Why does it take so long to load my computer? 15 minutes.?

Question

That does not include turning on my high speed internet.

Is there a program that will speed up log on?

I have 8 items on my startup menu. I tried deleting them, but they still get relosded

Answer 1

You probably have a windows based system and should get a mac, or try trashing a few programs and reinstalling them. I think norton utilities,firewall and a few of them type programs need to be uninstalled and reinstalled sometmes to get rid of that prob.. I know firewall for sure

Answer 2

You are probably infected with spyware. You can buy a professional program like Webroot Spysweeper or PC Tools Spyware doctor (about $30 USD) that will clean up your computer.

You can try running a free scan like at trend micro here

http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/

or downloading Adaware SE Personal Edition

see http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1

and spybot search and destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org

Microsoft also has a free anti-spyware tool for Windows 2000 or later called Windows Defender (but you need a legal copy to use it)

See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displaylang=en

but they aren't as good as buying a commercial product or taking it to a local tech to clean it off.

Answer 3

heres some ideas could just be a slow computer maybe you need more ram or have spyware, windows xp loads network stuff last , a slow computer running win xp will be slow or start up i have a 2.2 amd with 2 gig of ram windows xp starts up in like 2mins most, my father has an older hp computer with windows 2000 on it and it takes like 15mins for it to fully load up, it would have had what os your using and what kinda of computer newer or older it might be easy'er to tell you what to do .. good luck

Answer 4

thids site walks you thru cleaning up your pc so it will run better including getting rid ogf the little nasties that run on startup
http://bartman1.blogspot.com/

Answer 5

maybe there some spyware in your computer, try to kill them and restart your pc and see how long time taked.