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| Thread ID: 58607 | 2005-06-06 03:23:00 | Very slow startup/login of windows XP | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 361583 | 2005-06-06 03:23:00 | I have here a windows xp home (sp2) computer that has recently been taking a rather long time to login. When the computer gets to the welcome screen, the harddrive is going flat out. If I leave it sitting there until the harddrive stops, then logging in is normal speed. however If I try to login straight away, then It takes ages. I Have updated norton, spybot, adaware etc run all and detected nothing. I tried disabling all startup programs but that made no difference, nor does starting with network cable removed. Also tried clearing out temp IE files/cookies/history, index.dat, temporary files, but still takes a long time to login. Any Ideas?? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 361584 | 2005-06-06 03:43:00 | Well . . . I just got a friend's puter cleared of what seems to be the same problem . . so . . . . . maybe, just maybe I can help . :stare: You might have a core flood program running . My buddy got one called TURK182, and it did the same thing . We fought it for a few days, and the first symptom was that Spybot S&D got a little wacky . Seems as though most viruses and junk try to take out Spybot 1st, then they get to replicate and swamp the processor with writing 1's and 0's all over the hard drive . This one actually initiated 182 screens on the desktop . Click as we might, we could not get to the last one . It did not show in Taskmanager, start-up processes, or even in HJT . (sad to say) :groan: We finally burned it all down and did a f-disc with the old Win 98SE boot disk, and then upgraded to XP-Pro . We had the foresight to get and run Belarc Adviser 1st!!! That way we had a copy of the key for XP . (I suggest everybody get a copy of Belarc Adviser and run and print it out for the future when you will need it . . . and you WILL!) :nerd: There also seems to be an inherent weakness in XP's prefetch files and the way they are/are not protected . Now, I know they are supposed to be deleted and reset all the time when the puter is idle (that's the housekeeping activity you might see in the hard drive light from time to time) . But, and I say again BUT! there is a problem with replicator programs that like to reside there . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 361585 | 2005-06-06 05:11:00 | Thanks for the nice-coloured reply, surferjoe... You must be an artist, I suppose? | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 361586 | 2005-06-06 05:21:00 | from your post: Thanks for the nice-coloured reply, surferjoe . . . You must be an artist, I suppose? Well, James, (I can call you James?), yes and no . I like the idea of a colorful text, and I am just playing with the various settings here and there . Thanks for the notice, and I vow to use colors and such ever more! I just wonder why I cannot post an avatar now! :dogeye: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 361587 | 2005-06-06 06:11:00 | You might have a core flood program running . My buddy got one called TURK182, and it did the same thing . Really? Can you direct me to some info on this stuff, couldn't find anything on a quick google . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 361588 | 2005-06-06 06:34:00 | I just wonder why I cannot post an avatar now! :dogeye: They are not an option on this forum for anyone except the Moderators. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 361589 | 2005-06-06 16:58:00 | Answering your question as to where I got the info: I got the actual info from my ISP (Verizon . net) thru their tech-o geeks . :nerd: They told me what the name was, as it is just emergent and still in the wild . Actually, any time you "feel" the puter is acting strange, it is! Like a mother and baby relationship, we can actually tell when something is amiss in our puters . The keys might feel heavy (really!), or the boot might take longer, the colors might not be right . Something is wrong . :@@: There seems to be a flurry of virus activity now that certain previous communist countries are opening up to western (and NZ) culture . They are all rushing to get on the tech bandwagon and proving their worth by being good hackers; 's funny that they feel that way . Ah well, freedom came at a serious cost to them so I guess they are kicking up their heels a little now (at the free-world's expense!) . Now, I know my buddy did not enter any mIRC sites or P2P or get a WAREZ file dnld . He's just not that way . So, there has to be another common way to get these things . I had one jump in when I got a letter only delivered in my inbox! I never had the chance to open or scan it . . . . . it came in just by generating the notice that it had arrived! Figger that one out! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 361590 | 2005-06-10 18:11:00 | May be a defrag would help. High levels of fragmentation are known to cause such problems and if not looked into, lead to very sluggish system performance. | otter (8288) | ||
| 361591 | 2005-06-10 18:58:00 | May be a defrag would help. High levels of fragmentation are known to cause such problems and if not looked into, lead to very sluggish system performance. In addition to otter's reply, I suggest defragment your HDD under safe mode. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 361592 | 2005-06-10 23:10:00 | I tried disabling all startup programs but that made no difference, nor does starting with network cable removed. When you say you disabled startup programmes, do you mean you went to Start>All Programs>Startup and stopped them there; or did you go to msconfig and disabled them there (or both)? |
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