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Not sure which group to post to, so I've chosen two!
I've been having some problems with XP Pro with long bootups, ever since
I installed some update from the Windows site a while back. It seems to
be to do with Outlook Express which got its knickers in a twist
afterwards. The date column would only display the date in reverse
format (yyyy/mm/dd) and I could not change it. And I'd send emails and
posts and find they were not being saved in the 'sent' folder despite it
being set to do so.
Things got slower and slower on bootup, with it taking up to three
minutes to get to a point when I could click on an icon and use a
program. Although the desktop would appear soon enough, an hourglass
kept revolving for ages and I could do nothing. There would be three or
four attempts to access the A: drive, things would grind away with the
desktop refreshing periodically and eventually enough steam would be
generated for the thing to work.
There was nothing in the startup group, and I use Startup Control Panel
to get rid of everything else. Nothing should have got in the way.
Also, if I clicked on My Computer, the little torch would very often
blink away for quite a while as the machine ground away looking for
itself.
Nor could I get my little home network or ICS to work again. (Two
machines, X-over cable)
I did numerous virus checks, but nothing was ever found.
Eventually, I got exasperated, backed everything up and did a full
re-install of Windows, and although things a a bit better, it still
looks for the A drive, despite it being disabled in the bios, and it can
still take a while for things to come up.
And I still can't get the network going. I keep getting a 169 IP
address instead of a 192.168.0.1. When I force it to that IP manually
it will stay there for a while, but if I run the network connections
applet it goes back to a 169 addy.
I ran a prog called Winaudit and it tells me that DHCP is not turned on
on this PC, the host. How can I force DHCP on?
TIA for any advice.
I've been having some problems with XP Pro with long bootups, ever since
I installed some update from the Windows site a while back. It seems to
be to do with Outlook Express which got its knickers in a twist
afterwards. The date column would only display the date in reverse
format (yyyy/mm/dd) and I could not change it. And I'd send emails and
posts and find they were not being saved in the 'sent' folder despite it
being set to do so.
Things got slower and slower on bootup, with it taking up to three
minutes to get to a point when I could click on an icon and use a
program. Although the desktop would appear soon enough, an hourglass
kept revolving for ages and I could do nothing. There would be three or
four attempts to access the A: drive, things would grind away with the
desktop refreshing periodically and eventually enough steam would be
generated for the thing to work.
There was nothing in the startup group, and I use Startup Control Panel
to get rid of everything else. Nothing should have got in the way.
Also, if I clicked on My Computer, the little torch would very often
blink away for quite a while as the machine ground away looking for
itself.
Nor could I get my little home network or ICS to work again. (Two
machines, X-over cable)
I did numerous virus checks, but nothing was ever found.
Eventually, I got exasperated, backed everything up and did a full
re-install of Windows, and although things a a bit better, it still
looks for the A drive, despite it being disabled in the bios, and it can
still take a while for things to come up.
And I still can't get the network going. I keep getting a 169 IP
address instead of a 192.168.0.1. When I force it to that IP manually
it will stay there for a while, but if I run the network connections
applet it goes back to a 169 addy.
I ran a prog called Winaudit and it tells me that DHCP is not turned on
on this PC, the host. How can I force DHCP on?
TIA for any advice.