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Today, my boot-up took over 10 minutes verse the normal 45 Seconds...what is wrong?
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Patrick Casher
I'm havin problems too:
My son has a desktop PIII on a wireless router they use for the internet and
for the children to play games with. I'm sure it's been abused. It takes
about 5 min to be able to access the start menu. The boot screen comes on
and after a minute the keyboard lights flash and it proceeds to slowly boot
up. There doesn't appear to be too many fonts in explorer or word. I tried
doing a restore going back as far as I could and it didn't help. Ran
ad-aware, emptied trash bin, deleted cookies and internet files, ran disk
cleanup and left it doing a defrag. I'm afraid I might have to reload XP.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Patrick
The following replys were from 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
You probrably have a virus or trojan.
In addition to ad-aware try to run spybot - it is free.
Also: download stinger from NAI - scans your system for trojans.
HTH
They run AVG freeware I should run a scan. I've added the hosts file and
restricted zone domains but I know it might be after the fact. Does anyone
in this group have any input? Thanks in advance.
Patrick
Stinger is NOT a cure-all. It is not really for Trojans. It is McAfee's
Internet worm
removal tool. There are a couple of Trojans that stinger covers only
because they
co-exist/cooperate with certain worms covered by Stinger. Stinger ONLY
covers ~39 infectors
and their variants of the 83K+ known infectors.
Please go to McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp) and/or
Trend
(http://housecall.antivirus.com ) and perform an online scan of your
platform then report
back your results.
Based upon those results, we can go on from there.
Dave
I was overthere today for a couple of hours. I fired up Free Scan but it
only got up to 31,000 files left it running. I'll check back with them
tomorrow.
Patrick
Called son this am he said virus scan finished nothing found. Planning to
go there this afternoon and run RbKiller, CWShredder, and an updated
Ad-Aware.
Patrick
RbKiller and CWShredder found nothing. Ad-Aware found 9 items, deleted them.
Noticed firewall Zonealarm not running tried to start it but it would pop up
then dissapear. I downloaded the latest version and reinstalled.
Dounloaded the latest AVG update and started it running. Left and will call
them back for the results.
Patrick
Son called back scan ran error free. I'm running out of ideas. Maybe I'll
run hijackthis and send in the log. Does anyone have any further
suggestions?
Thanks,
Patrick
Got this tip from their webmaster while waiting for reply on hijackthis log
will check it
out
Hijackthis log came back clean. Planning to get back to son's and run
stinger, updated ad-aware, and checkout services. Anyone have any other
ideas?
Ran updated ad-aware, checkedout services both ok. Removed MS patch
Q811493 which was supposed to be causing problems in the past according
to the web but it didn't help. Tried removing anti virus program AVG but
no change. Started running Stinger and asked son to check on it later.
Called
him back next day and he didn't see result window. Plan to run it again.
If runs
clean plan to reload format and reload XP.
Patrick
My son has a desktop PIII on a wireless router they use for the internet and
for the children to play games with. I'm sure it's been abused. It takes
about 5 min to be able to access the start menu. The boot screen comes on
and after a minute the keyboard lights flash and it proceeds to slowly boot
up. There doesn't appear to be too many fonts in explorer or word. I tried
doing a restore going back as far as I could and it didn't help. Ran
ad-aware, emptied trash bin, deleted cookies and internet files, ran disk
cleanup and left it doing a defrag. I'm afraid I might have to reload XP.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Patrick
The following replys were from 24hoursupport.helpdesk:
You probrably have a virus or trojan.
In addition to ad-aware try to run spybot - it is free.
Also: download stinger from NAI - scans your system for trojans.
HTH
They run AVG freeware I should run a scan. I've added the hosts file and
restricted zone domains but I know it might be after the fact. Does anyone
in this group have any input? Thanks in advance.
Patrick
Stinger is NOT a cure-all. It is not really for Trojans. It is McAfee's
Internet worm
removal tool. There are a couple of Trojans that stinger covers only
because they
co-exist/cooperate with certain worms covered by Stinger. Stinger ONLY
covers ~39 infectors
and their variants of the 83K+ known infectors.
Please go to McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp) and/or
Trend
(http://housecall.antivirus.com ) and perform an online scan of your
platform then report
back your results.
Based upon those results, we can go on from there.
Dave
I was overthere today for a couple of hours. I fired up Free Scan but it
only got up to 31,000 files left it running. I'll check back with them
tomorrow.
Patrick
Called son this am he said virus scan finished nothing found. Planning to
go there this afternoon and run RbKiller, CWShredder, and an updated
Ad-Aware.
Patrick
RbKiller and CWShredder found nothing. Ad-Aware found 9 items, deleted them.
Noticed firewall Zonealarm not running tried to start it but it would pop up
then dissapear. I downloaded the latest version and reinstalled.
Dounloaded the latest AVG update and started it running. Left and will call
them back for the results.
Patrick
Son called back scan ran error free. I'm running out of ideas. Maybe I'll
run hijackthis and send in the log. Does anyone have any further
suggestions?
Thanks,
Patrick
Got this tip from their webmaster while waiting for reply on hijackthis log
will check it
out
on next visit.
Patrick:
Member
Group: Full Member
Posts: 52
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Joined: 14-April 03
Hi Patrick Casher-
You might try this.. go to Blackvipers site here and read up on XP's
services. Just make sure that you FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS as he lay's them
out for you to (playing around with services can cause problems) I am not an
expert on Hijack this logs, so please wait for one to reply as per your log.
It looks clean to me.
Hijackthis log came back clean. Planning to get back to son's and run
stinger, updated ad-aware, and checkout services. Anyone have any other
ideas?
Ran updated ad-aware, checkedout services both ok. Removed MS patch
Q811493 which was supposed to be causing problems in the past according
to the web but it didn't help. Tried removing anti virus program AVG but
no change. Started running Stinger and asked son to check on it later.
Called
him back next day and he didn't see result window. Plan to run it again.
If runs
clean plan to reload format and reload XP.
Patrick
is wrong?JavaJoe said:Today, my boot-up took over 10 minutes verse the normal 45 Seconds...what
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Striker
Try deleting everything in your C:\Windows\prefetch directory and see if
that helps. Sometimes it just gets too big.
that helps. Sometimes it just gets too big.
R
roger
Hi JavaJoe,
Have you checked that you don't have malware installed using Ad-aware
or Spybot?
See the following articles:
308041 Resources for Troubleshooting Startup Problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308041
310353 How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353
316434 HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434
310560 How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
The msconfig utility is especially useful, as it lets you disable any
programs that run automatically at start up. You could try disabling
all non- windows programs here and testing the boot velocity, then
enable them one or two at a time to find out which causes the slow
boot.
Hope this helps.
Have you checked that you don't have malware installed using Ad-aware
or Spybot?
See the following articles:
308041 Resources for Troubleshooting Startup Problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308041
310353 How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353
316434 HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434
310560 How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
The msconfig utility is especially useful, as it lets you disable any
programs that run automatically at start up. You could try disabling
all non- windows programs here and testing the boot velocity, then
enable them one or two at a time to find out which causes the slow
boot.
Hope this helps.