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Carol
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Hello...
My XP has started doing something that confuses me & I don't know how to fix it, so thought someone here might have some ideas...
Here goes...*G*....I've been runnin this OS for 'bout 6 mos. with no probs - runs just great, in fact....But, as of about a week ago the boot time has changed drastically - like from about 30 seconds to around 5 mins now...like, one day normal, next day way SLOW.....I don't get it...grrrrrrr!
First....Right after the black screen with the 'loading' bar, a msg pops up tellin me that my password is about to expire, tho I don't even have one entered..(TweakUI 'fixed' it to logon without, or so I thought).....Tho a minor annoyance, I'd rather not have to bother with a pass...
Aside from the password business the main issue is the slowness of the whole boot process....after the first logon screen (XP black one) it'll sit at a 'Windows Is Starting' screen (haven't seen this one before now) forever....Then on to the 'Loading Settings ??' screen and on into Windows.....
Tho I'm not totally knowledgeable of XP, yet, I looked in the Event/Error log (don't really know what I'm looking for, tho *G*) but don't see anything majorly wrong with the exception of a few 'Application Hang' errors....
Soooo, what to do to fix this??...Oh and for the record, I'm way unfamiliar with registry dealings...
Any help will be greatly appreciated & thanks!!......Carol
My XP has started doing something that confuses me & I don't know how to fix it, so thought someone here might have some ideas...
Here goes...*G*....I've been runnin this OS for 'bout 6 mos. with no probs - runs just great, in fact....But, as of about a week ago the boot time has changed drastically - like from about 30 seconds to around 5 mins now...like, one day normal, next day way SLOW.....I don't get it...grrrrrrr!
First....Right after the black screen with the 'loading' bar, a msg pops up tellin me that my password is about to expire, tho I don't even have one entered..(TweakUI 'fixed' it to logon without, or so I thought).....Tho a minor annoyance, I'd rather not have to bother with a pass...
Aside from the password business the main issue is the slowness of the whole boot process....after the first logon screen (XP black one) it'll sit at a 'Windows Is Starting' screen (haven't seen this one before now) forever....Then on to the 'Loading Settings ??' screen and on into Windows.....
Tho I'm not totally knowledgeable of XP, yet, I looked in the Event/Error log (don't really know what I'm looking for, tho *G*) but don't see anything majorly wrong with the exception of a few 'Application Hang' errors....
Soooo, what to do to fix this??...Oh and for the record, I'm way unfamiliar with registry dealings...
Any help will be greatly appreciated & thanks!!......Carol