Takes L-O-N-G FOR DESKTOP TO APPEAR!

[nonewhatsoever]

So, I have xp professional.
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I press the on/off button.
I click to use XP instead of 2002.
I put in my password then I click enter.
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Then my BACKGROUND shows!
Woo-hoo!  Where are my . . . desktop items?
Where's the taskbar/toolbar whatchamacallit?
GAHHH!  MY COMPUTER'S FREAKED UP!


---I wait 2 to 3 minutes---
Oh, there you are desktop items!  I thought I lost you!  I missed you too taskbar thingy.


HELP.  This has become a daily problem. . . I have to wait . . . for a couple of minutes.  And then the screen pops up.  But the bg always shows first.

Any advice?

[pcuser123]

i thing some of your desktop icons have a lot of memory or something

i had the same problem

used disk cleanup found out it was some next teletubies game that my brother plays that took so long to load

after i deleted it  my PC worked fine

try and find out what program takes so long and delete it

[macdad-]

Download CCleaner:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Install it, Run it.

Once the Window appears hit: Run Cleaner

Give it some time to work, once it has finished hit: Tools on the sidebar -> Startup

Please give the list of the startup items on that list.

[pcs365_2]

Hi,

You can try to remove all temporary files and internet cookies by following the below mentioned steps:

1). Click on START and then select RUN.

2). Type "%temp%" and hit enter. (Without quotes)

3). Select all the files and folders then delete.

4). Click on START and then select RUN.

5). Type "temp" and hit enter. (Without quotes)

6). Select all the files and folders then delete.

7). Goto My Computer and right click on C: drive, select properties.

8 ). Goto tools and click on disk clean up.

9). Put check mark on all the options and click on ok.

10). Restart your computer and it should work.

[Allan]

Hi,

You can try to remove all temporary files and internet cookies by following the below mentioned steps:

1). Click on START and then select RUN.

2). Type "%temp%" and hit enter. (Without quotes)

3). Select all the files and folders then delete.

4). Click on START and then select RUN.

5). Type "temp" and hit enter. (Without quotes)

6). Select all the files and folders then delete.

7). Goto My Computer and right click on C: drive, select properties.

8 ). Goto tools and click on disk clean up.

9). Put check mark on all the options and click on ok.

10). Restart your computer and it should work.

What would that have to do with ANYTHING? Please ignore the above advice.

[nonewhatsoever]

Not actually helping. . . ?

[patio]

What Allan is probably suggesting is the above advice may do little or nothing to improve your startup times...
DLoad install and run StartupCPL from Mike Lin's website...

Let's have a looksee at what apps are loading at startup and bogging you down...

[nonewhatsoever]

Hold on, yes.  Something else is preventing me from installing the Startup CPL.  It's as if I try to install something, the program just closes.  This happens with Firefox Add-ons, Security Sites, Antivirus protection sites, and any page with too much of the word 'install' or 'virus'. Ugh.

It only installs at certain times.  So as of now, it can't.

[patio]

It's installed...

Open Control Panel...then clik Startup.

[nonewhatsoever]

hah, okay.

Startup (user)
Windows Messenger C:/Program Files/Messenger/msmsgs.exe

Startup (common)
fghij
Windows Search

HKLM / Run
fghij C:/msi/fghij.pif
Groove Monitor
Igfx Tray                             
IMJPMIG8.1                           
Kernel Fault Check               
nmctxth
PHIME2002
PHIME2002ASync
SunJavaUpdatedSched

HKCU / Run
ctfmon.exe
fghij
Google Update
msnmsgr
swg

Do you need any paths?

[Allan]

No idea what fghij is but the fact that it has inserted itself into multiple starup  locations is a problem. Run a full scan with your AV and with MalwareBytes

[Broni]

Read here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html
Start new topic here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html
Do NOT post any logs in THIS thread.

[macdad-]

What Allan is probably suggesting is the above advice may do little or nothing to improve your startup times...
DLoad install and run StartupCPL from Mike Lin's website...

Let's have a looksee at what apps are loading at startup and bogging you down...

Would CCleaner have not been able to detect all the startup items or what?

Download CCleaner:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Install it, Run it.

Once the Window appears hit: Run Cleaner

Give it some time to work, once it has finished hit: Tools on the sidebar -> Startup

Please give the list of the startup items on that list.

[Broni]

It doesn't matter, since OP's computer is clearly infected.

[patio]

I'll 2nd this emotion...