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Thread ID: 76796	2007-02-16 04:06:00	Slow Boot Up	thiggy (11892)	Press F1

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525100	2007-02-16 04:06:00	My Windows XP has over the last couple of months gotten as slow as molasses in all activities. It takes forever to boot up and is slow to go from one program to another. I have Zone Alarm Security Suite installed, am on cable internet. It seems that the hard drive reads forever. Task manager shows up to 100% cpu usage frequently. I just noticed this evening that svchost.exe seemed to be what was running so much. When I looked that program up, the references seemed to indicate that I had [i]registry[i] problems and was referred to several registry fix/clean-up programs which I could purchase. I ran the free download of a couple which indicated that I had hundreds of problems with my registry. However, I am very reluctant to purchase one of these sight unseen knowing nothing about them (or the problem, either). Do any of you have any suggestions to help clear up my problem? By the way, I have run defrag, which said that I did not need to defrag my hard drive. Thanks, Thiggy	thiggy (11892)
525101	2007-02-16 04:15:00	Have a look here (faqf1.net.nz).	FoxyMX (5)
525102	2007-02-16 04:34:00	What programs did u get and use?? As some of these programs (depending on what they are) give you false info, (so you get sucked into buying them), and can install more crap on your system. Get the file in my sig below (hijackthis) as well. We'll see whats in the log.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
525103	2007-02-16 04:41:00	My Windows XP has over the last couple of months gotten as slow as molasses in all activities . From experience: Run antispywares . See FAQ for more details . Run CCleaner - its safe . Take the unnecessary items out of your startup: Type msconfig from Start - Run, click the startup tab, untick the clutter . Add more RAM . Turn off System Restore, clear the lot (reboot) and turn it back on if you really have to use it . After all that it if hasn't improved much, a clean install of WIndows does the trick . Rather a major though, having to backup your stuff, install Windows, install drivers, install all your apps etc again . I only resort to that with customers if Windows shows signs of problems . As for my own PC, as its backed up with Ghost, I just restore my Ghost Image . Instead of all of the above .	pctek (84)
525104	2007-02-16 04:45:00	How much disk space have you got left on your hard drive?	stu161204 (123)
525105	2007-02-16 23:15:00	I didn't purchase any of the registry repair programs. I ran a free scan with a couple of them. My Zone Alert runs active spyware and does frequent updates. My hard drive sizes are as follows: D - 696 GB with 53 GB free space C - 56 GB with 984 MB free space. How do I determine what is necessary to have in startup? Thanks for your assistance.	thiggy (11892)
525106	2007-02-16 23:31:00	You dont have to purchase registry fix programs for them to work. Some trial (or crap programs install crap, and do absolutely nothing to fix a system). They make it worse. Get hijackthis in my sig below (unzip it and put it in its own folder, run it then click on scan and save a log), and post the log it creates back here.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
525107	2007-02-16 23:32:00	C - 56 GB with 984 MB free space. These is half of your problem, Win XP likes having at lest 1 - 2+ GB of free space.	stu161204 (123)
525108	2007-02-16 23:57:00	My Zone Alert runs active spyware and does frequent updates . Don't really on that . Zone Alarm is a firewall . Get more antispyware programs, the more the better . Download and run Spybot and AdAware (both free) on a regular basis and update them regularly too .	pctek (84)
525109	2007-02-17 05:02:00	Add more RAM then defragment the drive. Windows is probably attempting to use a highly fragmented page file to swap information in and out of memory, causing the speed issues (especially when switching between programs).	TGoddard (7263)
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