Computer gets hung up for 2-3 minutes after booting?

Question

Computer boots up fine, after booting though it freezes up for 2-3 minutes, then goes back to working...did a virus scan, nothing showed up, hard drive was just replaced 2 months ago, running WinXP...any suggestions?

Answer 1

probably software issue. make sure you have only one antivirus program running, and make sure its a good one, not NAV. make sure you do not have like 30 programs running at start-up. make sure you have no automatic tasks set to run at computer startup (i.e. temp folders dump, antivirus scan, automatic updaters, music download tools). do you have a spyware removal tool? if so, make sure you run that bad boy! spyware is a major reason computers bog down and run slow.

Answer 2

Mine is a bit slow too although not 2 - 3 minutes. In my case it is because my anti virus does a quick scan, also I have quite a lot of programmes running in the background, for example Ashampoo uninstaller, winoptimiser suite, Registry repair, anti spam and anti hacker. Could be you have a similar problem or at least a similar cause.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I'm thinking it may be an Anti virus program scanning the programs loaded in memory at Start up.

Answer 5

I had a laptop that would do this..... for me, it was a network / network card issue.

For some reason it was trying to connect to a network and would freeze for a couple minutes until it timed out. Once it timed out it would work fine.

Disable your network adapter and try again....see if that helps.

Answer 6

Its probably your firewall/antivirus program itself. Its load time can be long. I used to have Norton and once I replaced it, load time was fast and had no 'freezing'.