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I don't know what caused this, but it happened suddenly, out of the blue. I was using my PC this morning as normal, opening several instances of IE and My Computer. I haven't installed anything new this morning.
So I was very confused and frustrated when My Computer and IE both started making me wait for approximately 20 seconds after running them before appearing on the screen.
Anyone got any ideas? I am absolutely sure that I didn't change a single setting nor install any program before this happened.
Boot your system while holding down F8 key. At the Windows Advanced Options Menu select Last Known Good Configuration and press Enter.
If that does not work, run System Restore in Safe Mode. When Windows reports that your computer is running in Safe Mode, click No so you can use System Restore to restore the computer to an earlier configuration, when it was starting properly.
Hope this helps. Bye
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Thanks. I'll try the first option, but I can't try the second because I have System Restore disabled.
Yesterday, I duplicated my hard disk using Norton Ghost. I was going to restore this backup, but I just tested it and it won't boot unless I plug in both of my drives. When both are plugged in and the backup is set to Master, the backup drive seems to insist on calling itself drive F: although this is irrelevant because if the OS won't boot independently the backup is useless.
That probably made no sense! Still, any more suggestions will be much appreciated :)
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Well, this is infuriating. It works perfectly in safe mode but even when I remove everything from startup in normal mode I still can't get it working. I'm running out of patience so I'll probably end up reinstalling XP yet again :(
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This is extremely odd as I had the EXACT same thing happen to me early this morning. Perhaps theres some type of virus or something? I have yet to figure out and have used system restore, reinstalled IE, with no results. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Yes, reinstalling will surely do.
But next time use Opera as the default browser.
It is zillions of times faster than IE hog.
Regards,
Carlos
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open your internetcon and broser if its works slow us strg/alt/del and look what treats are working and needs a great time of windows most it is svhost-netword close this and your brosing works normal fast
regard artur
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In reply to the last one which I could barely understand but i'll try my best. The problem is NOT the browsing. It is fine when it starts, however it is just the lag time when it starts...I think I am going to try to reinstall Windows XP and hopefully that will fix my problem!
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I have a similar slow browsing problem and in my task manager I have 4 of this Svhost running,all indicating system and I don`t knw which on to disable or should I disable all?
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I am stuck now. I reinstalled Windows XP, and that still did not fix the problem. I have no idea what to do now. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated..short of formatting of course..
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SOLUTION!!!
OK Shortly after my last post I tried one more thing. I downloaded LAVASOFT AD AWARE, a really small program you can get off of download.com and other similiar sites. After scanning the registry which only takes about 30 seconds, it showed that i had 3 different trojans installed. One was called "BrilliantDigital", another called "Flashtrack" and yet another called "cydoor".
I believe it was FLASHTRACK which was doing it which is installed with Imesh, and the others are installed by various mp3 finders as well such as Kazaa. Run Ad Aware, check all the boxes and remove those from the registry. After restarting I had no problems and everything came up fine!
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AGHHHH!!! Mine is doing EXACTLY the same thing, takes about 20 seconds to pull up 'My Computer' and IE but then everything runs fine... once it's up. I installed the Lavasoft Ad Aware, it found a ton of crap, I deleted it all and restarted but symptoms persist. I don't want to do anything drastic to the computer, any other ideas?
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Got the same problem! Reinstalled my windows XP twice! I am totally pissed off now... I will try the ad-aware and will post the results.
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Not bad, 2 out of 3! Make sure you CHECK all the boxes in that ad aware. If you simply just hit continue it will not delete them. You have to check them all. Also make sure you do a registry check, not just a hd check!
If that doesn't work I don't know what to tell you!! I tried reinstalling everything and that didn't fix it but getting rid of those "spyware" programs did.
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Thanks very much for the help! Ad-Aware couldn't get rid of the FlashTrack files but a simple DEL *.* at the DOS prompt got rid of the ba5tard :)
Goddamn spyware!
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If you have run Ad-Aware but it hasn't got rid of everything, make sure you boot from a floppy and delete the folder "C:\Program Files\Flt" and all its contents from the command prompt. It is likely that Ad-Aware won't remove this folder because the file "Flt.dll" is in use whilst Windows is running.
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Ad Aware did it. Stupid Mo Foing FLT folder and files.
MY internet explorer was crashing on me upon start. Couldn't even get in to do anything!
Thanks for the help all.
Farting Man
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