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  1. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    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...
  2. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    Yo 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...
  3. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    Yo 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...
  4. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    Yo 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...
  5. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    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...
  6. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    Hi 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...
  7. zoltar7

    slow xp home boot ( over 2 hours)

    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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