Computer is absolutely unusable on startup

[platinumike]

it is absolutely unusable when it has just booted up, it will look normal and the mouse moves around like normal but clicking anything will not give you a response for like 5 minutes. However if you just let it sit for like an hour or so, it eventually gets back to normal and is quite fast. I was having a problem with spyware/viruses before so i installed a few virus programs I heard good reviews about. I dont have much running on startup either, just mcafee and one of the newly installed virus programs, and thats about it.

It is so frustrating that I just reboot into safemode with networking and it runs absolutely fine, no problems at all on startup.

Another problem im having is when I try logging into administrator I get a blank desktop and no taskbar, just a mouse with my desktop. Help me out, thanks dudes.

 

[deathwalker]

First...most opinions are in line with the concept that there is Zero advantage to running multiple Virus programs. Second..if these problem do not persist in safemode then it is most likely not a virus and more likely to be a driver issue or problem with one of your startup programs. When in the safemode go into msconfig and turn off "all" startup items..even your virus protection and restart the system. If the problem still persists upon startup I would start the system with m XP install disk and start up the Repair Console...and at the prompt run C:\chkdsk /r..let it run it takes a while. If this doesnt fix the problem I would probably do a Repair Reinstall.