Slow Start up

Reluctant_spender

What anti virus product are you using - there are a number of free ones available IF you do not currently have one installed.

I recommend Avira - http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

Install, update and run that first.

Trillionaire

anti virus / spyware = ZoneAlarm

Reluctant_spender

You have the paid for product then do you. I only ask as I can only see the service for the firewall running.

Trillionaire

Yes I have paid for ZoneAlarm. Im not sure about what you see/don't see as this is out of the area of my expertise (being a mum)

Is anyone going to comment on what I've posted?

HELP!

aliEnRIK

Someone posted a few hours ago that a zonealarm update messed their computer up. Would you say that could have happened to you?

They uninstalled and reinstalled it to get it working again

Trillionaire

Thanks Ali - I'll have a look and see if I can find that post.

I take it that no one can find anything wrong with what I've posted from Hijack?

aliEnRIK

I cant
Apart from maybe this ~
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asininity

Theres nothing wrong except whats been mentioned however you could stop a few things starting up when the computer boots up which will speed up boot time. Theres a few resource hog in there.

You could also try a defrag of the hard drive, cleaning it up a bit, running a registry scan, and defraging the registry.

How full is the hard drive and how old is the computer?

PeterPerfect

Things to check
- Event viewer logs to see if any process fails. Programs should have their own timeout period after failing to do a particular action. This usually looks like a hang.
- Are you connected to a network? If so, do you try to access a resource that is on a remote system. This will cause a hang and similar effect as above. If no network available.
- Some software is trying to do an update for example a virus detector maybe looking for an updated file over the net.

Trillionaire

Thanks everyone for your help.

I uninstalled Zonealarm - then re-installed it, and this seems to have done the trick:beer: