Solve : PC uses different startup each time I boot?

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Answer» Hello - Every time I boot my computer, the startup process seems different each time. My desktop settings appear differently, the task bar programs appear in different order each time, and the system tray order is different. It also seems to recycle every forth or fifth boot and restarts the order these, "boot setups" for lack of a better term, are being loaded. I run anti-spyware faithfully, anti-virus is installed and monitoring. I have scanned EVERYTHING over and over again. Run a registry cleaner. Ran PCOptimize. Every thing that I can think of I have ran to make sure that there isn't some outside force playing with my system. I have firewalls in place, and sites that test this say I am in "stealth mode" and cannot be seen or reached from the Internet unless I want to. It blows my mind why this is doing this. Anyone got a clue as to what is going on? Thanks in advance for your help.This is normal. It's just Windows loading them in a different order. Right click the desktop and choose arrange icons by --> auto arrange, to get them into alphabetical order. Does that help? Quote This is normal. It's just Windows loading them in a different order. Right click the desktop and choose arrange icons by --> auto arrange, to get them into alphabetical order. Does that help? I think you are thinking about the desktop icons loading differently. I am talking about the programs that are loaded and running in the background. Their icons in the taskbar are in different order. What happens is that sometimes my anti-virus loads first and then my MS security center. When this happens, all is fine. But then in another bootup the security loads before the anti-virus program and I am told my system is at risk because there is no anti-virus program loaded. Other times my email TRIES to check the in-box before zone-alarm loads, and it can't get the mail, and another time ZA loads and then my email and all is fine. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to the way things are loading, and they do it randomly. I will set my desktop settings to be one way. Save them, the system keeps them for a few boots, then I get something different for the desktop settings. I look at the place to change them, and it is set to what I wanted, but the sample is altered. I click another theme, and then back to the one I wanted, and it looks fine again. Help me...I've got gremlins but all my scans say all is well. I have all the latest file updates for the scans, but nothing is found.Sorry, the first two lines refer to the background items. They will be loaded in different ORDERS unless you use special software to change it, perhaps by applying a delay to each item. How many items do you have set to start with your PC? And how long does it take to boot?I have ZoneAlarm firewall, McAfee Anti-virus, MailwasherPro, and MacDrive6. Then there is the volume and the safely remove hardware icons. That is about it besides all the MS junk they make run at startup in the background. Boot time is reasonable, less than a minute...power-button to Internet. If this helps anyone: Dell Desktop 3200 2 GIG Ram XP Home SP2 120 Gig internal HD 320GIg external HDNothing seems out of place to me then. Seems to me it's just Windows being Windows, loading things in different orders. It annoys me too when it changes, I click on something and it's not what I expected it to be because it's changed. The only other thing I can say is to perhaps run MS Bootvis, which will optimize your startup. It's primarily designed to speed up startup, but it may help keep things in order. Get it from here - choose a mirror from the list. Then, when it's installed, click trace --> optimize System. It will reboot your PC, and when it has finished booting a window will appear to say what it's doing - leave the PC whilst bootvis is running or it won't work. Then reboot again and see if that helps.Thanks. I will try that and report back in a day or two to report if this fixed it. Thank you for helping!You're welcome. It may help, it may not. It certainly won't hurt. If it doesn't help, I'm out of ideas.How many partitions do you have? Have you tried to REINSTALL Windows recently? Quote run MS Bootvis, which will optimize your startup. It's primarily designed to speed up startup, but it may help keep things in order. I ran the MS Bootvis, did the optimize, it rebooted and I let it restart and do its thing. When done I rebooted. Now it more than doubled the time it takes to bootup, and the magical changing startup is still occurring. As far as the number of partitions, I have three, my main partition, and two that Dell so lovingly provided in their INITIAL setup/screwup of my system...they are for their supports use if needed...I'm guessing. Thanks to those who offered help and advice!Looks like I'm stuck with this issue unless I want to try and reinstall everything. I think I can live with it for now. But, if you have a suggestion on something to try, let me know! Thanks.

