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by aadoo120

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hello, i have a pc with configuartion as follows,
256 MB RAM,40GB HDD Pentium 4 1.8ghz Processor,intel 845gv mother board.
My problem is whenever i switch on the pc XP takes long time to boot.i,e The moving blue screen appears 14 to 15 times.i installed xp service pack2 also but i could't overcome from this problem.Please anybody can give the solution?

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by blackcurrant

Hi

Try booting into safe mode (press F8 when the computer starts and select the option to start in Safe Mode), and then click Start>Run and type this:

scf /scannow

in the dialog box. This will start the System File Checker and make sure your system files are intact.

If that does not help solve the problem try running the CheckDisk utility: Right-click My Computer, select Manage, click Disk Management, right-click your boot drive (normally C), select Properties, then click the Tools tab, and click the Error Checking button. Click Check now and make sure that the options to check for and recover bad sectors and Automatically fix errors are ticked. The next time the computer is rebooted, chkdsk will run and check your drive.

If this does not work then you should run some diagnostics to make sure your registry is OK, and check for viruses as well.

Good luck

by lmayeda

Are you connecting to a network? If so, double check that you have the correct IP address of your DNS server. (Settings, Network Connections, Right click on local area connections, properties, TCP/IP Click on Use the following DNS server address). When missing or incorrect, I've seen it take 20 minutes to boot. Hope this helps.

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