The Grandpa Computer

**Caius** · 12-14-2007, 22:33

My computer isn't that old. But it works as old.

Its tooking me a lot of time to enter to see the Welcome screen, and Im getting annoyed. What the hell is going on? Some virus? Some HD damaged?

**Charge** · 12-14-2007, 22:55

If you have this since you've got your comp, then no it is hardware.
If not, probably OS reinstalling would be helpful..

**CrossLOPER** · 12-14-2007, 23:29

I'm assuming you have a Windows OS.

Firstly, give us some specs. Type "dxdiag.exe" (without the quotes) in the "run" box and give me everything you see on the first page. Like Charge said, if you had this computer for a while you may experience slowdowns, especially at start-up. Sometimes, new computers experience this as well.

It could also be that you have too many programs starting up all at once when you start your computer. Type "msconfig" (again, without the quotes) into the run box and see what you have starting up. If you see something you don't need, un-check it and see what happens. If you do not know what should and should not run, ask first.

OS reinstall and total recovery should only be used as a last resort. Alternatively, if you have changed the settings in some way, you could always return to a system restore point when you machine worked better. Again, if you do not know what you are doing, ask first.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 12-15-2007, 07:18

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Run a virus check with Avast! and a Spyware check with Spybot Search & Destroy. (Links in the sticky thread.) Do them in safe mode, with the Administrator account. To do that, disable the welcome screen so that it asks you with which account to log on.
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**Caius** · 12-15-2007, 20:32

Thank you guys for the help. I've made that thing of the msconfig. I iwll download Avast! and Spybot blahblahblah now.

**Caius** · 12-16-2007, 23:30

Back to square 1. Its still working weird.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 12-17-2007, 04:42

Computers generally get slow on bootup and stuff if you keep them going without regular maintainence such as defragging and removing junk that is no longer needed.

It can also be down to how much space is on your HD. I generally try and keep 10GB free on my main HD, because if i go over the 10GB mark, it slowly goes to hell. Random crashes, 5 minute boot times, all sorts of joyous things.