Extremely slow Windows Start-up?

Question

Recently my computer has been starting up very slowly - 15 minutes plus. I noticed this after installing software for a creative zen mp4 player (which I wouldn't have thought would have caused the problem) and avast! anti-virus software. Could this have caused the problem? It started being slow immediately after restarting my pc after installing the Mp4 player software. What should I do about this problem? Please help!

Answer 1

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

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Answer 2

Remove the newly installed softwares from getting loaded at startup by removing the entries from startup. to do this goto Start->Programs->Statup and check what programs have entries and remove all those which are not needed during startup, this will greatly reduce the system booting time.

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Answer 3

1) Remove those programs from your start-up which you feel

are unnecessary

2) Run a spy-ware remover

3) Optimize your registry by using a program such as

registry mechanic which is available on download.com

4) De-fragment your computer using the disk defragmenter

If all else fails take a backup and reformat your hard drive.

Answer 4

Check http://www.pc-optimizer-pro.com

With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer.

It will help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades.

Answer 5

Sounds like you're infected. Did you get your software from a legitimate source or did you get it as a torrent from limewire or some other P2P site such as bearshare. These sharing sites are often infected with malware and it is trying to load and run when you start up, that's why it's slow.

Remove Avast and MP4 player through the control panel. Go to the site below and download the free version, install it update it and run a scan.

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti...

Then go to:-

http://www.download.com/2000-2001_4-0.ht...

and download your programs again and install. There is a search engine at the top where you can search for your programs.

Stay away from P2P sites.

Answer 6

For running slow there are many causes:

Microsoft Registry Problems = Slow Computer!

Spyware/Adware

RAM

De-Fragmenting

Etc.

Below can help you speed up your pc:

Manage your startup:

Open your Start menu  ->  Click Run ->  In the command screen type "msconfig.exe" ->  In the "system configuration utility", click either "service" or "startup" tab ->  Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.

De-Fragmenting

1. Right click of C Disk.

2. Click properties.

3. Click tools tab.

4. Click "Defragment now".

5. Click Defragment.

You can search which process full use you cpu, and end the process.

Under steps:

1. right click on the TaskBar.

2. click the Task Manager.

3. click the processes tab.

4. double click the CPU.

5. find if the "System Idle Process" is max.

6. if not right click and click end process.

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Answer 7

is your problem only during startup or is your computer slow all the time now?

the most likely cause of your problem is that you have too many programs running in the back and not enough memory.

if you want to disable some of the useless program from automaticlly running in the background do this: (for windows 98/2000/me/xp)

click on the start button

click on run

type in "msconfig" (without the quotation)

click on the "startup" tab

now uncheck all the unessasary boxes, the only boxes that need to be checked are the antivirus and antispyware software.

after you are done click ok and restart your computer.

Answer 8

install additional Random Access Memory (RAM)...

Answer 9

try superantispyware - free and Glary utilities to clean things up