Slow Start up

[B_Flatblues]

this just started about a week ago. when ever i reboot for what ever reason my machine takes for ever to restart. i just dumped all of my music onto a external hard drive and have plenty of hard drive space.

i am running XP and when it restarts a jpeg from my pics comes up and sits there some times for 20 min.

these are the items in my start up list does anyone know witch of these must stay?
• StartEAK
• Colorreal
• Wkdetect
• Srmclean
• Navapw32
• Hpztsbo4
• SVAPLAYER
• Realplayer
• Cfo
• Tgcmd
• Browse~
• Combobutton
• Mxoaldr
• Cmesys
• XTCfgloader
• Msmsgr
• Weather
• Ctfmon
• Gstartup
• Macdomaker
• Msoffice
• Wnw
• World web

im not sure what to do is it the machine or ????????

any suggestion would be great


Rob W

[XL-Dennis]

Hi Rob,

Sound like You need to clean the computer from Tmp-files :-)

1. Open the explorer.,
2. Search for files with the suffix *.tmp, *.temp and *.chk
3. Delete them all.

There are software-tools available but I believe that above will be sufficient.

Warm regards,
Dennis

[Anne Troy]

Rob, we've got all the steps in detail at www.theofficeexperts.com/cleanyourpc.htm

Then, there's a bunch of sites like this one (which I must have liked a little better at tht time 'cause I saved it in my favorites), and they tell you what all (or most) the programs are:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

I personally don't run the realplayers and such; and if you don't have to have the weather all the time, why have it there.

Don't know where you got your list from, but you can hit Start-Run and type msconfig and hit enter. Go to the Startup tab and make sure nothing is checked TWICE. Inevitably, somebody's got things checked twice.

[B_Flatblues]

Thx Dreamboat

yes Dennis reply Reminded me of your Clean your P C Page. Just finished and seems to have done the trick. however there was one task that i could not preform.

Step 3: Delete temporary Internet files.

"Click on the Delete files button. Do NOT click the checkbox for “delete all off-line content”. Hit Ok."

when i tryed this it locked up on me and got the old not responding.

yes i have deleted real player and couple of others that I recognized and have no use for.

I will check out your link



Thx again

Rob W