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Don’t know what else to do. Have defragged run virus scans and disabled some of my programmes on start up, such as the printer,windows media blah blah. Yet still taking 10-15 minutes to load. Don,t have much stuff on it any ideas welcome cheers x
@rednotdead wrote:
Don’t know what else to do. Have defragged run virus scans and disabled some of my programmes on start up, such as the printer,windows media blah blah. Yet still taking 10-15 minutes to load. Don,t have much stuff on it any ideas welcome cheers x
Instead of using dial up get broadband or something :lol:
:roll:
I cant even get the defrag thing to finish on mine before it shuts down lol
Have you tried an on-line scan like kaspersky or something similar?
Try http://www.majorgeeks.com, they have some good links for online scans, but go for the recommended ones only.
You may have to fly naked though (turn off existing protection) as they may conflict :wink:
cheers shazza will try that now much appreciated x x :wink: :wink: 8) :P
Tell us what anti-virus / firewall you are using. Some of them use an enormous amount of computer resource to run and this might be a possible source of your problem.
Are you running any ‘programmes’ that start up (in DOS) before Windows starts? I’m thinking of Norton Go-Back for example etc.
However, if by ”load” you mean that it takes Windows 10-15 minutes to start up (after you initiallly switch on and the the ‘POST’ screen appears) and presents you with the desktop, then you most certainly have a big problem.
When you initially switch the computer on you will hear it ”beep” after 2 or 3 seconds. Can you listen to the ”beeps” and tell us how many there are, and whether they are long orshort ”beeps”.
Have you run a thorough virus scan? If not then you should run one – preferably in ‘Safe Mode’.
well cheers for your help and advice shazza and PB…. it was a driver that was screwed and knackered u[ my whole pc… eventuall managed to find the nvidia4 disp needed and comp is runnig better than it was before !! also downloaded a free thing called advanced windows care….. cheers for your help much appreciated…. bloody drivers get on my boobies :wink: :oops: 8) :lol:
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