"Shell Hardware Detection" service causing slow startup

[DMoll]

My boss has brought his home PC in to be fixed - it is taking an extremely long to boot and then to navigate through folder in Explorer.

I cleaned it out of loads of viruses and spyware in safe mode but the problem remained. Then worked through the auto-starting services and found that if "Shell Hardware Detection" was disabled all was OK.

How can I restore this service? What are the consequences of not having this service running given that my boss is not particularly PC literate...?

 

[Rick998]

Shell Hardware Detection" provides notifications for AutoPlay hardware events, e.g. auto-insert notification that auto-runs CD's or pops up autoplay menus for USB devices.

Try Microsoft's AutoFix tool available from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389CFACDAD&displaylang=en

If this doesn't fix it then for more info (and 2 diagnostic tools) have a look at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/11/autoplay/.

Hope this helps...