System recently began taking a long time to load, and to execute commands.. Also some unusual responses. Slow to load browsers. Whether I.E., Chrome or Firefox. When logged onto the internet, responses, page changes and other commands are very fast, and links connect with very little delay. The problem is with trying to start up and log on, and do other work on the system. Sloooow. Also I have Skype 4.0 installed, and wanted to Uninstall it in order to add the latest Skype. However when I try to uninstall via Add/Remove in Control Panel I get an Error message " Network Error occurred while trying to read file C:\WindowsinstallerSkype.msi" I get this even if I try to install the new Skype over the old (4.0). What seems to be the problem?
When I open programs they are slow to respond. I click on the icon but it seems to take for ever to open up but I don't know why.They use to open up fairly quickly before and nothing has changed.
I know I am behind the times, but I just now upgraded from SP1 to SP2 due to some of the anti-virus and firewall software upgrades only being compatible with SP2. SP1 ran great. After upgrading, tweaking the services, and a few other things my computer is still lagging. It takes 4 times longer to boot up w/SP2 and even after that is slow to respond for at least 5 minutes. I have always tweaked my pcs to boot faster and not have unnecessary things running. I've done everything I did in the past and still SP2 is slow.This basically sucks. It would be so great if MS didn't have a monopoly on OS's.I have a couple of older pcs that I run a couple versions of Linux on and they run fast and flawless
MS office shortcut bar has Word, Excel as well as others, but when I click on one, it takes up to 30 seconds to open. If I open excel from the desktop, it opens immediately. Also, if I click on start/programs and then right click on one, it takes 20-30 seconds to get the properties screen to pop open.
Over the last few months, the Windows Explorer on my laptop has become excruciatingly slow.Simply trying to move to an adjacent directory can take minutes. Related / unrelated - I have seen CPU/memory max out as well - though not always. I have a 1.5 GB of RAM, and have seen this when not heck of a lot is going on. I am unsure if it is a virus issue or is it something that has to do with windows explorer issues, which I have seen a few threads on on the net.
I have a pc running XP Pro and suddenly it became extremely slow.It takes a couple of minutes to boot up.Everything responds slow on the pc.I ran adaware , spybot and cwshredder.these programmes did find a couple of things but still the pc is very slow.
I got this message in the dreadful blue page this morning when starting my laptop (Acer), running WinXP Home. It does not respond when trying to start (F8) in safe mode etc. What should I do? I am not really tech-savy..I also cannot explain why this thing happened. Is this a virus/malware? it happened after i connected an external hard disk of a friend to my laptop last night. My girlfreind's laptop had exaclty the same thing when restarting last night...both laptops with the same error message above.
I'd appreciate some help with this and have seen similar threads, but am just not competent to sort this out on my own.Windows Explorer is no longer reading my camera card. It either fails to respond or just loads the thumbnail icon and then seems to stop, although a couple of times I left it for around 30minutes and most of the 70 thumbnails had opened, so I'm not completely sure if it's stopped or if it's just so slow the computer thinks it's not working.It will open them once they are in a folder on the PC and I can transfer them using the Nikon software otherwise I'd have a useless camera!I'm also getting quite a few "Internet Explorer is not responding messages", and after downloading version 8 went back to version 7 but it's still happening.
I have two machines that are slow to display the contents of drive C in Windows Explorer. It will take sometimes as much as 30 seconds.Once it has displayed the contents of drive C, I can close Windows Explorer and if I go back to it again soon, everything is as fast as I would expect it to be.
when I choose "print" it takes a long time for the printer info window to open. then it takes even longer to choose and activate any further command. whether I want to choose another printer I have installed or even if I simply click "ok" for it to print the <ocument. every step is very slow, the pc almost looks, feels frozen. eventually printing starts and the printer prints just fine.
When I attempt to open a file or to get a directory listing in Windows explorer I have a delay of about 12 seconds. Before I get a listing (within a program) I see where it says at the top "Open - not responding". After eventually getting the listing I will be able to obtain another listing quite quickly while in that program. If I exit the program and go to another as from Word to Excel I again experience the slow listing and the "Open - not responding" before the listing shows. Long ago I had a similar problem where the listing took an even 30 seconds to appear and it was determined to be a virus. Nothing shows in any of my virus scans.
I am operating XP media edition, Dell dimension E510, I have installed and uninstalled and installed Live messenger again and it loads very slowly and then won't respond to the mouse, acually locks up. Is there some patch or driver I am missing?
