My computer for the past few days, has been acting very strangely. Whenever i get past the login screen, it takes explorer.exe or some other program around 70+ seconds to load. This means, no icons, no taskbar, absolutely nothing (except for my wallpaper and cursor) So could anyone help me figure out what's causing this?
Try opening up Task Manager, go to the 'Processes' tab and find explorer.exe. If you see one there, right click on it and hit 'End Process'. Then go to File>New Task (Run), and then in this dialogue box type in "explorer.exe" and press on "OK". While you are here, sort this list by CPU and check all the names that are using the most of your CPU. Then sort by Memory. See if there are any that are unusually high. Take a screenshot for us if you can and post here. Tell me what happens after you try running explorer.exe. And are you on XP/Vista/Win7? Oh yeah, and if that doesn't work, try booting to Safe Mode and see what happens. I suggest running a virus scan if possible. Downloading CureIT (Google it if you can) and running on Safe Mode works well.
Ok thanks i'll try that. btw, i have Windows XP Also, is your avatar a picture of a girl Kassadin? Do you play League of Legends?
Two things I can think off here: 1. An overly fragmented hard drive. Solution? Try defragmenting your hard drive. 2. Nasty malware at work. For this one you should get malwarebytes anti-malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Either free or paid versions will do. Download that, install & run it to see if you've got some nasties living in your computer. If any are found, malwarebytes'll kill 'em all for ya!
if you have big files on your desktop that can slow down windows loading quite a bit. Too many programs set to run at startup could as well.
[me=Yoshi2889]fiddles along :[/me] I once had a computer which refused to boot because of the dozens of startup programs. Wasn't mine though. Had to go into Safe Mode to fix it...
