Compaq computer with Windows XP SP2, 2.2ghz processor with 1.43GB PC3200 DDR 400 memory. The problem is whenever you reboot the system or simply start it up, during the re-boot it gets to the Windows XP splash screen and just takes FOREVER! The little dash that goes back and forth on this screen actually stops moving and locks in middle of window almost as if it has stopped working. Then after about 45 seconds or so, it moves to next stage. By the time it gets to the Windows logon screen, a good couple minutes or so has passed by. Then after logon it takes forever to load the startup items, which includes Norton Internet Security Suite 2005. I have gone into msconfig and disabled all but the Norton for start-up and nothing changes with the time and speed of boot-up at all. Have defragmented, ran chkdsk couple times, used spybot and adaware programs, ran anti-virus, and disk cleanup; yet nothing seems to make the boot-up to the logon any faster. No problems seemed to be found with harddisk, so I have run out of solutions. Was thinking it takes so long because the harddrive is so big (184GB), but not sure. Never really heard of any kind of issue like that because of hard drive size, but then again, this is the first time I have worked with one as big. Need help badly.
