PC Start-Up

[Everhelpful]

Can anyone help,it takes my PC 5minutes to start from switch on. I have tried everything in Start Menu,plus ms configure to no avail. Many Thanks for any replies.

[Ethel]

Have you tried the usual things that may (or may not!) help but certainly would be good things to do in any case:

Clear cache, cookies and temporary files.
Defrag all hard drives and partitions.
Run spyware and trojan hunters.

I suggest you use Ewido, A squared, X-cleaner, spybot and ad-aware. They are all free.

Which firewall do you use? Norton could be responsible for your problems.

When your computer has finally booted and before you open any programmes, have a look at your task manager. How many processes are running?

[vehelpfulguy]

This can sometimes be caused by Windows looking for an external device or network that is no longer there.

I do not know youre setup, but if you have ever connected to a remote PC or network, and then that device has been removed, it can cause a delay like this.

I installed Windows 2003 (for servers) at home once and it used to take 30 MINUTES for the deskop to appear. Never found out why and gave up using it.

[Everhelpful]

Thank you for your replies.I have done all the usual thigs as you suggest,although I don't know how to clear cache,cookies and temp.files. I am using ad-aware and spybot at the moment and my Firewall is built in with my Broadband connection. I should add,this problem has only started in the last few weeks although I have not installed anything untoward to my knowledge.

[Ethel]

To clear your cookies and so on, in Internet Explorer:

Tools - options - general

Delete cookies, delete temporary fles, delete history

[Longree]

This is most probably because your profile is very large.
Remove some files in:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUsername
(If you know what your doing).

Or, the best option, is to create a whole new windows username account. As the profile of this new user would be deault. I find this is the best option for me.

[Everhelpful]

Thanks,Longree,but I don't know how to do that.