PC Computer Weirdness

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

So, my computer is mega slow. It takes about ten minutes or so for it to boot up to where I can do anything with it like click on Firefox to launch it. And then when I click on it, it takes another two minutes or so for Firefox to start up.

Also, when web pages load, the pics don't load for awhile. I just get the border of the pic and the pic eventually loads but a long time after everything else does.

Any ideas?

BTD helped me the other day clearing out certain start up file thingies and it helped for a bit but not it's slow again.

I did an Ad Aware thing and a Windows Defender thing and an AVG thing and all of them say everything is ok.

ETA: Forgot to mention: I'm running Windows XP and have about 40 GB of space avail.

Start-> RightClick on My Computer->Manage->Event Viewer->Application

Do you see any red circles with X's in them? If so what's the matching source and event number?

Start-> RightClick on My Computer->Manage->Event Viewer->System

Do you see any red circles with X's in them? If so what's the matching source and event number?


Also, once it does finally come up is it ok after that or is it always slow?