Help me Diagnose my Problem

Hey,

My computer has an abnormally long startup time. It usually takes at least 4 minutes to boot up, whereas my desktop takes 30 seconds. It seems like it takes longer and longer every time also.
After I enter my login password, sometimes it makes the startup sound and then doesnt even change the screen for 15 seconds. Then it will just show the background image for 15 seconds, then start loading the icons and taskbar icons. I don't know what the issue is. Hopefully these screenshots will help you help me

Also, once it's started, everything runs pretty fast, it's just this awefuls startup time. When I want to show people my computer their initial thought it that it sucks because it takes forever to start up.

 

is that how many processes it has when it boots up?

 

That's alot of processes,it looks like you could do without some starting up automatically,try setting them to manual.

 

Yea it has about 65 at startup...


And how do I set it to manual?

 

Go to start>run>type "msconfig" (without quotes)>startup tab. You can then uncheck items that you don't want to start up. If you don't know what they are google them.

 

Two things that I see are Adobe Photoshop and Symantec (Norton) Anti-Virus. I suspect that these two process are what is taking your system so long to load. I'm curious how much memory you have left with all of these processes running?

I would go to "msconfig" and uncheck anything related to Adobe. Secondly if at all possible dump Norton. Norton is a notorious resource hog. Go with something like NOD32 for your ant-virus needs, since its signature is much smaller than that Norton's. Is your Norton AV an enitre suite that includes a firewall? If so, uninstall the Zone alarm Firewall!

There are other items that can be removed but start with what I mentioned-above and see if that helps.

Good luck!

 

Thanks for the advice. I have to have SpyBot and Norton AntiVirus installed otherwise I can't log into the school network here.

It says my
Physical Memory-
total:2095144
available:1360800
system cache:877200

Kernel Memory-
total:95856
paged:70952
nonpaged:24900

Commit Charge-
total:657600
limit-4033672
peak-717864

 

So you have plenty of available RAM left which is good. It's unfortunate that you are "required" to run Norton, but some things can't be changed. I would still suggest that you remove Photoshop from your startup.

 

Hi again.

I recently formatted to NTFS and defragged the 2 partitions.

I noticed a HUGE increase in performance after the conversion. I can access the harddrives faster and it starts up probably 25% faster. After the defrag also it helped.

And with fat32, it took 2 hours to defrag, while now with ntfs it took only 10 minutes.

 

i recommend that u remove cli.* from ur start-up and disable all related ati services
these r related to ati gpu and would not be needed unless u constantly want to tweak ur graphic card
u would definitively see a boost in ur boot-up after this

cheers ...

 

You might also try running Disk Cleanup (not on the recovery partition, though) and doing another defrag.

Also, you should shut down any running applications, then check your processes. I don't know why "firefox.exe" is showing up, unless it's running.