[Help] - Windows has problems starting up

[2fingers]

Hi.

My problem is that windows acts really weird at times. When i restart the computer, sometimes it slows down/refuses to start at the desktop. I do not get any error - what i do get is is i do see the desktop wallpaper, but the icons or the start bar hasnt shown yet. A ctrl + alt + del and a restarting produces a window stating that explorer.exe doesnt seem to be responding. Force ending it produces a restart and the computer restarts subsequently.

The usual time where my computer starts up - around 45-1 min.

With this problem, i get into windows, but have never seen the icons/start bar (even after 5 mins of waiting)

My setup

AMD xp 2400+

199GHz

1.00 GB of Ram

Radeon 9600 Pro

Microsoft Windows XP

Home edition

SP 2

Software in system

Windows Live messenger

IE6

Norton Systemworks 06

I've got a hijack this log - i could post it if it would help.

[allen2]

Perhaps your profile is damaged, did you try to log on with another user account ?

[LLXX]

The usual time where my computer starts up - around 45-1 min.

45 minutes? I think you may have a hardware problem...

Edit: 1666 post

Edited July 14, 2006 by LLXX

[Mordac85]

Or a virus that's slammin' the system. Try booting up w/o the network connected, or in safe mode, and run an AV scan. You do have AV installed, don't you?

[pmshah]

Try hitting alt tab to see if any message box is hidden under the wallpaper. Apartfrom this the first thing I would try would be to boot into safe mode & remove Norton system works.