Nothing Loads

Chronicle · 10 Feb 2006 at 18:02

Hi
Often, when starting up a pc of mine, running xp home, i click on icons to load programs and nothing will load. then after some time, anything upto 3 - 5 mins, all requested programs load at once. Any programs already loaded work fine. This often happens when i start windows. I've put a print screen of task manager. I am running winamp, IE, and FF, but other than that, its just as it would be when starting up - any ideas?

(btw when nothing is loading, the computer isn't busy)

This has happened even after just a few days of a clean install, with very little programs installed. Its been happening for ages, decided this half term i need to sort everything out like this

thanks

ns400r · 10 Feb 2006 at 18:36

I would start by stopping or disabling EVERY task in that list that is run under the ASH username. Every single one.

Then try to run something.

msnmsgr - 125Mb
firefox - 114Mb

What are they doing running at startup and using soooooooooooooo much memory ?

Chronicle · 10 Feb 2006 at 18:45

Firefox isn't running at start up. msn is.
Umm not sure about msnmsgr. Its msn 8 ... Right now its only at approx 78mb... but still suppose its quite a lot

antc · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:31

have you tried going into msconfig into the startup tab and disabling all but the required windows services??

see how it goes, can make quite a big difference if you have a lot of stuff in there!!