Hi,

i have a question to ask. This morning, when i turned on my PC desktop running windows XP Pro, it loaded up the windows. Then, after leaving it for a while for it to settle, i went to open up a word. It took ages and STILL did not respond. All i could SEE was the hourglass of the mouse pointer. I KNEW that tells me it's processing the task but this is from the local machine and it shouldn't take that long. I could not run any applications after that.

Then, i did ctrl+alt+del trying to end the process. It was not there. i had no idea what's causing this to happen.

Then, i tried to shut down the computer. This too took ages.

I don't know what's happening here. It's OK yesterday. But what i did to it yesterday was to download the windows update for it. And that's it.

Is there anyway to get around this problem.

Thank you very much in advanceQuick remedy to cure Windows.
1)Take a bottle of Windex.
2)Open the PC case.
3)spray Windex freely onto the the mother board and the power supply until you SMELL and see smoke premeating your room.
4) Ta-da, you don't have to do windows ever again in your life.
  8-)
J/k

Seriously, did you check for virus? Any applications running in the background?
Try to start your PC in safe mode to see if it work.

Write BACK with more info perhaps you can get more help.




1. do a virus scan
2. do a spyware scan
3. run ccleaner ( download from here http://www.ccleaner.com/ )
4. run hijack this (download from here http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html) and post a log here

if the first 2 clear the problem then u dont need to do the other 2.