WinXP runnning unbearably slow Created 18 years ago2006-09-27 10:49:31 UTC by ZombieLoffe

Recently my computer's been acting all strange - it takes forever for most apps to start and the boot time is extremely long.
From the moment I press the On button 'till I can start an application, there's about 10 minutes of waiting time.

I've run numerous viral and spyware scan using avast!, ad-aware and SpyBot, and they all show up clean.

I've checked what launches at boot, and there's nothing suspicious there. Also checked the services, nothing there either.

I've been meaning to reformat, but it feels kind of unecessary to do so until I get some new HDDs.
Anyone have any idea what's wrong?

Services running:

Startup:

well... you seem to have a lot of services running at startup - I have about 3. What RAM do you have, and how much is your comp currently using? Otherwise......................... FORMAT!!!!!!

have you defragged?

If after that its slow, i say reformat is the only way. This kinda happened to me a while back and i had to format.

Is it a slow shutdown time, too?

hmmm do this:
1.Turn PC on
2. Take a shower
3. Go on PC.

Works every time!

Those screenies dont really help other than to say you have a LOT of stuff running, which is probably the culprit, a lot of those services aren't vital.

well... you seem to have a lot of services running at startup - I have about 3

No. You don't.

It's a pretty clean system. One of those things, eh?

Formatted C: without much difficulty. Smooth now.

Maybe you should stay off those new pr0n sites...

He is the pr0n site.