Boot up is extraordinarily slow!

Question

I am hoping someone can help me with this.  My computer has become extremely slow in booting up, and in opening and closing windows.  Sometimes it takes several minutes to boot up, and 30-45 sec. or even longer to close or open a program.    My hard drive is not full, or even close.  I have gotten updates from both Spybot and Norton Antivirus, run the programs, and they say I have no viruses or spyware.  I have removed a few programs.  There are no new peripherals, no new programs since before this started happening.  It becomes marginally faster when I reboot.  Once the machine is booted up, or the program opened, it operates normally.  I am completely stumped.    Anyone?   Plum

Lonewolf_m · Answer

What it sounds like to myself is that your registry is to bloated, what I want you to do, is go here www.registryfix.com  and run that program, and I'm more than sure you'll be back to a normal boot.

awm129 · Answer

When was the last time you reformated your hard drive and reinstalled windows?  XP machines seem to need a good cleaning every year or so.  That should take care of any slowness issues.  Make sure to save your data!

peterfelgate_ce40d3 · Answer

Just check that the processor speed in the bios is set to 'normal 'and not 'compatible' - although this explains slow boot and window opening, you say that programs run OK......

PlumPudding · Answer

How is that done, Peter?  I have never done that before.

PlumPudding · Answer

I had REALLY hoped to avoid that step.  I will do that if all else fails.  Thanks, awm.

PlumPudding · Answer

Thanks Lonewolf.  I'll try that tonight.

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