even when the spec is better on some systems, i have a dell pc here i have been asked to replace a psu on, i am just wondering why exactly it boots up really fast, in comparison to some new builds i build sometimes, with the latest components faster ram etc, maybe it`s the hard drives some of these are using?
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Nov 3, 2008
I wanted to know how I could find out what the text was on my computer when it starts up for the first time. I start it, then the screen is blank, then some white text appears on a black background, but only for a few miliseconds. then the text disappears and the main 'windows' start up logo comes up, before the desktop finally appears and the computer is ready to be used. I was wondering how I could find out what the white text said, before the windows pre-logMy computer is windows XP professional, version 2002, service pack 2
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Jan 3, 2005
Boot up was extemely slow and would not allow internet (dsl) connection. I have fixed that by using the wireless card instead as I believe a driver is gone. I now no why she didn't want it anymore. When I ran spybot it came up with 37 items for removal. I have also run AD-Aware which continues to find some trojan viruses. I also have Avast running. I have reached the the extent of my tech abilityand although it seems to run better I still believe it is infected.
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Jul 13, 2005
When i start my computer all i see is the desktop background. No icons, no task bar. After restarting the computer between 3 and 6 times the icons and taskbar will eventually appear.I've been reading up on the problem for around a month now and tried many different things to solve it. Really dont want to format computer. I dont no too much so please be step by step in any anwsers left.
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Sep 27, 2009
System Restore problem I've been having.I did a system restore on my laptop and then got error messages when attempting to restore back to the present time) but as of just now I have a new, much more pressing problem. I restarted my laptop in safe mode an hour or so ago to attempt to do a system restore while in safe mode, just to see if that might work since I always get an error when trying to do a system restore normally.
The system restore loaded up and the blue progress bar got about 1/6th of the way across and then stopped. I let it load and after 45 minutes of absolutely no progress in starting up with the system restore, I manually shut down the computer. I turned it on again after a minute and it began to boot up, showed the HP logo, went black, then the Windows XP loading screen, went black, then the HP logo again, black again, Windows XP loading screen again, etc and just looped again and again. I let it continue this for about 15 minutes but it just kept looping. I pressed the F8 key while it was doing this and selected it to start in Safe Mode, only to have the same looping sequence continue again and again. I had to manually shut down the laptop again, and after attempting to turn it on and have it boot up a few more times I've run into nothing but more of the same endless looping process.
What can I do about this? What caused it and is there any way to fix it? I'd really like a way to access or save my data, which I can't do now since the computer is doing nothing but looping the boot sequence. i have Prof SP2
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Nov 13, 2007
when i start my computer a message comes up saying the boot.ini is missing but windows boots anyway. but then a bluescreen comes up.
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Jul 9, 2008
I am posting a computer problem of "The slowest computer of all"? It takes 5 to 6 minutes to boot and then takes on some dialog boxes when clicking 7 seconds to activate, (Show on Screen) and on others, takes 14 to 21 seconds to activate? Sometime you even see the searching flashlite on the screen when you click. The same thing happens with the right click context menu. This computer is a HP a430n running a AMD Athlon(B) XP 3200+ running at 2.20 GHz. It has 1Gig of ram, a GeForce4 MX440 (Raven) AGP 8x graphic card,Integrated AC97 audio and a Maxtor 250Gig hard drive.
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Dec 15, 2005
computer running extremely slow and unable to open files or application taking longer time for boot?
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Oct 19, 2008
my computer was infected with -powered by Zeno' spyware and I was advised to start in safe mode to remove some files. I ticked safemode under boot.ini in msconfig and my computer restarted, but only got as far as the Windows XP loadup page before rebooting itself. I have tried 'last known good configuration' etc, but to no avail... the computer simpl will not get past this point. I decided to reinstall (repair) Windows XP, but unfortunately, I cannot do this because it reaches a screen where it says setup cannot complete under safe mode. I can't turn this safemode off though, because I can't get the computer on to reaccess boot.ini.
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Aug 1, 2009
I have a main WIN XP Home Edition based computer with an Intel 3118 chip, 2GB RAM,190GB Hard drive with 126GB free, additional drive via USB with 470 GB and 399GB free and networked with a laptop and Dell computer all able to read each other. On the main computer I have 60+ icons on the desktop and have Zone Alarm Security Suite and Forcefield running updated.I have cleaned all computers with Crap Cleaner and Esaycleaner have defragged and deleted all unwanted files but still it takes some 9-10 minutes to boot from hot or cold and the close down of programs also takes between 1-2 minutes.
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