Sorry everyone, also when it's at that screen where its shows my name "LJ" and tells me to type my password, when the XP music comes on it cuts off half-way through now?
Hey everyone, first let me say I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere on the board but I have used the 'search' option, so sorry if I skipped it!
Gateway; Windows XP SP1 (just loaded SP2 cause an automatic update, but problem started before); 2.2 GHz; 256MB RAM; Celeron processor
I defragged my HD the other day and now when Windows starts, my desktop background comes up, then it takes forever for the icons and taskbar to show up, it even seems to go faster if I hit ctrl+alt+del and then click the "x" on that window, then all the icons and whatnot start popping up. Also everything else on the system seems to be running a bit more sluggish also, but the whole startup thing is kind of creeping me out. I run Ad-Aware weekly, and just downloaded AntiVirus I'm running that now, as I'm typing on my notebook.
Is there any other steps I could take besides what I'm going to do in a few minutes which are...
1. defrag again
2. disk cleanup
I've ran adaware and am running norton antivirus now
PLEASE HELP ME OUT PEOPLE, OR IF THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED OR THERE IS A GOOD LIST OF WAYS TO SPEED MY SLUGGISH COMPUTER POST A LINK TO THE THREAD
THANKS LJ

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