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Old 18-09-2006, 19:12   #1
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XP Home dire slow boot up

My dads XP Home has taken at least 45 mins to boot, I tried to run AV & Adware Sw but gave up.

tried to boot up in safe mode but 15mins and counting

Also the processor is running at 100%

any ideas, reformating not an option.

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Is it possible for only one account in XP to be affected, leaving others on the system untouched?

I've boot using my login and i've got in far quicker.
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Old 18-09-2006, 19:16   #2
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

CPU running at 100% would point to an issue with a program starting up or a virus. Can you boot from an XP CD and re-install, choose to leave the files intact and only remove the Windows Folder?
If you can't boot to Safe mode then you are stuck for ways around it

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If you can use your login then something on the other profile is knackered, can you get into the start up menu for that profile or use this
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
to stop anything running from startup on that profile which could be causing the problem? If you are an admin try checking the admin tools, event viewer for issues.
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

I second what Paul says... As usual, good advice.
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Old 18-09-2006, 19:25   #4
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

ive seen a svchost fault crop up resently on a few machines where for some reason its running the cpu at 100 % close it once using task manager then it doesnt load 100% again (I know it dont make sense)
If you can stop whatever it is in task manager you should be able to stop it starting up also.It could also be a bad controller driver or ata lead but this is a remote chance
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

What svchost? Ive got 5 of them. I shut them all down and the system shut down
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

Could it be that the drive is in PIO mode,,, thus causing 100% CPU usage and slow loading of, well, everything form disc.
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Old 18-09-2006, 19:46   #7
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What svchost? Ive got 5 of them. I shut them all down and the system shut down
you only needed to do it if one of them was 100% lol
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

As soon as the desktop appears and its still booting, hit ctrl-alt-del if you can, and lanch task manager. Go to processes, and click the CPU header a couple of times so the highest value is at the top.

What's using the most?
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

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What svchost? Ive got 5 of them. I shut them all down and the system shut down

check out some of the links in the thread you started a long time back ...lol

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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

there are 36 processes all have '00'

javaw.exe = 33,120k
explorer.exe = 16,776k
vsmon.exe = 12, 992k
svchost.exe = 10,448k (3,620k, 3,180k, 2,704k & 1,688k for the others)

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services.exe cpu now =99
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Whats the path of the services.exe at 100%?
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

I managed after several hours to use a sysem restore point, which has solved the problem (I hope).

I ran AVG and found nothing.

I ran ad-ware (Lavasoft) and found loads of stuff.

Could adware stuff cause a 100% processor used
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depends on what it found to be honest, may have just been a damaged system file.
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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

Now that your 'in' what progs have you got loading at start up ? run>msconfig>start up tab, I had a friends lappy do almost the same as yours, whenn it eventually let me in there were about 20 progs loading, take out ( untick ) what you don't need, this will save some resources as well.

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Re: XP Home dire slow boot up

Some reading for you

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Its always good to google for anything your not sure of in Task manager, even start up.
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