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My colleague is running a Dell Dimension 8300, P4 3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, XP
Home.
In the last couple of days it has been very problematic booting up, often
taking 10-15 minutes to get to the Windows logon screen. It displays the
Dell logo when it first boots, then goes to a black screen with a single
cursor in the upper left corner and hangs there for ages before showing the
normal XP loading screen and getting on with the start-up. Once it's up and
running, it behaves fine.
I've virus-scanned with AVG, checked for spyware & adware (Lavasoft &
Spyware S&D), run through the start-up folder with msconfig and found
nothing particularly out of the ordinary, although my feeling is that this
issue occurs before Windows loads, so I wouldn't have expected to see much.
And on the same basis, I'm loathe to use System Restore, although it's there
as an option. No new applications have been installed for some weeks, and
this has only been an issue for a few days.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what my next steps should be?
Many thanks.
My colleague is running a Dell Dimension 8300, P4 3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, XP
Home.
In the last couple of days it has been very problematic booting up, often
taking 10-15 minutes to get to the Windows logon screen. It displays the
Dell logo when it first boots, then goes to a black screen with a single
cursor in the upper left corner and hangs there for ages before showing the
normal XP loading screen and getting on with the start-up. Once it's up and
running, it behaves fine.
I've virus-scanned with AVG, checked for spyware & adware (Lavasoft &
Spyware S&D), run through the start-up folder with msconfig and found
nothing particularly out of the ordinary, although my feeling is that this
issue occurs before Windows loads, so I wouldn't have expected to see much.
And on the same basis, I'm loathe to use System Restore, although it's there
as an option. No new applications have been installed for some weeks, and
this has only been an issue for a few days.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what my next steps should be?
Many thanks.