Incredibly slow everything...

[an3mia]

specs: AMD athlon 2500xp, Geforce 4 4200 ti 128mb, 512 mb DDR corsair w/ platinum heatsink, Maxtor 54098H8 40GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive, and a nforce 2 ultra 400 mobo. My windows XP is extremely slow on startup and I have only essential programs on startup. Opening folders, playing music, or anything is extremely slow, but once it loads once everything is ok.. I have no idea what is wrong. if it is my hard drive or what.. please any advice would be nice.

 

[SNGX1275]

Is this something that just recently happened? If so think back to what you last installed before this thing happened, if it just recently happened you can try to do a system restore. Have you added any new hardware or anything?

 

[an3mia]

no the computer.. is new

 

[conradguerrero]

how long does XP take to load and what programs startup automatically?

 

[an3mia]

It takes about 10 minutes. and only rundll32,nwiz, and sstray start up. The entire computer is slow not just start up

 

[Nic]

Check your bios settings, maybe your processor cache is disabled. Try setting 'optimized defaults' for starters.