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computer technicians or people????my computer is very slow on startup???
December 13, 2010
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Maybe its your Internet service! Call them and make sure your signal is strong all the stuff that you have done it should be fixed! Or go back to the date your computer started this and system re-store click on the start button and go to the control panel you will see a screen that has a calender choose a date that you know your computer was functioning well.
Uninstall all your spyware programs and your virus scan programs. Then go by a comprehensive virus scanner from the store that covers all these things. Like mcafeeasap.com
Also check task manager to find out how much physical memory you have available and what average cpu usage is.
Man, for a thousand bucks I’d have built you a custom box in the color of your choice.
But, I digress.
How sure are you of all the claims you have made in your post?
How did you clean the registry? If you cleaned the registry by using a program that popped up on your computer saying you have registry errors, you probably threw away your money and damaged your registry. Just because a file doesn’t exist doesn’t mean that Windows wont create it and then dispose of it when it needs to. If the registry entry that controls the creation of the file is removed by a cheap registry cleaner, then Windows will have a "hole" in it so to speak. When this file is not created, Windows suffers.
If you use Norton or McAfee as your virus protection, then you aren’t getting much protection, and your computer is under a heavy burden.
I will however not go into all that and take you at face value, that you have done these things with quality tools, and you knew what you were doing.
I have seen this extremely long boot problem a few times. If you discount the issue being software, you must conclude that the problem might be hardware.
Loose memory, or should I say unseated, memory will do this. If you have two sticks of memory, pull one of them and see if the problem goes away. Test each piece by itself. Might get lucky.
You might have a failing CDROM or DVD player. I do not know exactly why, but sometimes they can really drag down the boot process. Pull the cord and boot up without the CD/DVD, see if the problem goes away. If you have more than one, test them individually.
An unseated expansion card will do this. Open your case and push straight down with your finger tips on the top of all these cards in your system. Remember that you are just trying to make sure they are seated, you do not need to push super hard, just tighten the connection. Pay particular attention to any AGP video cards. They have what I call a "Tail Nail", some sort of clip to hold the card seated at the back end. Make sure that this is engaged.
Go into your control panel, open up administrative tools and click on event viewer. In the box that pops up, you will see some headings on the left, and a viewing pane on the right. The ones we want to look at are "Applications" (Software), and "System" (Hardware). Click on either one in the Left plane and you will see the log in the right. If the first thing you see is a lot of red, you got some problems.
For instance, If you open "System" and see a lot of errors (red ones) labeled cdrom, you have a bad CD Drive. Scattered yellow and a couple of reds are no big deal, But a lot of reds is bad.
The same for Applications (Software), If you see a lot of IE errors, suspect spyware or viruses, If a device driver keeps failing, reload the driver.
If none of that helps, pull the expansion cards one at a time. Always return it before pulling the next, so you can be sure of which component is causing the problem.
Even after all this if you have found no solution, it might still be hardware. It could be your processor or motherboard, in which case you probably cannot test it yourself.
Do you have good surge protection? A lightning strike in the neighborhood can lightly zap your system. Typically though, in this case it would probably be slow all the time, instead of only at boot.
That is another thing, Is it in fact only slow at booting and just fine all the rest of the time? Or is slow a lot of the time and agonizingly slow at boot? If you are sure of the steps you have taken, I would bet on the dying CD. If you have moved your computer lately, I would bet on a loose card.
Well, I believe you might need to reduce the number of startup program. you can adjust one through regedit > my comp > Hkey Current user > Software >Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Run. Delete any that you didn’t need.
The other way is through control panel > admin tool > services. adjust it.
of course the easiest (and free) way to fasten this up is by reinstalling your windows….
Best… Reformat, reinstall….start fresh.
Otherwise…
Process tamer…
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/processtamer.html
Disable processes…
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2151214,00.asp
Startup delayer…
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/startdelay.html
I know that this can be very frustrating.
First thing is to boot up your computer and go into the Bios. you should check the boot sequence so that it boots off of the hard drive first. If it has auto detect selected change it to your hard drive, and leave it there. This should stop the problem if it based on the system being confused as to witch drive to boot from.
Next: http://www.ccleaner.com/
Follow this link and download Ccleaner. This is a awesome program that will not only clean crap that is not necessary out of windows it will also allow you to choose witch programs will load on start up. If you have too many programs starting with windows it will take a lifetime to boot up. I have seen fast computers take 10 min or more to boot when they are overloaded with programs that are booting on start up.
Third is to use the "issues" part of Ccleaner. This will clean up the registry of any misguided shortcuts or any other issues that maybe slowing down your rig.
Try this:
1. check your hard drive, at least 1GB of free space
2. defrag your pc
3. remove programs in your taskbar/startup programs that you can manually start like messenger
you need to remove some files into a CD because probably your computer is full
It could be a hardware problem. Or over heating. Have you tried doing windows updates yet?
check how many programs you have set to start up when windows opens they can slow the boot process way down.empty all shortcuts out of your start up file and set programs like yahoo messenger or other chat programs to be opened manually after your computer is started
Start > Run > Type in msconfig > Click on the startup tab >Unclick mostly all the boxes > Restart.
And you computer starts up faster.
Also if you want certain program to automatically start up agian just go back into msconfig and check the boxes.
If that doesn’t work just reformat the compuer but make sure you save all you important data and it will be working like new.
What are your computer specs?
Did you go to your tools and delete all temporary files and also the cookies?
did u defrag it?