Computer wizards????

[f5fstop]

My new laptop is suddenly taking forever to boot up. What I mean to boot up is the Windows XP startup screen stays on now for up to four minutes, versus the less than one minute it was on when first purchased.
I have run a complete Norton Virus Scan, Adware SE, PC Spy Doctor Scans and Trojan Removal scan and no viruses, trojans or any spyware (other than the standard tracking types) were shown and removed.
What could suddenly cause this problem.
I really hate to call HP customer service since I have a hard time speaking Indian.

[ree]

I'm not a wizard but...have you tried booting into safe mode yet and seeing if it's just as slow? You typically need to press and hold F8 as the machine is starting to get to the boot menu that allows you to choose the boot options.

These articles are hardly good tutorials but they'll explain how to boot with as little as possible enabled and then reboot with more options/drivers enabled. Keep doing this until you see where the big slowdown occurs.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;316434

This article is more of a tutorial:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1643

I once had a motherboard NIC on a desktop system go bad and when network was "started" everything went to hell and the PC started crawling. The network worked well, but had lots of failures and required a lot of packet resending.

[BlueTJCO]

command prompt

msconfig

go to start up tab.......

uncheck what you dont need at startup.....


Could also be your HDD is failing......spyware is a possibility but prob not if you have run spybot s&d and adaware se..................

[alldunn]

A format and clean install is a good idea every now and then, IMHO.

[BlueTJCO]

Originally Posted by alldunn

A format and clean install is a good idea every now and then, IMHO.

why? There is no need to format the drive and do a clean install unless he has exhausted every other option IMHO...................

do you work for geek squad?

[alldunn]

Originally Posted by Mooncricket

why? There is no need to format the drive and do a clean install unless he has exhausted every other option IMHO...................

Guarantee you I can reformat a machine and reimage it faster that you can figure out what the h3ll is going on with it (in some cases). I'm not saying reformat becasue the f'ing thing won't print. But for our workstations, most of the time that is the quickest solution...we are using Citrix, so really not installing any software.

Originally Posted by Mooncricket

do you work for geek squad?

doubt they pay enough to buy the gas for my H2.

[ree]

Originally Posted by alldunn

A format and clean install is a good idea every now and then, IMHO.

That's BS. Care and nurturing can keep a windows box going without a reinstall for a loooong time. Of course, you have to know what you're doing.

[BlueTJCO]

Originally Posted by ree

That's BS. Care and nurturing can keep a windows box going without a reinstall for a loooong time. Of course, you have to know what you're doing.

thank you.....