[plagosus]

Whenever I boot up windows, before XP even starts I have to sit through a very lengthy diagnostic check screen. On my other computers, I do not have this problem. When starting up windows I have to wait a very long time. Any advise on how to avoid this problem would be greatly appreciated.

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hello there,

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What you need to do, is go to THIS
forum and post a HJT log there.

You will be assisted by Malware removal experts and your problem will quickly be solved.

Hope all this helpd you,
Werner

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Hi plagosus

the first suspect about system startup could be because of loading of lot of applications at startup. Just for example: yahoo messenger to some spyware. Added to it is services loaded by windows xp.
To disable the startup applications. try start->run->msconfig click ok.
Click on the Startup tab, you will see a list to programs with run at the startup.
Uncheck all the unnecessary programs and leave just the anti-virus and firewall programs if any.

You will see the difference.

Hope this will help