Posted by MeAnthony on May 02, 2010 at 08:16:41 from (72.251.53.158):
The system is an HP a720n, Athlon 3200+, 1G ram, 180G EIDE hd.
The problem is that it is extremely slow on startup. The desktop comes up and the icons display, but the taskbar notification area and clock do not display. There it sits for 5 or 10 minutes for the taskbar area to load, or hangs completely. This morning it hung at that spot, gave an error message about Windows explorer but turned to a totally white screen before I could read it.
I have run AVG, MalwareBytes, Spybot, CCleaner, done disk cleanup and defrag with no improvement in performance. Going to try SuperAntiSpyware now, but expect no positive results.
My suspicion is that it's a Windows issue, not spyware or a virus, especially as it runs much faster in safe mode. I have disabled as many startup items as I can(I think, will see if there are more I can turn off).
Can anyone suggest any utility programs that I have not already run? I'd rather find out what's causing the problem than to simply format and reinstall.
Could it be a problem of my user profile becoming too large?
Sure wish I had pursued a career in IT when I got my associate's in networking; I'd have a better ability to fix this now. Unfortunately I wasn't ready for a sit-down type of job then.
But I digress...
Another issue I ran into while trying to fix this darn thing: I put a 500G SATA drive in the same box, installed Server 2003 Enterprise, that part works. But Server '03 doesn't see my 1.5 Tb WD USB hard drive that I backed up my XP drive on; says the drive is "either locked or formatted for a different file system". WD hard drive was originally set up on XP with NTFS. Why won't Server '03 read it?
As an aside: what's the hottest spot in IT today? I know I need some refresher courses; currently practicing for 220-701 and 220-702, so I'm getting there finally.
Thank you to all who reply, I appreciate your time, effort and opinions/suggestions.
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