My problem is more than just slow boot. It takes about 2 minutes to boot to
all my startup programs. However, for the next 10 to 15 minuts the hard drive
is running continuously. If I try to run another app., e.g. Outlook, it will
freeze and the "Not Responding" notation appears at the top of the screen.
I've tried to nail down what might be hogging the hard drive (using
reliability and performance monitor) but can't identify any single program.
I have 50 gigs free space, 2 GB RAM. I defrag once a week and clean up temp
files and cashes once a day.
It seems all proposed solutions I've run across lead me to one of the
registry cleanup programs. I run Reg. Clean & Wise Registry Cleaner once a
week.
Real time monitoring by McCafee and Windows Defender.
I have run both AD Aware and Spy Bot frequently.
Any help would be appreciated.
John