gah...windows xp booting extremely slow all of a sudden...[views:4804][posts:12]_____________________________________ [Oct 9,2007 7:33pm - jddomination ""] so i installed vista on a separate partition...wanted to experiment with it a bit. for the past week all was working well, but just today i tried to bootup XP and it would get to the desktop, and load excruciatingly slow. The mouse works, i can click icons and they will highlight, but that is it. i cannot access the start menu, so i cant really search for the problem....does anybody have a solution? thanks |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 9,2007 7:35pm - fleshfries ""] ^^that was actually my post...he was logged in on my computer earlier.....but anywho, anyone think they can give me a solution? |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 9,2007 7:43pm - the_reverend ""] there is a folder that you can remove to fix that... |
| ___________________________ [Oct 9,2007 7:44pm - Uh ""] the_reverend said:there is a folder that you can remove to fix that... C:\WINDOWS\system32\ |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 9,2007 8:00pm - fleshfries ""] i should have seen that one coming a mile away :P |
| __________________________________ [Oct 9,2007 10:07pm - DeRtOxIa ""] check msconfig and see if anything is set to startup that probably doesn't need to be |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 9,2007 10:25pm - fleshfries ""] DeRtOxIa said:check msconfig and see if anything is set to startup that probably doesn't need to be that would be the first thing id do if i could get the start menu working |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 10,2007 12:03am - DeRtOxIa ""] ctrl+alt+del and get into task manager. see if explorer.exe is running. If it is, terminate it. Then click file>new task and find explorer.exe in C:/windows. This should recreate the explorer process and you should see your desktop. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Oct 10,2007 8:39am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Yup. Dertoxia is right. Kill explorer and restart it. It sounds like it took a shit. And I doubt Vista on the other partition has anything to do with the XP problem. Windows tends to rot after awhile and slows down it would seem. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 10,2007 1:59pm - fleshfries ""] cool, i'll give it a shot when i get home |
| ____________________________________________________ [Oct 10,2007 2:21pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] If that doesn't work, delete system32. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 10,2007 2:54pm - fleshfries ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:If that doesn't work, delete system32. ha, no it worked famously....system32 gets to stay :P |
| ____________________________________________________ [Oct 10,2007 3:16pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Damn! |