Slow Startup on Windows XP Home Ed. 3

[jackg304]

I bought this new Dell 4600 series about 6 months ago. It came with win.xp installed. It has always worked great until about 4 days ago. I also have Road Runner ISP. My problem is this, each time I shut my pc down & restart it,it gets to log on ok,once I log on & go to msn the page comes on but it is blank. It takes between 1 & 2 min. to load the page. If I start out on my email "outlook express" it does the same thing.After I get the pages loaded everything works fine.I have run NAV,SpyBot,Ad-Aware,disk cleanup,defrag.& system restore, and nothing has helped.I thought it might be IE6 & I could repair it like I did on win.98"add and remove programs" but I cannot find how to uninstall or re-install my IE6 browser.It is not listed on the add & remove list. What have I done to my PC?
Thanks in advance for any help I can get.
JackG304

 

[minxca]

try to run bootvis before you reinstall your IE. I don't think you can get bootvis from MS site anymore but you still can download it from the net.

 

[jackg304]

Thanks, I just tried bootvis & it didn't change it at all.

One thing I just found, there is 31 programs? in Task manager. Is that not too many. My win.98 only had about 5 or 6.

jack.

 

[GlenJohnson]

You're loading 31 programs? Way to many. Can you list them here and we'll tell you what is needed and what is junk?

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[jackg304]

In win.task manager, do you need the applications list or the processes list? All the programs or (files) is listed in the process tab.
Thx, Jack

 

[GlenJohnson]

We need the processes that are listed in the startup folder. These will be all the programs that are being started. Right click your start button and choose explore. Under all users, choose start menu, then programs, then startup. That folder will list all the programs that start when you turn on your machine. Good luck.

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[ndhruve]

I am having the same problem. I dont think it is the number of processes but someother bug. I recently built my computer and installed win XP pro with all the updates and SP2. It seems that the network connections take a while to start also my intrnet connection software will take time to start. What i noticed is that my antivirus software got enabled with all the other things(internet, network). Also during the period when no-network stuff is working the security center is also not enabled. it also comes on with the other stuff. weird

 

[tcambridge]

You can run 'msconfig' to see all programs that are starting, even if they aren't listed in the All Programs > Startup group. Determine which programs need to run and uncheck the ones that don't. Reboot and see if that fixes the problem. You may want to try one at a time so you'll know which one is causing the problem. But with 31 running, you may want to try two or three

Hope this helps...

Tim
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[GlenJohnson]

It could be programs fighting each other. I installed the newest version of Norton anti-virus, and it included a personal firewall. Machine slowed to a crawl a few days later, turns out Zone and Norton were fighting, and my machine was losing. Un-installed zone, machine has been great. Make sure all programs are compatable.

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