JonMikelV

Yeah - too much of something. But I'm not sure how to a) identify it or get rid of it all. A boot after an MSCONFIG with everything turned off (so nothing loads automatically) is almost as slow as a boot with the usual junk showing up. I don't know where else stuff gets loaded automatically. I assume there are some folders in which DLLs or various items are loaded but I'm not sure where and I'm hoping that randomly uninstalling programs to see if they were the cause can be avoided. Thanks for the quick read/reply!

I've had my machine (Celeron 333/60G HDD/384M mem) for about 6 years now. Started with 98 & upgraded to 98SE. I've noticed lately that it's been taking longer & longer to boot and once started running slower & slower with more 'jerkiness'. I can't pinpoint when it started but I'm trying to figure out what's causing it. There are a few other 'oddities' that creeped in over time but they were in place before the speed issue. If I boot in safe mode it's OK. Normal boot with NOTHING loading is almost as slow as when I have all my usual crap (Antivirus, Firewall, etc., etc.) loading. I tried running Regmon during a boot and noticed about 12,000 Explorer process registry accesses (open, query, close so I suppose it's really about 4,000) mostly focused in HKCR. I poked in there and it appears that quite a few of my Entries have a 'duplicate' xxxxx.1 entry - effectively doubling my HKCR subkeys. I'm fairly computer literate in general but don't know a whole lot about the registry (though I'm not afraid of it). Does anybody know if this HKCR issue is a likely cause of my slowdown? I hate to research something that isn't going to pan out. Thanks! Oh - those 'oddities' mentioned above include some apps reporting me having 98 while others say 98SE and a nice 3% CPU usage UNTIL I move my mouse at which point it jumps to about 40% and only goes down WHILE I move my mouse!