This may seem trivial, but I know with my clients at
work, the usualy problem is that cookies and temp files
need to be cleaned out. If you're online a lot, these
needs to be cleaned out at least once a week. You may
want to try a degrag or a disk cleanup. You can also go
to Start | Run | and type %tmp% This will show you a
list of things that you can manually delete that you
don't need on your computer (cookies in a sense). The
disk cleanup doesn't take care of this when you run it,
so don't expect it to.
You may also want to check your Internet Options and see
what kind of security setting you have. If it's
incredibly high, the computer may be scanning files to
make sure everything fits the security codes you have on
the computer. I've found that a security code
of "Medium" works nicely.
Good luck
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Slow start! For delays before the icons appear on the
Desktop use the Bootvis.exe tool -the download on the
link page which follows:
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastb oot/default.asp
Otherwise I would look in Event Viewer at the logged errors.
1. To open Event Viewer, click Start, click Control
Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, double-click
Event Viewer and select System for system errors or
Application for application errors. Look for Error in the
Type column and double click on Error to reveal a
Description of the error. This can be copied by using
Clipboard Viewer (see later).
2. Part of the Description of the error will include a
link, which you should double click for further
information and you can copy using copy and paste.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)
3. For some errors you will find "+ Related Knowledge
Base Article", which if double clicked takes you to the
Knowledge Base Article containing a suggested solution.
There always seems to be a step 2 but not always a step 3.
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports (Step 1). Run
Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to
copy. In the window which appears is a button resembling
two pages. Double click the button and close Event
Viewer. Now start your message ( email )and do a paste
into the body of the message. This will paste the info
from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after
exiting from Event Viewer. It can be helpful to place a
shortcut to Event Viewer on your Desktop.
Check your position regarding the following issue.
You May Experience Performance Issues After You Install
the 811493 (MS03-013) Package on Your Windows XP SP1-
Based Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;819634
The original 811493 has been replaced with a revised
version. On May 28, 2003, Microsoft released a revised
version of the 811493 security update for Windows XP SP1
to address this problem. Remove the old one and replace
with the new one. You can remove through Add / Remove
Programs -Start, Control Panel.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ and use it
to remove parasites.
