I'm Back in ma country cuz its my holidays, and this PC Loads's (starts, after the booting (where u see a load bar just before the windows xp loading screen) extremely slow.
It take's like 20-25 mins to start, but after that (when the log in screen come's) its normal.

Im Running Win XP (pro)on survice pack 2
this is a Pentium 2.4 GHZ processer with 512MB and i really cant figure out why its so slow.

Sorry abt the garbage explaination, but its not the best internet here (i have to run now, and i can only come back like after a day or sooner)

Well, once started windows, Take a look at Run > "msconfig". You should play around with the tab "start". Anyway, it looks like the problem is before windows (explorer) is started, so I'd suggest you to enable the diagnostic mode, to see if this still happens. If this works, user the "selective start" testing all combinations among the options.
When you find the file causing the error you may want to post it here with the content for more help (in the casoe you didn't find out by yourself what caused that monster delay)

I'd probably agree with KeyStorm...some program is MAJORLY slowing it down...I would also suggest scanning your computer for viruses/spyware/adaware, and updating everything for any PCI/AGP devices you may have, as well as virusscan and chipset/board.

Thanks for the replaies, and i tried everythin key said, and its slow as hell with nothin selected ....

I highly suspect its a virus so im goin to do a full system scan now...

* Varish goes out with 5 bucks to get an AV software.

again, thanks for the replies

Did you try to defrag from DOS? (if you have DOS)

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Originally posted by Guillaume
Did you try to defrag from DOS? (if you have DOS)

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However, what can be causing this is a defrag routine, defragmenting the HD before Windows is started up...

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you should do a backup.  and do a fresh installment... only solution man...  it will just get filled up with more information and boot even longer.

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However, what can be causing this is a defrag routine, defragmenting the HD before Windows is started up...

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* Guillaume wonders what could trigger that...

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Hmmm......I'll look into it, and right now, im tring to find a way to back-up my HD , and if i do find a way to put the 80GB of Data on this PC, i'll do a fresh install right away.

Edit: I just defreged the comp and it's perfect now! now i wonder if it's gonna happen again and what caused it!

As I said, probably a background defragmentation process. Since you have defragmented the HD yourself now there is no need for Windows (or your defrag program) to do it in the background before Windows completely boots up.

If it wasn't a background defragmentation process, then it surely means that your HD was seriously fragmented* and I would be surprised if you didn't lost files or that files were damaged (without you knowing it).


* 20mins to find the necessarily files to boot up is extremely and unhealthy long. I never experienced such a long delay to find some files, even not on my old, very slow PC's with FAT32 or even FAT16.