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| 237573 | 2004-05-18 21:15:00 | Hi, I've started to notice lately that WinXP Pro is taking a while to load up . It gets into WinXP (after logging in), but takes a while to load up the programs etc . I've only got ZoneAlarm, SpyBot SD Resident, and Nortons in the system tray beside the clock (can't remember what that's called) . Is this slowing the PC down? I've had them (ZoneAlarm and SpyBot) installed for a few weeks already, and the problem's only started recently . Out of curiosity, what do the "Processes" mean? I remember seeing previous threads about those . I wonder if this is adding to the loading problem? Thanks, caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 237574 | 2004-05-18 21:57:00 | if anything norton is often the culprit here if you dont got much ram specially it's a hog........however there could be many other causes.....try start/run/ type in msconfig and hit enter you'll get a box and you can goto the startup tab and see and enable-disable applications from running when the sytsem starts...........also you can look at the services tab and this will give you a list of many other things also that run in the background at the system startup....... how much ram you got and what speed processor ? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 237575 | 2004-05-18 22:33:00 | 512mb ram, and processor is 1.73Ghz I've had nortons for many years, and it's only recently that everythings starting to slow up...so it can't really be that can it? How do i know which programs to enable/disable in that box? The processes list is quite long, which ones can I stop? |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 237576 | 2004-05-18 23:21:00 | Nortons is often a problem. I've noticed on our new XP3000+ PC that the startup time for XP Pro is very slow. E.g. all the desktop icons, system tray load, but then you can't do anything else for a whole minute as NIS holds up everything kind-of like a deadlock situation and loads ever so slowly. You could try disabling automatic startup and making it start-up manually, often by way of placing the shortcuts in the start->startup menu. Instructions for that at are the Symantec site. Even a reinstall and Defragment of the drive might work. Parts of the Norton files are probably all over the show. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 237577 | 2004-05-18 23:25:00 | heres a site or two you can check cybercoyote.org www.blackviper.com www.sysinfo.org |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 237578 | 2004-05-19 05:46:00 | OK, Have set nortons to manual start up . Can anyone explain to me what the processes are (when you click Ctrl, Alt and Del together) . What should they normally be? I can see a few things that are running at 10,000-20,000 K for mem usage . Is this normal? |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 237579 | 2004-05-19 23:01:00 | have a look at these Here (www.liutilities.com) Here (www.dslreports.com) Here (www.answersthatwork.com) |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 237580 | 2004-05-27 02:21:00 | Hey, If all else fails, BootVis is a really useful program to speed up XP boots, identifying and disabling all the features that you are not using. Do you really need those others to load on startup? |
Robsa (5648) | ||
| 237581 | 2004-05-27 03:11:00 | Disabiling nortons has donre thejob, i just enable it, when xp has finished loading... Will wait and see how it goes Thanks, people |
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