Today my computer all of sudden came to a standstill whilst I was working in a couple of programs (IE and Musicmach I think). I decided it was time for a restart. On startup, the computer seemed to stop loading when it reached the blue "please wait starting windows" screen. After a few mins, my desktop gradually appeared but i was unable to open any files and/or run any programmes. The taskbar at the bottom of the screen was not accesible either. Shutdown also took well over 10 mins. After trying to solve the problem by running Xp home cd, the problem still existed and i unsuccessfully tried to do a system restore through safe mode. I do not have any error messages, just a very very slow system that wont do anything! :( Has anyone had this experience or is anyone familiar with the symptoms? Any help is welcomed.

Do you have adequate anti-virus protection???

hello mmjb uses lots of system resources. and too many other things going at the same time will cause this.send mmjb an email. allso for general shut down problems try this link http://www.aumha.org/ and d/l spybot search and destroy update it run it. and try these scans free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp d/l mcafee,s stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

It looks like a sowftware conflic. What are your specs?

The first thing to do: Run a virus scanner Run a spyware scanner Run a Trojan scanner if 3 of program said came in CLEAN reports. you might have a hard drive too much clogged, you can defrag the hard drives. Start/Program/Accessories/System Tools and click defragments and run it.