Continuation of XP home problem
The only mishap in this procedure of restoring windows XP , is that now the control panel has 2 icons for many of the entries. I suspect that there is no way to delete the extra icons other than a complete start from scratch approach. Doesn't seem to hurt...
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Just to close the loop. I generated some boot discs (6) and borrowed a windows home xp CD (which was not included in my purchase since it was imaged) and reloaded XP. System was often hung at 100% cpu usage -- could not get norton antivirus to finish, would have taken days. Then I...
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One other interesting piece of information. I tried a system recovery rollback using rstrui.exe and only had one rollback date (5/30/2003). The rstrui.exe could not find any other rollback files even though I have continuous monitoring checked off in system recovery.
Looking more...
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Just discovered what is causing the system to run soooo slowly -- it is a process called system which is using 98/99 percent of the CPU.
Any idea what might be causing that ?? Possibly a virus ??
Trying to run a virus check on the computer, but it might take days at this rate...
Ok just an update, still not much luck with this problem
the boots are requiring overnight (many many hours)
the fsutil came up clean on all 3 drives
the sfc came up clean
the sigverif came up clean (2014 signed) not scanned 891(not installed)
installed the recovery console but can't get...
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Thanks for the prompt reply. I have tried bootvis but was unaware of the the options & graphs.
I'll try the fsutil idea -- sounds good
When I remove everything from startup in msconfig , I can boot & quickly. When I starting putting items back into startup I hang -- so...
sony vaio used for movie editing has suddently started to exhibit boot problem
startup disc works fine and c drive file system is in tact
removed everything in startup using msconf
believe that H/W os OK and that this is a S/W issue but can't find a way to step thru the boot files step by...
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