I have a new laptop that I bought two weeks ago, and its been fine until one day I started it up and the login screen had changed from the default Windows XP home login screen, to the professional version (example here: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/img/gif_wxp/wxplgn09.gif), its also incredibly slow to load after I type in my login details, and takes about one minute to load, from its old 20 seconds. I have defragmented it several times and this has done nothing. Any ideas?
2007-02-05 02:34:16 · 6 answers · asked by zopah76 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Edit: Link was incorrect: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/img/gif_wxp/wxplgn09.gif
2007-02-05 02:34:55 · update #1
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2007-02-05 02:42:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks as though your machine is logging into a domain rather than a workgroup. Is this machine part of a network? If so, that is why it takes longer than to boot as a stand-alone PC. First off, this could only happen if you do indeed have XP Pro, not XP Home. The home verison will not support domain connection. Boot the pc and log in, then go into the control panel, and open "User Accounts". Under "Pick a Task", select "Change the way a user logs on or off". On the following window, place a check mark in "use the welcome screen", and "use fast user switching". This should set the PC back to the more familiar login screen.
Good Luck!
2007-02-05 02:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by gliderguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some way to make your PC faster:
You need to update your antivirus, your problem may caused by virus.
Disable some start up programs
Start Menu -> Run -> then type msconfig, i suggest you disable ALL of them, it wont cause a problem
Defrag your disk
Start Menu -> Accesories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter
Keep free space on your HD, each HD may have free space approx. 15%
Clean your registry, registry contains files created by software to comunnicate with windows or other software. I suggest Tune Up Utillities and CCleaner ( CCleaner.com its freeware! ). Unused registry will slown down your PC.
Use windows clasicc themes
Right click on desktop -> Properties -> choose windows clasicc for appearance ( It 10 mega less memory consum than XP appearance, 3 mega more if you disable the desktop background ). Dont use ANYTHING to enrich your PC visual ( themes, cursor, screensaver, docker, etc) it needs a lot of RAM.
2007-02-05 02:39:07 · answer #3 · answered by maxiangelo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what have you loaded unto the computer in the last few weeks?
go into registry and remove stuff from the startup and then remove the stuff from the startup folder, run adware and spybot, have you loaded any antivirus software could be that it's check real time that will also slow things down.
2007-02-05 02:45:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try download toni arts easycleaner to clean registry, and delete unneccessary files.
In winxp
go to start-->accessories-->system tools-->disk cleanup
go to start --> run--> msconfig--> startup tab--> uncheck any program that you dont need to startup automatically. if u are unsure type the name of the process/program in a yahoo search bar.
2007-02-05 02:54:40 · answer #5 · answered by God's little helper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well
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Try it out
2014-08-13 22:07:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