Where do I start... My laptop is a Compaq Presario 1200 (AMD-K6 473Mhz, 156MB ram, Win XP Pro SP1) Only days ago the whole computer was running at its greatest potential (which we know isn't much) until I made the mistake of a Windows Update. Sounded innocent at the time. Just another one of those Recomended Updates for SP1. It downloaded all its files and such and began the installaion process 3/4 of they way through it said 'testing final configuration' and just locked up for a good hour. I couldn't restart/logoff/shutdown so I held in the power button to kill it. Waited a few moments and rebooted... Hard drive, cdrom etc initiated and then the HD started making odd noises similar to a defrag with lag. 12 minutes of blank screen finally Windows loaded. Once in everything runs fine just the boot process takes a good 8-10 min now Help!-tried clean boot
-tried safe mode
-tried scandisk
-tried defrag
-tried virus scanning
What am I missing?