start up lag

Rednut05 · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:07

im having trouble with loading up and shutting down my computer

it gets stuck for about 1 minute on start up where i have the mouse and wallpaper only, waiting for something to load, but i have no idea what.

there is also about a 1 minute pause when shutting down, on the saving your settings screen.

if anybody has had similar problem and located the beast, or might have an idea of how to help me, it would be much appreciated.

dafloppyone · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:15

GO INTO HELP TOOLS SYSTEM CONFIG...
STARTUP...SEE WHAT IS STARTING UP...
ALSO THE WINDOWS PROCESS HIDE ALL WINDOWS PROCESSES TO SEE IF ANYTHING ELSE IS ON IT..

PERSONALLY I THINK YOU MAY HAVE A SPYWARE/VIRUS KILLER SCHEDULED TO RUN ON STARTUP/SHUTDOWN

AND WHY AM I ON CAPS...BECAUSE I BUGGERED THE CAPS KEY

Vita · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:33

Hold shift and type, it will do lowercases if you're on caps.

And yeah, check for any unwanted programs loading at startup.

Van Hellseek · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:35

silly question, but have you tried running the scandisk thingy? sometimes it's actually useful.

Rednut05 · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:42

well i tried the error check thing but the one and my computer froze for like 20 minutes on start up.

so somethings No swearing!. im just really stuck as to what.

im running kaspersky anti virus. seems some people think that could be it? but ive had that a while.

urgh

life sucks

Rednut05 · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:05

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g27/biffy57/Image1.jpg

this is whats going on during the lag at the start if it's any help

chrislusty · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:49

Can u boot up in safe mode, and then run a anti virus scan and maybe spyware scan? see if anything comes up.

pointy shadow · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:49

I have seen that with a few NEC machines recently when you open task manager no processes have an User Name assigned to them and it stopped our software working.

The only way round it was to log off then back on or else reinstall XP.