XP PRO, SP 3, MS Updates all installed. 1.96 Gb of RAM. 3.20Ghz
It takes the system forever to boot up, the user finally logs in and it take forever before she can open up a program, (no matter what program it is: IE 8, AutoCAD, Explorer, MSCONFIG etc)
What I have done:
1) Installed and ran the following Scans:
Malwarebytes, Glary Utilites, Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware. some Malware, Spyware and Adware were found and removed.
2) Ran Trend Micro Anti Virus program and not viruses were found.
3) Ran SCANDISK, it took several hours (step 4 of 5 took over 6 1/2 hours to complete, it was still running when I left the office and I don’t know how long step 5 took) and when I returned the next day the logon screen was up.
4) Defrag the hard drive – 2 times – both times it took forever.
5) went into MSCONFIG and unchecked all the startup programs and booted the system and still it is taking the system forever to boot up and login and do anything on the system.
6) Hard drive has over 95 GB of free space so space is not an issue
7) deleted the Temporary Internet Files.
8) checked Device Manager for conflicts and there are none.
What else can I do to check this system out before I format and install everything back on to the system. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in Advance!
Robin
PS. I updated all of the scan software in normal mode than ran the scans in SAFEMODE.
P.S.S I just went into Event Logs and tried to pull up the System Event log and it came back saying “The event log file is corrupt”. hmmmm