On my WinXP PC (not this one) when it starts up, it sits there at the desktop for about 15 minutes until any sort of program can be opened. It opens this "something.ini" file, (Don't remember the something) in notepad on startup, and everything is sorta frozen. I can close that notepad, right click on desktop, open the start menu, click anything, but no programs open, even MSN which is set to auto-open on startup kinda sits there in the taskbar. Now I ask you, anyone ever seen this before? Ah, there it goes, I'm gonna go back to that PC now.


Oh and it's been feeling sluggish lately. No spyware detected no viruses detected, all latest definitions, using Ad Aware-Spybot, and Norton antivirus.

Did you check your 'Start Up' List for anything unusual, or your processes for anything that shouldn't be there?

Sounds like you have something running that's playing silly buggers with your computer.

did you insall any new hardware/software ?

Grab a copy of Norton System Works and run it, that'll find most any problem.

Also, if you type msconfig (in the run box), it'll pull up everything that starts up with the pc. Maybe you could TRY removing whatever that is, or editing it.

Originally posted by wolfstream
Grab a copy of Norton System Works and run it, that'll find most any problem.

Also, if you type msconfig (in the run box), it'll pull up everything that starts up with the pc. Maybe you could TRY removing whatever that is, or editing it.

Norton AV doesnt catch anything. I've run numerous things on it to see what it would catch, what it wouldn't. McAfee and Kaspersky were the two other ones I tried that caught everything.

If all else fails, reformat it. Sometimes you can get away with doing a "repair installation" of windows instead, so try that before reformatting.

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Norton System Works checks for problems like this in Windows, registry problems, all kinds of stuff really. It's quite helpful when checking out potential problems in pcs

I would suggest starting up in safe mode and see if you have the same problem. If you do, check what msconfig is starting up. A lot of that malarkey can be disabled and doesn't need to start itself every single time the computer loads Windows.