Hi People,

I have a strange problem, two users on a xp pro machine are having big trouble with the system slowing right down when trying to use--logging off takes up to 5 minutes. However administrator mode there are no problems.

Can I disable some startup programes or roll back to an earlier time to fix this problem, or what is causing this?

System has Nortons 2003 av

Any help really appreciated.

Thanks teldave ;(

I had a similar problem on a athlon system. I added a new user copied the files and deleted the old one. Never found out what was wrong...

Have you tried deleting the contents of the prefetch folder? Sometimes those files get corrupted and slow down the startup/shutdown.

Both the other users have problems with not just logon and logoff but with all their programs not responding for an hour or more i.e. incredimail

It is not practical to test things as the computer is just to slow as a user to use.

As An Administrator can I do anything to correct this problem?

Thanks Teldave

Thanks for the help guys, the problem turned out to be spyware trying to compete for the cpu processing time. Kazaar seemed to have been the big hog. Used adaware to clean out but a kazaar routine starts at bootup but can't fireup properly. How does a person remove programs from the startup bootup process in XP?

By the way I used ctrl alt del to end running processes so I could work on the computer.

Thanks for trying to help

Cheers teldave

START / RUN / MSCONFIG

or

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

The situation you have been describing I have also seen when a profile is unable to unload the registry. The event viewer tells the tale.

Other ways to increase boot times are using bootvis.exe (from MS website) and shutting down extraneous services.

HTH