Major Computer Slowdown

[Gloryfieldzi]

well, all of a sudden, my computer became extremely slow.

I was thinking it's either windows XP, or it's a hard drive problem

It now takes aprximately 7 minutes to startup computer (Slows down majorly at the xp black loading screen with those green boxes scrolling accross, it scrolls for like 6 minutes) , before taking less than 30 seconds, and now all my programs run much slower.

I checked the ram and i had 130 free megs of ram, so that's not a prob.

I have WD 120 gig 8mb cache SE hd

Windows XP Professional + XP Service Pack 1
AMD Athlon ThunderBird 1333mhz Stock speed
Samsung 256 DDR PC2100
Asus A7A266 MotherBoard
Sapphire Radeon 9500 Pro OEM
300 Watts Power Supply
SoundBlaster PCI128

 

[theAnimal]

You can use BootVis to monitor boot, this may tell you where it's hanging.

Also Run sigverif to check for unsigned files

You could try a system restore.