why my PC taking 20 minutes to start up n reboot,whats wrong with my PC?

Answer 1

Spyware will slow it down.
Goto www.ewido.net and run the free scan to find and remove any spyware you may have.
Here is a list of other free ones.
Spybots search and Destroy http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10122137.html?tag=pao
adaware se> http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1
http://www.webroot.com/land/freescan.php
a-squared Free> http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
X -Cleaner Micro Edition scan http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spywareguard too.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

Answer 2

Couple of things, probably spyware, but also could be:

A bad hard disk sector.
Your CPU FAN can may have crapped out, and the CPU is overheated, running in a low power safety mode "turtle mode".
Someone stole your memory chips.
A piece of hardware has failed, or is loose in its socket, making it difficult for the hardware to communicate, slowing things down.

Check all, but most likely is spyware.

First check your cpu fan is operating properly.
Next check you memory is as expected when you reboot. Upon rebooting, the memory will be checked and displayed on screen.
Power off, remove and reinsert the system ram sticks.
remove and reinsert the hard drive cables at both ends.
Restart in safe mode, and run scandisk.
Start, Accessories, Command prompt, Scandisk

But before you spend that time, remove the spyware, as listed below, do that first.


If you are running XP, press control alt delete at the same time.
choose task manager
see the running tasks,
click Processes, this is what is using your cpu time.
But your computer is infected with spyware, all computers are, and it gets pretty bad if you dont remove it.

First fix your security and memory settings:
This is the most common setup problem affecting speed.
Open Internet Explorer.
On the top menu,
Tools, Internet Options, Delete Cookies, OK
and again
Tools, Internet Options, Delete Files, check the box to delete all offline content, then click OK.
( it sounds bad, but is really just deleting your cached junk files).
Tools, Internet Options, Settings,
Be sure to adjust your disk space slider bar, to less than 35MB. This is usually set to some astronomically high number. Each time you visit a web site, the PC searches your cache for the last time the page was accessed, if the cache is very large, this takes a long time, slowing down web browsing.
Tools, Internet Options, Security.
Click the world INTERNET, the slider should say Medium, if it set to low, an application has modified this to open your pc to attack. On the right, click DEFAULT to reset it to medium.
Tools, Internet Options, Security, click LOCAL, then select DEFAULT.
Tools, Internet Options, Security. click Trusted Sites.
you probably should not have any listed here. You may have added your bank or microsoft or something, but generally no web sites should be listed here, if you find any write them down and remove them.
Tools, Internet Options, Security, Restricted Sites
This should be filled with sites that should be blocked. If it is not, we will fix this with the program immunization procedure described below.
Be sure the slider for this is set to high, again click the default button, to prevent these sites from exploiting your internet connection, even if it has no entries at this time.

Best bet to improve performance, is to remove spyware.
Download Spybot search and destroy 1.4, and Adaware 1.06
They are both free, and excellent programs at removing keystroke loggers, cookie trackers, viruses, and other spyware.
Install them, and then perform an update for each to get the latest dat files.
Then restart your computer in safe mode, and scan your computer. Things run faster in safe mode, and the programs can remove active spyware better if it is not running.
If spybot finds anything, " Oh,and it will", remove it, and dont look back.
When Spybot starts, after you search and download updates, press the Immunize button on the left. You have to also press the Immunize button at the top, a green Plus symbol, to complete the operation.
Then scan your PC.

When this is done, you can DEFRAG your hard drive if you have the time. Defrag generally wont run very well unless you are in safe mode. You can get to safe mode by pressing F8 key as windows is rebooting. Defrag takes time, so start it, and take a break.

Another thing:
Look in your start up group.
on your start button on the lower left...
START, RUN,
then type msconfig
the System Configuration Utility will start.
These programs start when Windows loads.
You can uncheck them if you know what they are.
You can probably uncheck almost all that you see, and your computer will still function, but dont uncheck anything that says microsoft, or looks like your antivirus.

When you get things working smoothly, make a system restore point. Or in win98 you can make a registry backup.
XP Start, Accessories, System tools, System restore,
then check the option, Create System Restore Point, give it a name, and follow the prompts. If something goes wrong, you can restore these settings. Actually Xp makes many restore points, so you can generally go back without doing this too often.
But Win98 doesnt do as well.
On Win98.
Go to a command prompt ( DOS prompt)
Scanreg
It will say something like no problems detected, would you like to backup your registry today, say yes. thats it.

If you have norton or Mcafee, these are hosing your PC, I hate them. Uninstall these pieces of crap, and install AVG link below.
It rocks, wont slow or cripple your PC, and is FREE. Excellent.


If you have broadband ( DSL or cable), the best security measure you can take it to be sure you have a router inbetween your DSL/Cable Modem and your PC.
The router presents your PC to the internet as one port, instead of thousands, and blocks you PC from sending out identification listing you as "victim here", try to hack this.
It is like hiding your house behind a cloak, so the burgler can see your house to know to try to break in.

Routers are cheap, well worth the effort. Get a D-Link or NetGear..

Answer 3

attempt defragmenting your pc. this is elementary and you will locate the training interior the upload-ons application. additionally, be certain to place in spyware from a good company which contain Webroot. Their internet site provide you with elementary to persist with guidelines. i'm hoping you have sturdy virus protection put in. if your pc is starting to be old, do not placed money into upgrading it using fact it is seldom completely valuable. only get a sparkling one.

Answer 4

You could have too many services running in the backend. Download Windows Defender and run it to see if you have any Spyware on your computer. Once you are done click on Tools\Software Explorer and remove unneeded startup programs.

Answer 5

You been looking at the porn again its spyware or a virus or a trojan...who knows i would have to look at you PC but seriously read up on getting security software......

Answer 6

defrag it if u can if u dont know how to defrag a computer
as some 1 who will no
and im not kidding defraging works i just dont wana explain how 2 do it so ask some 1 who knows how 2 defrag a computer

Answer 7

Could be your Anti-Virus program.

Norton Antivirus did this to my computer.

Actually it took about 20 minutes to turn ON, but anyway...

Answer 8

Either your processor has become slow, or you have a virus that has made it slow. Other than that, you must have a lot of files on ur pc... It needs attention....

Answer 9

you probably have too many things loading on startup. hit your start button and go to run and type msconfig. on the startup tab it shows you everything that loads when windows starts. do NOT uncheck anything that you're not sure of. some of those things on that list are necessary.

Answer 10

One thing it might be very old or check the number of programs that get started at start up. you might have to stop some of these to not start up.