Very slow Win2k startup & MS office errors as a result

[larrens]

Hi

A few days ago my PC started taking about 40 minutes to startup (Win2000). This was out of the blue & new now s/w or h/w was installed. If I try opening up Explorer for eg this to takes 10 minutes.

I reinstalled Win2000. It is still painfully slow & I cannot access MS Office now. It brings up the "installer" when I try to open an Office product & then when I try reinstalling Office it says it cannot find the path & nothing happens.
Any ideas?
Could the extreme slowness be faulty ram?

Please help.

Thanks

 

[plewis68]

Hi, you might want to run a scandisk to see if you have any bad sectors/clusters on your hard drive. I've seen this kind of problem and when the hard drive is replaced it fixes it, usually.

How to run scandisk in Win2000
1. Double click My Computer
2. Right Click mouse on Local Disk(c and click properties.
3. Click on the Tools tab.
4. Look under Error-Checking and click Check Now.
5. Select both options, click ok
6. Reboot and it will run before it boots up.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

Patrick

 

[dumdum]

From Start > Run type in... SFC /Scannow

This will run the System File Checker and repair any system files that may be corrupt. Be sure to have your W2K disk ready when your computer prompts you to insert it.

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[smactek]

And Just one more to add, Have you done a virus scan lately?

"Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"

 

[jrIStech]

if none of those work
-reinstall everything over from scratch and monitor each software/application you install so you know what is using your up your resources

*also get more RAM

 

[larrens]

Thanks for the tips.

I reformatted everything as nothing seemed to work.

Cheers