Slow XP Home Media Center and odd things during bootup

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CrustyOldGeezer

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It's a Gateway Laptop ver.68.04
AMD K8 1.6meg CPU
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M Series 64mb
80 Gig HD
MS Media Center SP2.0

Direct connect to cable modem.

It takes 7-8 minutes to accept any keystrokes.

task manager shows a lot of processes during startup that disappear soon after it starts accepting keystrokes.

One of which is regedit.

After loading FireFox, the screen flashes a few time, and small windows flash open then close immediately.

Too fast to read.

I have been running just about every utility program that I thought may help.

The Geek Squad set it up when we first bought it last year, and it has been slow ever since. I asked them to not put on all the advertising garbage like the "bestbuy best deals, AOL, Superfix, etc. They did anyway.

Here's my log files.

Please let me know what to do short of tossing it into the river.

Thanks,

Drew
 
One of the reasons why your system is so slow, is because you`re running more than one antivirus programme.

Run this Symantic/Norton removal Tool.

Then, install one of these free Firewall programmes.

Zonealarm Kerio or Comodo free firewall programmes.

Then, follow the instructions HERE and post all the requested logfiles.

Regards Howard :)

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extremely slow.

Even changing the font or cell size in excel takes an incredible amount of time.

It still takes 5-6 minutes to boot to a point where it accepts keyboard/mouse input.

Is there ever a legitimate reason for windows media player or windows explorer to access the internet?

Windows explorer tries numerous time through svchost.eve, and media player does it repeatedly.

Do I need to "allow" or "deny" in the firewall?

Thanks again,

Drew
 
Well, does recently extend back 3 weeks?

I checked and defragged (with norton speeddisk), but not since.

As soon as the daily AV scan is done I'll do it again though.

It can't hurt too much... :)

There is only 13 gig used with 64 gig free.

No errors.
 
howard_hopkinso said:
Your log files are clean.

How`s your system running?

Regards Howard :)

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2 minutes from power on to website on the screen.

AWESOME!!!

Thanks.

I did do a few things on my own that I may pay for later, but so far no problems.

I went into services and disabled the TV tuner stuff, and a few more items that I still don't think I'm ever gonna use.

Life is GOOD.

Have a really good day.

Drew
 
Howard, I'm back on my desktop now.

Thanks to you and others, Mamas laptop is up and running very nicely.

She kicked me off "her" computer and made me fix my own toy... :)

Thanks for everything.

Drew
 
No problem mate and thanks for taking the time to let us know.

If you have any further virus/spyware problems, please post in this thread.

Regards Howard :)

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