Slow Desktop Load

[Guest]

First, system specs

P4 2.8 H
1.5GB DDR 433 Ram (dual channel 2x512, 2x256
2 120 GB SATA HD's in RAID 0 confi
MSI Geforce FX 5900 Ultr
on a Gigabyte 8KNXP boar

Ok, I did a clean install of Windows XP Pro Corporate with slipstreamed SP1. Then I installed all the latest drivers. Afterwards I installed NAV 8.0 Corp and Office 2003 Pro. (If questioning legitimacy of software, I'm a Drexel University student and we get all this software) I went on to install my normal basic software (trillian 2.0, winamp 5, etc). After all of this my computer seems to take forever to load the desktop. It will get past all the other stuff quickly, play the startup sound and all, but then sit on a screen just showing my desktop background. During this time the Ctrl-Alt-Del interrupt keys do not do anything. Eventually explorer loads and everything is fine. I have about 1.1 gb of free ram after boot, page file never sees any use

To troubleshoot I have done the following
Turned off NAV scanning of network drive
Turned off the page file (somehow having 1.5gb of ram allows me to do this now
Turned off system restore (actually I always leave that off
Turned off drive indexin
Ran defrag (said it didn't need it, but ran anyway
Ran Scandisk (no errors found
I never have anything load on startup, aside from NA

Another note is that sometimes, explorer.exe will cause an error and cause it to close and then reload. I'm still working on narrowing down that problem, but not sure if it could be related. What could I be missing?

 

[Rich Barry]

Ian, check here for virus, trojans and spyware. You can use these
sites.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://security.kolla.de/news.php?lang=en

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

First, system specs:

P4 2.8 HT
1.5GB DDR 433 Ram (dual channel 2x512, 2x256)
2 120 GB SATA HD's in RAID 0 config
MSI Geforce FX 5900 Ultra
on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board

Ok, I did a clean install of Windows XP Pro Corporate with slipstreamed

SP1. Then I installed all the latest drivers. Afterwards I installed NAV
8.0 Corp and Office 2003 Pro. (If questioning legitimacy of software, I'm a
Drexel University student and we get all this software) I went on to
install my normal basic software (trillian 2.0, winamp 5, etc). After all
of this my computer seems to take forever to load the desktop. It will get
past all the other stuff quickly, play the startup sound and all, but then
sit on a screen just showing my desktop background. During this time the
Ctrl-Alt-Del interrupt keys do not do anything. Eventually explorer loads
and everything is fine. I have about 1.1 gb of free ram after boot, page
file never sees any use.

To troubleshoot I have done the following:
Turned off NAV scanning of network drives
Turned off the page file (somehow having 1.5gb of ram allows me to do this now)
Turned off system restore (actually I always leave that off)
Turned off drive indexing
Ran defrag (said it didn't need it, but ran anyway)
Ran Scandisk (no errors found)
I never have anything load on startup, aside from NAV

Another note is that sometimes, explorer.exe will cause an error and cause

it to close and then reload. I'm still working on narrowing down that
problem, but not sure if it could be related. What could I be missing?

 

[Guest]

Ran Symantec AV Corp 8 with latest defs, found no viruses
Ran that trendmicro virus scan, which scanned fewer files than symantec and still found nothing
I run spybot regularly with latest updates and immunities, but ran it anyway and still found nothing but a few cookies

There are no viruses/trojans/spyware etc on my pc. I keep it very clean :-D.

The only error I can find in the event log is:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1002
Date: 1/14/2004
Time: 7:33:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: IAN
Description:
The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[Rich Barry]

Ian, take a look here

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Event+ID:+1002+error+in+WinXP

Ran Symantec AV Corp 8 with latest defs, found no viruses
Ran that trendmicro virus scan, which scanned fewer files than symantec and still found nothing
I run spybot regularly with latest updates and immunities, but ran it

anyway and still found nothing but a few cookies

There are no viruses/trojans/spyware etc on my pc. I keep it very clean :-D.

The only error I can find in the event log is:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1002
Date: 1/14/2004
Time: 7:33:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: IAN
Description:
The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[cable guy]

Click on START, then RUN, type MSCONFIG then ENTER. Then
click on STart up tab then uncheck any program files that
you don't need on startup. Apply the changes then restart
your PC.

-----Original Message-----
First, system specs:

P4 2.8 HT
1.5GB DDR 433 Ram (dual channel 2x512, 2x256)
2 120 GB SATA HD's in RAID 0 config
MSI Geforce FX 5900 Ultra
on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board

Ok, I did a clean install of Windows XP Pro Corporate

with slipstreamed SP1. Then I installed all the latest
drivers. Afterwards I installed NAV 8.0 Corp and Office
2003 Pro. (If questioning legitimacy of software, I'm a
Drexel University student and we get all this software) I
went on to install my normal basic software (trillian 2.0,
winamp 5, etc). After all of this my computer seems to
take forever to load the desktop. It will get past all
the other stuff quickly, play the startup sound and all,
but then sit on a screen just showing my desktop
background. During this time the Ctrl-Alt-Del interrupt
keys do not do anything. Eventually explorer loads and
everything is fine. I have about 1.1 gb of free ram after
boot, page file never sees any use.

To troubleshoot I have done the following:
Turned off NAV scanning of network drives
Turned off the page file (somehow having 1.5gb of ram allows me to do this now)
Turned off system restore (actually I always leave that off)
Turned off drive indexing
Ran defrag (said it didn't need it, but ran anyway)
Ran Scandisk (no errors found)
I never have anything load on startup, aside from NAV

Another note is that sometimes, explorer.exe will cause

an error and cause it to close and then reload. I'm still
working on narrowing down that problem, but not sure if it
could be related. What could I be missing?