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Hello - Every time I boot my computer, the startup process seems different each time. My desktop settings appear differently, the task bar programs appear in different order each time, and the system tray order is different. It also seems to recycle every forth or fifth boot and restarts the order these, "boot setups" for lack of a better term, are being loaded.

I run anti-spyware faithfully, anti-virus is installed and monitoring. I have scanned EVERYTHING over and over again. Run a registry cleaner. Ran PCOptimize. Every thing that I can think of I have ran to make sure that there isn't some outside force playing with my system. I have firewalls in place, and sites that test this say I am in "stealth mode" and cannot be seen or reached from the Internet unless I want to. It blows my mind why this is doing this.

Anyone got a clue as to what is going on? Thanks in advance for your help.This is normal.
It's just Windows loading them in a different order.
Right click the desktop and choose arrange icons by --> auto arrange, to get them into alphabetical order.
Does that help? Quote

This is normal.
It's just Windows loading them in a different order.
Right click the desktop and choose arrange icons by --> auto arrange, to get them into alphabetical order.
Does that help?

I think you are thinking about the desktop icons loading differently. I am talking about the programs that are loaded and running in the background. Their icons in the taskbar are in different order. What happens is that sometimes my anti-virus loads first and then my MS security center. When this happens, all is fine. But then in another bootup the security loads before the anti-virus program and I am told my system is at risk because there is no anti-virus program loaded. Other times my email TRIES to check the in-box before zone-alarm loads, and it can't get the mail, and another time ZA loads and then my email and all is fine. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to the way things are loading, and they do it randomly.

I will set my desktop settings to be one way. Save them, the system keeps them for a few boots, then I get something different for the desktop settings. I look at the place to change them, and it is set to what I wanted, but the sample is altered. I click another theme, and then back to the one I wanted, and it looks fine again.

Help me...I've got gremlins but all my scans say all is well. I have all the latest file updates for the scans, but nothing is found.Sorry, the first two lines refer to the background items.
They will be loaded in different ORDERS unless you use special software to change it, perhaps by applying a delay to each item.
How many items do you have set to start with your PC?
And how long does it take to boot?I have ZoneAlarm firewall, McAfee Anti-virus, MailwasherPro, and MacDrive6. Then there is the volume and the safely remove hardware icons. That is about it besides all the MS junk they make run at startup in the background. Boot time is reasonable, less than a minute...power-button to Internet.

If this helps anyone:

Dell Desktop 3200
2 GIG Ram
XP Home SP2
120 Gig internal HD
320GIg external HDNothing seems out of place to me then. Seems to me it's just Windows being Windows, loading things in different orders.
It annoys me too when it changes, I click on something and it's not what I expected it to be because it's changed.
The only other thing I can say is to perhaps run MS Bootvis, which will optimize your startup.
It's primarily designed to speed up startup, but it may help keep things in order.
Get it from here - choose a mirror from the list.
Then, when it's installed, click trace --> optimize System.
It will reboot your PC, and when it has finished booting a window will appear to say what it's doing - leave the PC whilst bootvis is running or it won't work.
Then reboot again and see if that helps.Thanks. I will try that and report back in a day or two to report if this fixed it.

Thank you for helping!You're welcome.
It may help, it may not.
It certainly won't hurt.
If it doesn't help, I'm out of ideas.How many partitions do you have? Have you tried to REINSTALL Windows recently? Quote

run MS Bootvis, which will optimize your startup. It's primarily designed to speed up startup, but it may help keep things in order.

I ran the MS Bootvis, did the optimize, it rebooted and I let it restart and do its thing. When done I rebooted. Now it more than doubled the time it takes to bootup, and the magical changing startup is still occurring.

As far as the number of partitions, I have three, my main partition, and two that Dell so lovingly provided in their INITIAL setup/screwup of my system...they are for their supports use if needed...I'm guessing.

Thanks to those who offered help and advice!Looks like I'm stuck with this issue unless I want to try and reinstall everything. I think I can live with it for now. But, if you have a suggestion on something to try, let me know!

Thanks.

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