Slow Startup

[coxmaster]

For quite sometime my PC has been somewhat slow to startup. It wasnt a problem before because i usually Fold (dont restart often so i didnt mind waiting) but now i feel like i should at least try to figure out what the problem is.

Specs:
Q6600 (OC 3.5Ghz)
6 GB OCZ Ram
8800GT
Seagate 320GB HD, 16MB Cache
XFX 680i LT
Vista HP X64

Everything works fine, and it starts up pretty fast.. but after windows is open to the desktop it takes another few minutes to be able to do anything. I have disabled literally EVERY non-essential startup application. It just takes forever to launch anything after startup.

Any suggestions on what could be the problem? I have run AVG, Asquared, Spybot.. and a few other Virus/Spyware scanners. Nothing major found, and its all fixed now.

Suggestions/thoughts?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Either you have some hiden backgrond application slowing you up like maleware. Or the system is just cluttered. When was the last time you defreagged. That may or may not help. But often windows xp needs a very good cleaning or a complete wipe and reinstall.

I just recently performed a clean install on all of my systems. They have been running for about the past 2 years and where showing signes of slowing. Windows booted up fine but like you it was slow from the time of logging in and when i was actully able to sart using windows without having allot of lag. But of cource one everything was loaded up and ready to go the system was fine.

 

[coxmaster]

Clean wipe and re-install is not an option. I dont have the time or patience to reinstall all my apps. I probably couldnt even find some of them if i tried.

Defragged 15 minutes ago, thats not the problem. Also, this is Vista.. not XP

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: coxmaster
Clean wipe and re-install is not an option. I dont have the time or patience to reinstall all my apps. I probably couldnt even find some of them if i tried.

Defragged 15 minutes ago, thats not the problem. Also, this is Vista.. not XP

You'll learn that a clean install is well worth the time and effort especially when it comes to computer speed. There is really no easy quick and dirty fix for a computer that starts to get bogged down.

 

[coxmaster]

I realize that a new install helps a TON.. but there has got to be something that is actually causing the slowdown.. right?

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

does it load nice and fast to the point the wallpaper comes up, then stall and take a couple minutes to bring the taskbar and icons up with just the wallpaper and mouse showing? with little to no disk activity and hardly any cpu usage while it sits there and then suddenly everything (icons, taskbar) comes in normal?

mine was doing that (XP SP3) for no particular reason for a while. I also rarely reboot so I never bothered about it but I noticed that the last windows update with net 3.5 seemed to of fixed it.

still no clue as to what it was though..

 

[coxmaster]

Ya, that seems to be a pretty good description of what it is doing.. I think i'll just keep playing around with things to see if anything i disable improves speed.