Please help. It takes about 2.5 minutes for the control
panel on my pc to open fully. It takes about 15-20 seconds
for it to appear, then the rest of the time for the icons
to appear. I've defrag'd my pc fully to see if it would
run faster, but its still the same.

Any ideas?

Re: Control Panel by war17

war17
Tue Jan 13 15:49:00 CST 2004

Check the files for errors. Select Start > Run and type SFC

Check the registry for errors. Select Start > Run and type scanreg /fix

Run scandisk in thorough mode. This may take awhile.
Perform a Defrag.

Run an online RAM test www.simmtester.com.

Check for virus and adware

Housecall Online Scan
http://housecall.antivirus.com
or
Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

SpyBot S&D searches your harddisk for so-called spy- or adbots;
http://security.kolla.de/
or
Adaware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

--
Warren
For additional help, post in
http://groups.msn.com/HelpforInternetExplorerorWindowsME/homepage

<Davyred@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:0d6801c3d9ff$1a473cf0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Please help. It takes about 2.5 minutes for the control
> panel on my pc to open fully. It takes about 15-20 seconds
> for it to appear, then the rest of the time for the icons
> to appear. I've defrag'd my pc fully to see if it would
> run faster, but its still the same.
>
> Any ideas?



Re: Control Panel by Noel

Noel
Wed Jan 14 18:46:29 CST 2004

Warren - this is ME, so there's no SFC!<g>

--
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"war17" <war@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:1008puihmos1td8@corp.supernews.com...
> Check the files for errors. Select Start > Run and type SFC
>
> Check the registry for errors. Select Start > Run and type scanreg /fix
>
> Run scandisk in thorough mode. This may take awhile.
> Perform a Defrag.
>
> Run an online RAM test www.simmtester.com.
>
> Check for virus and adware
>
> Housecall Online Scan
> http://housecall.antivirus.com
> or
> Symantec Security Check
> http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
>
> SpyBot S&D searches your harddisk for so-called spy- or adbots;
> http://security.kolla.de/
> or
> Adaware
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
>
> --
> Warren
> For additional help, post in
> http://groups.msn.com/HelpforInternetExplorerorWindowsME/homepage
>
> <Davyred@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:0d6801c3d9ff$1a473cf0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> > Please help. It takes about 2.5 minutes for the control
> > panel on my pc to open fully. It takes about 15-20 seconds
> > for it to appear, then the rest of the time for the icons
> > to appear. I've defrag'd my pc fully to see if it would
> > run faster, but its still the same.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>