bootup problems with winXP

[saimike]

winXP on my a64 3000+ slows down *immensely* once its running. antivir starts then nothing else works. mouse moves. but when the mouse cursor is over the startmenu, i see an hourglass.

very very very slowly, i see some of my programs load on the systray. and when i click on programs, it takes minutes (5min? 10min?) for them to load. what is going on? task manager show very little cpu activity. i dont hear the chatter of the hdd in the case.

anybody knows what is going on?

 

[Tarrant64]

What kind of processes do you see when you look at your task manager? Anything suspicious?

CTRL-ALT-DEL -> Task Manager -> Processes.

This will show you usually what is taking up the most memory/CPU power.

Also, normally what do you have launch on start up? If you haven't done so already, start using some anti-spyware tools such as AdAware or Spybot S&D.

 

[saimike]

i will try to look at the taskmanager processes. it'll probably take 30min to do that

from the first tab of taskmanager. i can see <10% cpu utilization and memory doesnt look too bad (cant remember exact number). i'm wondering if its the memory actually, cos i just took out my stick of 512 and put in 2x512.

on startup, i have zonealarm and anti-vir running.

 

[saimike]

noticed nothing suspicious, but found that booting into safemode+networking did not slow down the pc.

any ideas folks?

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: saimike
noticed nothing suspicious, but found that booting into safemode+networking did not slow down the pc.

any ideas folks?

Look at the drivers you are using, update as required and what ever is running in msconfig, start-up tab. Isolate these one at a time until you locate the offender.

pcgeek11

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: saimike
noticed nothing suspicious, but found that booting into safemode+networking did not slow down the pc.

any ideas folks?

Look at the drivers you are using, update as required and what ever is running in msconfig, start-up tab. Isolate these one at a time until you locate the offender.

pcgeek11

 

[saimike]

looks like its the ati catalyst drivers!

i gave up searching one by one and re-installed windows. then put in software etc one by one. when i installed the newest catalyst 6.11 drivers, it happened! so i sent ati a nasty email.

so the question now is, how do i uninstall the drivers and generic windows display drivers? whatever i tried didnt seem to work.