Slow Starting and Shutting down

hesmy

I have a laptop with XP Home and when starting,the backdrop comes on and the taskbar and four icons.There is then a pause of about three minutes,then the other icons appear.When shutting down,after pressing "turn off" at the bottom,it's about 90 seconds before the turn off button appears in the screen.When pressed,the screen is cleared straight away,but it takes over two minutes for it to shut down.I've done system restore twice,but no difference.All contributions gratefully received!

Figment

System Restore or Factory Reset?

NiftyDigits

Make and full model number together with RAM installed, if you please.

hesmy

Figment wrote: »

System Restore or Factory Reset?

Hi,system restore.Don't you lose data with factory reset?

hesmy

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Make and full model number together with RAM installed, if you please.

Hi,it's a Toshiba Equium m50-260 with 1 Gig Ram

Guardsman

http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_xp.html

NiftyDigits

Drop closed a msg. If he finds the time, he'll get it working optimally. Otherwise, it's a back up and a clean install/factory restore.

Kernel_Sanders

hesmy wrote: »

Don't you lose data with factory reset?

Well yes, but we're assuming you'd back up your data first
I'm also assuming that the 'backdrop' is your desktop....
BTW my own XP Home now takes a full two minutes for the choices to appear after clicking Turn Off PC, then a similar time (sometimes longer) to close down, but much less to standby. Factory Restore is way overdue for me!

GunJack

xp home, 2 mins to get the shutdown options??? Bloated, I say....

OP, run hijack This and post the log:-

http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/

Kernel_Sanders

Guardsman wrote: »

http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_xp.html

I followed the advice there, and I've been unchecking one item from the bottom each time I start up, with no joy yet. Today I noticed weird characters had appeared in two of them and I have no idea why....

HiMyNameIsLauren

Sounds like a hell of a lot, or a particular item working a lot in the background. CTRL + ALT + DEL and get to the taskbar - look at what's taking up any CPU/MEM usage before pressing the shut down system button. If you find something(s) taking up a lot of CPU, force a close before shutting down and see if it closes quicker. If you can do without these items, get rid or ensure not running in the background (particularly at statup).