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Robin Humphrey

I am working on an XP Home machine with 5 accounts all
seem to take an age to load. One in particular takes
longer than all the rest and spends ages stuck on just
the 'wallpaper'. I can't find any viruses and I have run
adaware to remove any spyware (there was hardly any),
neither makes any difference. I have also tried various
changes to the TCP/IP networking settings, again with no
success. I did try a system restore which solved the
problem initially and then it just reverted back to its
old ways. Can anybody come up with a few more suggestions
of things I could try. Many Thanks.
 
Robin said:
I am working on an XP Home machine with 5 accounts all
seem to take an age to load. One in particular takes
longer than all the rest and spends ages stuck on just
the 'wallpaper'. I can't find any viruses and I have run
adaware to remove any spyware (there was hardly any),
neither makes any difference. I have also tried various
changes to the TCP/IP networking settings, again with no
success. I did try a system restore which solved the
problem initially and then it just reverted back to its
old ways. Can anybody come up with a few more suggestions
of things I could try. Many Thanks.
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If you create a new user and then try to logon as them - is it faster?
 
Did you disk cleanup and defrag? Clear out some old
stuff,temp files,check starup list. Also would not hurt
to upgrade memory if less than 512mb....Good luck.
 
Robin said:
I am working on an XP Home machine with 5 accounts all
seem to take an age to load. One in particular takes
longer than all the rest and spends ages stuck on just
the 'wallpaper'. I can't find any viruses and I have run
adaware to remove any spyware (there was hardly any),
neither makes any difference. I have also tried various
changes to the TCP/IP networking settings, again with no
success. I did try a system restore which solved the
problem initially and then it just reverted back to its
old ways. Can anybody come up with a few more suggestions
of things I could try. Many Thanks.
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In addition to the other good advice, you can run msconfig.exe and
uncheck some of the startup programs listed in the Startup tab. If you
uncheck one and it doesn't help, check it and uncheck another.
 
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In addition to the other good advice, you can run msconfig.exe and
uncheck some of the startup programs listed in the Startup tab. If you
uncheck one and it doesn't help, check it and uncheck another.
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I tried this - unchecked them all - but it made no
difference to the problem. Any idea what xp actually does
while it is "loading personal settings"?

Many Thanks
Robin
 
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