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9300 taking a year to start

post #1 of 7
8/10/06 at 11:09pm
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So I don't know why but my lappy is now taking 2 years to start. I have ran hijack this and removed all unessecary startup items and when I turn my computer on it shows my wallpaper for about 30 seconds before it finally boots up. Only thing I did to the comptuer was take off my old expired norton and install AVG which I used to have on it and it worked fine. I have tried a system restore, well about 20 and it keeps saying my computer can't be restored. Any help guys?
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post #2 of 7
8/10/06 at 11:58pm
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I found that the file sptd.sys from damien tools slows it down. I got rid of that and it is still as slow. I need help.
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post #3 of 7
8/11/06 at 1:31am
umm, how many processes r u running
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post #4 of 7
8/11/06 at 3:05am
I had the same problem last week. No idea how it happened. Luckily, I had a recent Ghost image. After restoration, the boot time was back to normal.
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post #5 of 7
8/11/06 at 9:03am
short of performing a clean install, i would revisit the norton area again (services, registry), knowing norton, a normal app removal would do no good - it just suddenly becomes spyware - i guess it is norton's way of payback for removing their app
http://www.tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx = one of many good reads to improve xp performance

any specifc message of "cannot restore"?

cheers ...
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post #6 of 7
8/12/06 at 2:15pm
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No it is just saying that it can't be restored to that point. I only have 35 processed which is down from the 40's. Computer runs great once on, just slow on the boot up.
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post #7 of 7
8/15/06 at 6:49am
try turning off DEP if u haven't done so?
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips566.html

cheers ...
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