AboutShot Expertise I can answer most questions concerning Microsoft operating systems from DOS through Windows 2003. Hardware or software questions welcome. This is what I do for a living, and I love it! So instead of giving extra to Uncle Sam, I decided to give a little for free. Fire away!
Experience I have been working with computers for over 20 years, currently hold a full time job as a Network Administrator for large financial institution, and run my own PC/Network consulting company since 1998.
Education/Credentials Microsoft Certified;
Novell Certified;
Comptia A Certified;
IBM Certified Business Partner in Desktops/Laptops/Servers;
HP Certified Technician Desktops/Laptops/Servers;
Toshiba Authorized Service Technician;
Question Hello,
Starting last weekend, my inspiring 1000 running XP, starting to take a longer time to reboot. I tried the date recovery tool, going back 3 weeks but it didn't solve it.
What could be the problem?
How can I fix it?
Answer Hi Weyne, this could be many, many things, from OS to virus, even hardware, but I would think that would be the last option.
The first thing I would ask is have you installed any new software lately that might be causing this? Another question is does it take a long tim on the way down, on the way up, or both?
One quick thing that may improve performance is to make sure you have free space on the C drive and run the disk defragmento.
A quick way to figure out what is causing it to start slow is to run msconfig (Start>Run type in msconfig) and disable some of the things that load on startup by unchecking the boxes next to their names. You can put them back by simply checking the box again.