Lost a program I used to delete commands in my start run . I know I can do it in the registry but this was a nifty little program that let you pick the ones you wanted to delete . Anyone know the name and place to dpwnload such a program ?
Is there some place that I can search to see if windows files/commands are legitimate? I have Zone Alarm and it has programs on it trying to access the Internet that I do not recognize. Another one was: Microsoft Out of Bounds. I have Windows XP Home Edition with all updates.I have ZoneAlarm free and McAffee AntiVirus.Nothing has been detected.
computer (WinXP SP2 - 1GB RAM) just started in the last day or two to load really slow -- it takes a good half hour or more to get to the point where you can click on an icon and it takes a few minutes to open. Don't even ask about the internet. it did not download anything in the last few days and has no idea why this is happening.
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.
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
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
I've gone through a lot of the threads in here and tried a lot of fixes, and I'm still having problems. I have a Gateway, Windows XP laptop that's about 1 year old. A little over a week ago, it started "running slow". It's slow to start up (takes about 5-10 min), the mouse "sticks" sometimes although that is an intermittent problem, when I have multiple applications minimized (outlook express, firefox, My Documents, AIM), it's slow to toggle between them, and it's slow to open folders in My Documents.
on the wifes pc xp only a cheap one fron local retail out let but it does her.but drives me mad as my pc is so fast in starting up and hers takes about 2 years if you know what i mean,my pc and my laptop are fast at starting but hers is slow......as i said your able to make a cup of tea before its up and running...i have dissabled some start up programs that i thought may of afected it but to no aval still the same?
I don't have a clue to where to respond to a email i got from a asmin cookiegal? I got a email saying i better watch out or i'll be banned from the forum.I didn't mean to insult anyone but a post i recieved was not very kind either so maybe i over reacted.As for me asking about why i would be banned from ANOTHER forum not this one cookiegal said forums don't ban people for no reason well, they did for me and the one that got be banned was a friend of one of the mods! on drphil.com
Hi .friends laptop from switching on till it gets on homepage is taking over 3-8 minutes ,once its on the homepage and internet no problems. ive done the usuall things cleared temp files cookies n browsing history etc also did msconfig and cleared the clutter from start-up he is running xp and uses internet explorer 7 .have noticed that at top of screen it says internet explorer provided by sky broadband ,
My desktop has been slowing down over time. Start up you could almost make a cup of tea between on button and being usable. Performance picks up, but not what it used to be.Could someone advise me if a problem lies in this area and what to add/remove. Also there are 3 other user accounts, do I have to run seperate logs for these, or will changes I make carry over (ps. I am administrator).
When I start my computer everything goes fine and fast showing me the what I have got in my computer etc etc. My problem starts when I get the windows xp on my screen and the little moving bar underneath to show me windows is starting up it is taking anything upto 10 minutes before the screen changes to my desktop and allows me to use my computer. I have recently changed my power pack and reforrmated my system.Before everything was fine has anyone any ideas what could be causing this please.
I am having a problem with IE7 startup. It's very slow, takes over a minute to start. After starting it seems to work Ok.No antivirus program will install. AVG is installed but can't find anything. Running safe mode is no help. I may have a virus but can't scan for one.
when i run a virus scan using blueyonders pcguard this failed about 3/4 of the way through.The next day when starting up my computer it took about 20 minutes to boot.As i didnt have much to lose i completely formatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows xp. I have not installed pcguard again after a few problems with this so i have chosen avg anti virus and zone alarm.Even after a clean install my problem is still there. I have opended the computer and cleaned any dust and checked that the fans are working and still have long start up problems.I have also run chkdisk and this showed nothing but took about 2 hours.One thing i have noticed is that when windows does start the theme tune is very distorted and crackly.I have now updated to windows service pack 2 still same problems. Im not sure what else i can add as this is my first post at this sort of thing.
I dont know what this means Saturday, August 20, 2005 atapi The device, DeviceIdeIdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period what does this mean and how do i fix it? i found the error on ADVANCED SYSTEM INFORMATION - ERROR LOG
that use AIM and she has been begging me to install it for her so she can talk to them. After installing AIM the next day I noticed the following. At startup a program is launched called "Desktop Search" which puts a small search window just above my system tray. This program does not work and will not respond when trying to close the program from the Task Manager. The program is not listed in "ADD/REMOVE Software" in the control panel. I have run both ADAWARE-SE and SPYBOT S&D, and have not had any results. The only reference to this program that I can find is in the registry under;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun There are 2 entries; Desktop Search, and FFIS. Both are type REG_SZ and the Values are C:WINDOWSisrvsDesktopSearch.exe
