why oh why? i hate my pc. 10 points for most helpful person?

Question

last night my pc worked fine, this morning i turn it on and it gets stuck on winfast screen for 10 minutes before booting up. seems to be fine after this, until i restart, then it does same thing again. please some1 help.
running windows xp and i have a reasonalbly new motherboard and processor

Answer 1

May I suggest you visit, MICROSOFT LIVE "ONECARE" site, they do the lot, its free, and very thorough, they literally "fix" your computer. GOOD LUCK.

Answer 2

Well the easyest way is to make a system restore

Here is the way how to do the system restore:Before you open the System Restore console, you may want to save your work and close all programs since System Restore requires you to restart your computer.

There are two ways to access System Restore – through Help and Support or through your All Programs folder.

Through Help and Support:

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Click Start, and then click Help and Support.

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Under Pick a Task, click Undo changes to your computer with System Restore.

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Follow the instructions on the wizard.

Through the All Programs menu:

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Click Start.

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Point to All Programs.

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Point to Accessories.

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Point to System Tools.

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Click System Restore.

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Follow the instructions on the wizard.

Creating a restore point can be useful any time you anticipate making changes to your computer that are risky or might make your computer unstable. If something goes wrong, you select the restore point you just created and Windows XP undoes any system changes made since that time.

Create a Restore Point

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Open System Restore. (See step-by-step instructions above.)

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Click Create a restore point, and then click Next.

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In the Restore point description box, type a name to identify this restore point as seen in Figure 1 below. System Restore automatically adds the date and time that this Restore Point is created.
Create a restore point

Figure 1. Creating a restore point
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To finish creating this restore point, click Create.
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To cancel restore point creation and return to the Welcome to System Restore screen, click Back.
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To cancel restore point creation and exit the System Restore Wizard, click Cancel.

To view or to return to this restore point, from the Welcome to System Restore screen of the System Restore Wizard select Restore my computer to an earlier time. Then select the date you created the restore point from the calendar in the Select a Restore Point screen. All of the restore points you created and you computer created on the selected date are listed by name in the list box to the right of the calendar.

Note System Restore does not replace the process of uninstalling a program. To completely remove the files installed by a program, you must remove the program using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel or the program's own uninstall program. To open Add or Remove Programs, click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.

Answer 3

Have you recently installed (the new) IE7? If so, un-install it immediately as most Internet companies have advised that it is not yet ready for generalised usage and it is causing all sorts of problems. I had something similar to your problem which went away when I went back to Internet Explorer 6. Hope you sort it out 'cos I know how frustrating these things are. Good Luck

Answer 4

Download System Mechanic, you can get a free 30 day trial period, and it can sort out most things, I started using it about a week ago, and the amount of rubbish it has cleared and programs it has repaired are countless, a brilliant tool

Answer 5

Go to start>>run>>msconfig>>hit the start up tab and take out the check marks for any program you don't need to start windows. These are generally any program located in the "program files". Something is starting up and taking a long time to do it.

Answer 6

use
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0
scan pc in safe mode

lets get that out of ur pc ur some antivirus will miss key keylogger and trojans . frist of all you need to download avg antispyware this is verry good in getting all kinda bad files . then you need to download Adaware
a-squared< is verry good in picking up traking software files that is on the pc and it will find them . then download antispyware blocker that will find any type of virus . trojans files with antispyware blocker when you run that at the top of the box ur see
C:\ WINDOWS
remove the word windows and just leave in

C:\

then hit scan it will search all of the pc every file for virus or trojans and this will not have any problem with ur antivirus you have i have this my self .

then download spyware doctor that will search the pc for even more spyware adaware . just having 1 or 2 antispyware dont cut any ice at all you neeed what i said to download . when you have them run ur pc in safemode and scan the pc with then 1 at a time . this way from safemode the trojan and keylogger cant hide them self coz there is not internet access on in safe mode all the software i said to download will get the trojans and keylogger

if they say some are in the registry you watch what path there in and get in the registry and right hit on that folder and hit remove dont worry when the pc restart up win xp will creat a new clean folder for you

Answer 7

i would press F8 (right b4 it gets to that screen) and then go into safe mode and run system restore and reset it back to b4 you had that problem :)

Answer 8

Are you doing your maintenance?Defrag,delete temporary files,clean disk and then reboot.See if that helps.

Answer 9

sounds like it may be a conflict in your hardware maybe... have you installed any hardware the day before

Answer 10

http://support.microsoft.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D2057&spid=global&query=winfast&adv=&mode=r&cat=False
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810509/en-us
hope one of these will be of use good luck