TSGL: Extremely slow booting

[The Computer Whisperer]

Maybe the Hard Disk Drive is full of photos and crap? maybe.....

You need a couple of gigabytes free generally speaking, you should try and
keep 30% of your HDD space clear as a good rule of thumb.

Justin


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On 15/12/06, H Davis <hdavis1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Heidi,
>
> Maybe you can get your friend to at least count the number of icons that
> show up in the system tray. That's the area between the "<" and the
> clock in the lower right corner of the screen. She might have to click
> on the "<" to get all the icons exposed. If she rests her mouse over
> each icon, without clicking, a "tool tip" should show up with a clue
> about what it's for. That, too, would be helpful.
>
> This might allow you to determine if the problem is really coming from
> too many programs loading at startup.
>
> It might also help to know what kind of machine she has and what
> operating system. A bonus would be how much memory does it have. Perhaps
> your diplomatic skills can get "husband" to click on Start, then _right_
> click on My Computer, click on Properties then select the General tab.
> The operating system details are at the top and the processor speed and
> amount of memory are at the bottom.
>
> The "Norton Pack with firewall and antivirus software" doesn't sound
> promising. Norton, in all its flavors, is a notorious resource hog.
>
> Your friend at least has some defenses in place but is she updating the
> AV software etc? If your friend is as computer unaware as you indicate,
> there's a chance the machine is infected with multiple bad stuff which
> will cause the behavior you describe. But because she has the Norton
> Suite I'm going to keep a good thought and not jump on that right away.
>
> Need a lot more info.
>
> H Davis
>
>
> Heidi Schröder wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> >
> >
> > once again I am trying to solve a problem for my friend - she does know
> > absolutely nothing about the technical side of a computer. Her husband
> > obviously is not much better but is willing to follow how to work out
> things
> > when it is written down clearly.
> >
> >
> >
> > Now by chance I came to know that their computer does take roughly 10
> > minutes to boot up after being completely switched off and about 5
> minutes
> > even to wake up from Standby mode (seems that has been this way always
> or
> > for a long time already at least). It is Windows XP for sure, home
> edition
> > is my guess and I hope they are doing all updates as well. I know for
> sure
> > they are using Internet Explorer (probably still 6, as my friend did not
> > mention any problems with a new view of Internet Explorer) and they are
> > using some Norton Pack with firewall and antivirus software. Lately the
> > computer became very slow in general so I have told them to do a general
> > clean-up which obviously did work as by now my friend can write her
> mails
> > without the terrible delay she had then. But I have really no idea what
> > programme to advise them for to check the start-up folder which was my
> first
> > guess for the long delay. I mean, all such programmes I came to know so
> far,
> > usually are not really good for you when you do not know quite a bit
> about
> > the programmes you have installed and all that.
> >
> >
> >
> > As I can't imagine there can be that much in the start-up folder to slow
> the
> > computer down that badly - are there any other problems that can slow
> the
> > computer down at booting that much?
> >
> >
> >
> > I know it is the usual difficult bit and I ask for a lot of guessing,
> but
> > please do it - I will not get more information from my friend as she
> does
> > not want to get into the computer stuff more than absolutely
> necessary  and
> > her husband will not talk to me, the person who does know all computer
> > things better usually.
> >
> >
> >
> > Have a nice day
> >
> > Heidi
> >
> >
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