Re: XP Pro slow boot and operation.

From: Patrick Casher (casher_at_qwickconnect.net)
Date: 02/07/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:05:08 -0600

Tried to low level format but couldn't find lowlevel format on Maxtor's
Maxblast 3, so did their repartition and quick format and started reload of
XP pro but when it became apparent it was running slow I replaced the hd and
reloaded seems to have don the trick. Will go back and check the partitions
with fdisk next week, didn't have time today. Gets to a usable start menu
in less than a minute.

Patrick

"Sarah" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:bbf001c3ec8d$c4620d50$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Patrick Casher writes:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >My son has a desktop PIII on a wireless router they use
> for the internet and
> >for the children to play games with. I'm sure it's been
> abused. It takes
> >about 5 min to be able to access the start menu. The
> boot screen comes on
> >and after a minute the keyboard lights flash and it
> proceeds to slowly boot
> >up. There doesn't appear to be too many fonts in
> explorer or word. I tried
> >doing a restore going back as far as I could and it
> didn't help. Ran
> >ad-aware, emptied trash bin, deleted cookies and
> internet files, ran disk
> >cleanup and left it doing a defrag. I'm afraid I might
> have to reload XP.
> >Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Patrick
> >
> >The following replys were from 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
> (trimmed)
>
> You have a lot of good replies on this one already.
> I think that the causes folks would most commonly check
> out to try and cure slow boot and operation would be:
> (in order)
> Virus/Trojan
> Too many programs in start up/ too little memory
> Hardware.
> If you have eliminated infections as a possibility,
> and the machine doesn't have critical data (or if you can
> back up any critical data on it) a clean install sounds
> like the way to go. Followed by hardware diagnostics if
> the problem remains. Followed by exorcism.
>
> -Sarah
> This message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons.
>

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