Taking ages to load PC

aj9648

My computer (6 months old) is taking ages to load up.....it gets to the desktop stage and then churns away in the background for at last 5 minutes before I can load any applications.

Also its becoming slower and slower when I am multiple apps open and its a bit frustrating

I dont have norton but use AVG and have minimised what starts up in my tray but still problem persists - any ideas what I can do?

vescolove

You need to edit what opens on startup, use TuneUp Utilities (sp?) its really good for all diffrent performance tools, you will probs find u got loads of rubbish background files opening that u dnt need open...Also if you need more to run at the same time without slowing buy more ram

aliEnRIK

Possibly something nasty lurking
Download MALWAREBYTES
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
UPDATE and QUICK SCAN (For now)
If it finds anything, post the log here and delete the problems
We can take from there

Donnie

aj9648 wrote: »

My computer (6 months old) is taking ages to load up.....it gets to the desktop stage and then churns away in the background for at last 5 minutes before I can load any applications.

Also its becoming slower and slower when I am multiple apps open and its a bit frustrating

I dont have norton but use AVG and have minimised what starts up in my tray but still problem persists - any ideas what I can do?

On the keyboard, press the Flying Windows key together with the Pause Break key and report what is under System and Computer.

aj9648

Donnie - tried that but nothing happened......

Run malware tool now

Donnie

aj9648 wrote: »

Donnie - tried that but nothing happened......

Run malware tool now

Start > Control Panel > System

aj9648

ok under computer it says:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2

Under Computer it says

Intel(r) Pentium (R) M
Processor 1.70Ghz
209MHz 512MB RAM

Does that help?

Donnie

It's not a lot of RAM, but it is adequate.

How goes the AntiMalware scan?