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Please tell us more about the system. What are your hardware specifications – CPU, RAM, Disk size, disk used or free.

Joe

Here’s what I see with Belarc. (Hope I’m doing this correctly.) 1.20 gigahertz Intel Celeron; 504 MB installed memory; 41 G disk with 29 G free. I use the computer for very basic browsing and email.

I recently added AdAware, with Ad Watch Live; used to have an old AdAware that wouldn’t update. AVG is running, not just doing on demand scans. Are these two in conflict?

Thanks again

Question for you, Doctor. This is the issue I’m desperately dealing with b/c of a slow start. In your list in blue letters, I know I can disable task scheduler (have heard it’s a big user), but are those other items some that can also be disabled in the services list? Thanks to all who help us beginner/intermediate types.

Thank you for the info about what some of those items are. I will follow the advice. Thank you to those in the lounge who are patient with some of us, those of us who are not at all technically oriented!

Bear with me, I’m no expert. This post is of interest b/c I have the slow boot problem – XP, all updates, use Firefox. The problem is fairly recent. I have disabled some things in startup, but what’s left is this – (I don’t know what they are, except tea timer) 53 apphk, WkUFind,, REGSHAVE, avgtray (AVG is installed), Tea Timer, ctfmon. Is there something here that would be causing a problem?

I should add that in the task bar during this delay, the spybot symbol takes a long time to appear, although I don’t think it’s part of startup?

I was about to install MSE after seeing it discussed in an older Windows Secrets newsletter. In the process, MS wanted to do the “Genuine Advantage” check which I have avoided because of the strong warnings from Susan Bradley (I believe it was her advice). Apparently there is no way to get around that? (I’m using Windows XP with Firefox, and only use IE when absolutely necessary.)

Thank you for the advice. I’ll keep that in mind from now on.