i tried everything,my PC still taking 20 minutes to start up or reboot?

Question

PC Fujitsu 10 months old,intel pentium 4
no sound card , no graghics

problem only started 3 weeks ago,b4 tat, no such problem at all

windows xp home edition original



i tried anti virus anti spyware following answers to my questions

anti virus say got some virus, prompt me to heal the virus , i did

so far, only popp up advertisements r gone


but PC running slowly, n heavily, like a tortise

problem only started 3 weeks ago, b4 tat no such problem at all

Answer 1

have you ever done a defrag on your computer sometimes its the regular maintenance things that get over looked and cause all kinds of wierd problems.
it could also be your IDE cables how old is the machine
i just had a client pc that i couldnt figure out why the heck it was so slow booting up and operating once it did boot. finally just to see if anything would happen i changed out the cables and sure enough it was like brand new.
there are other things you can try to like using the OS cd and entering the recovery console you can run a chkdsk /f /r
or you can do a windows repair
good luck

Answer 2

1) you haven't tried everything... or
2) you have hardware problems

If you have hardware problems that causes a slow boot - chances are you have hardware problems that cause the entire system to be slow.

Without knowing what your operating system is I couldn't begin to tell you how to start looking into it - feel free to provide us with more information, along with ideas you've already tried and we can try to help you get started in the right direction.

Answer 3

delete cookies and old files & offline content cia tools / internet options in micosoft explorer.

run lavasoft's adaware (free)

run AVG ant virus (free)

Answer 4

Start it in safe mode and run a good antivirus-adware-spyware program.