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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 34224588)

Just now I turned it on everything was OK, I upgraded the firewall. after it reboot guess what.

processor running at 100%

I'd just be looking at resetting the TCP/IP and Winsock, and changing firewall.

Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 34224588)

Right I'm ready to throw this dam PC out of the window.

last night I did yet another restore point, removed the cab fils from the i386 folder on to a usb stick, scanned the fold and removed 17 items.

Just now I turned it on everything was OK, I upgraded the firewall. after it reboot guess what.

processor running at 100%

I'm at my wits end KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

I could kick myself for not thinking of this sooner, as it's happened to me a bunch of times. Sometimes CPU useage can show as full, even though it isn't, assuming you're seeing it reported via Task Manager. If it's the same thing, it really used to drive me nuts, but it's a very easy fix.

In Task Manager, go to View -> Update Speed, & make sure it's set to Normal. If it already is, try setting it to something else, then set it back to Normal. When you look at that menu option you'll see there's a paused option. Don't ask me why, as I haven't a clue, but sometimes it gets set to paused.

If that doesn't work, do you have Spybot Search & Destroy installed on that machine? If so, open it, & under Tools - View Report, make sure the 1st tickbox is OFF, & the rest are ON, then click View Report. When it's generated the report, Export it [save it somewhere easy to find], then zip it & attach it to your next post & I'll have a look.

Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

When the processor is running at 100% it is slower that a dead snail.

My mate who works in IT came round and looked in the registry, admin tools couldn't find anything despite trying for 4 hours.

So I'll have to run a restore point to help then copy all the need files/save and reformat the HDD :(

Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

Tried it with the firewall off, btw?

Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 34225034)

When the processor is running at 100% it is slower that a dead snail.

Ah, right. :(

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 34225034)

My mate who works in IT came round and looked in the registry, admin tools couldn't find anything despite trying for 4 hours.

Even experts can miss stuff sometimes, the offer's still there if you want.

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 34225034)

So I'll have to run a restore point to help then copy all the need files/save and reformat the HDD :(

Probably the best idea in the long run, though if you want, my offer to look over a Spybot report of that system still stands.

Another thing just occurred to me about slow startups - does it have any network adapters/ports that are enabled but either not connected to anything or connected to something that's not powered up? Pre-SP2 that used to cause a fairly big delay, though it's improved somewhat with SP2.

Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

Update.
I put an old 30GB HDD in the PC and reformatted it and installed XP.
Today I bought an External HDD enclosure, connected this via USB2 and I am running a virus check, it has found a trojan in pagefile.sys, which I have deleted.
Its still running, but could this have solved it?