Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
|
My computer takes ages to start up and its ages before I can do anything after I've logged in, is there something that can log stuff like that or display it, so I can uninstall, disable stuff? Running Win 2000.
|
gooner_47
Member
Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
User status: Offline
|
Start - Run - msconfig
Startup tab, uncheck what you don't need. http://www.processlibrary.com/ handy site for finding out what each process is associated with.
A program I use called Spy Sweeper, monitors PC in real time, and alerts you if something is trying to add another process to the startup.
|
_Allan_
Member
Registered: 24th Mar 04
User status: Offline
|
HijackThis (Program) - Free
Guide here...
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=42
[Edited on 23-09-2005 by _Allan_]
|
jamesw
Member
Registered: 28th Jun 02
Location: Station Town, County Durham
User status: Offline
|
microsoft made a program called bootvis, is now disconntinued as far as i know but should be able to get hold of it, basically it will make a tracefile of a bootup process and show exactly whats taking the time - also has an optimize fuction to rearrange files etc etc mixed reports really ive used it on loads of systems that have taken a while to bootup and have worked very well, however tried it on mine that booted up pretty quick to start with and actually made it slower.
[Edited on 23-09-2005 by jamesw]
|
Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
|
I only about about 20 processes running on startup, no spyware and been through services.msc etc., but its still slow with loads of HDD activity!
|
Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
|
Cheers James I'll check that out.
|
ed
Member
Registered: 10th Sep 03
User status: Offline
|
Do you have any network connections that aren't connected? Windows gets very stressed out if it cannot connect to the things it wants to!
|
Cybermonkey
Member
Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
User status: Offline
|
Ian, might well be Explorer.exe. there is a scrpit problem where this service will literally hog all system resources, causing massive slowdown.
heres a test to see if its explorer.exe causing the problems, open up My Computer and leave it there for a sec, ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager and keep an eye on explorer.exe in the processes tab, right click on D: and hold it there, or whatever cdrom is used without a CD in the drive, and watch to see if explorer.exe hangs about with near 100% CPU time for longer than a second, if it does and doesnt drop back down to idle time.
Try going through the Windows Explorer settings and make it a SEPARATE PROCESS.
The 100% pegging can occur when the desktop is trying to render a lot of information, but WinExplorer is equally trying to process folder and drive stuff.
|
Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
|
It didn't display the menu for a second or so, but processor usage was normal. I'll try running for a bit with explorer as a separate process though, see how that affects things.
|
