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Up until two days ago my computer booted up flawlessly ... under 40 seconds ... including all icons in the taskbar (AntiVirus, Firewall and a few others) and my wireless connection to my router ...
However, without installing any additional software ..... my computer suddenly and unexplainedly started to boot up slowly ...
Everything else is fine and works quickly until my Virus scanner, then Firewall, and then my Wireless connection are supposed to appear in the taskbar .... They usually appeared in this order before ...
Now, everything else appears .... then I wait for about 15 secs for my AntiVirus to appear, another 20 or so for my wireless connection to initialize and then about 5 more for my firewall to start up.
Sometimes it takes up to 45 secs for the three to load up after everything else has finished ..
I'm using the exact same software I used before ... no resource hoggers ... they all used to work perfectly .. I'm at a loss at what might have changed ... Could I have unknowingly changed some settings that have affected wireless initialization .. What settings may affect this
I tried defragging the hard drive, ran two different Virus scans, ran Adaware and Spybot, and a Registry Cleaner ... I'm at my wits end ..
Any help? And how can I find out which of the three is actually slowing down the process ... It might be that one is affecting the others ... Any logs to consult? I believe that there may be a network delay
I'm not using 802.1x authentication or WPA .... Just WEP like before the problem bega
....
However, without installing any additional software ..... my computer suddenly and unexplainedly started to boot up slowly ...
Everything else is fine and works quickly until my Virus scanner, then Firewall, and then my Wireless connection are supposed to appear in the taskbar .... They usually appeared in this order before ...
Now, everything else appears .... then I wait for about 15 secs for my AntiVirus to appear, another 20 or so for my wireless connection to initialize and then about 5 more for my firewall to start up.
Sometimes it takes up to 45 secs for the three to load up after everything else has finished ..
I'm using the exact same software I used before ... no resource hoggers ... they all used to work perfectly .. I'm at a loss at what might have changed ... Could I have unknowingly changed some settings that have affected wireless initialization .. What settings may affect this
I tried defragging the hard drive, ran two different Virus scans, ran Adaware and Spybot, and a Registry Cleaner ... I'm at my wits end ..
Any help? And how can I find out which of the three is actually slowing down the process ... It might be that one is affecting the others ... Any logs to consult? I believe that there may be a network delay
I'm not using 802.1x authentication or WPA .... Just WEP like before the problem bega
....