stuck at welcome screen
 

I was working on my boses computer at hes house. And for some reason It sits at win xp home welcome screen for at least a min. Most of the time not thinking. Just like idling there. its a hp pavilion 533c. let me know if you guys know why its so slow at start up. Its a 2.4 ghz with 512 ram i would not think it would take that long. And i turned off all the startup items. So that cant be the problem.

This is a generic answer, but have you ran Ad-Aware and Spybot on it? Spyware and Adware will cause a PC to slow down exponentially, but it doesn't typically cause start-up issues. Just a suggestion!

-Lasereth

is it on a network (say out to a cable modem)? XP's start-up can almost freeze as it's looking for the DHCP to assign it an IP address.

it is on a network that is not online. Multiple computers hooked up on a hub. But non of them are on the internet or ever have. Can you get spyware without being on the net?

If you install software with spyware included, sure you can. It cant send its data back to the mother server(s), but it sure as hell can clog things up.

i have not installed anything lately. And realy have not installed anything that would have spyware. its pretty much stock off the shelf comp. I installed quickbooks and other acconting software but nothing that would contrain spyware on it.