Unexpected delays for simple operations, with hard drive activity - déjà vu (see thread "System32 folder will not open").
Same suggestion - chkdsk /r. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Macklin Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: programs taking longer to load A few months ago, I got a Pentium D CPU 3.20GHz with to 2 gig memory and a 250gig SATA drive. It's worked great untill yesterday. Now sometimes when I click on a shortcut or exe for anythingor even just the start button it will run the hard drive light for about a minute before loading the program or bring up the start menu. Then all is fine untill it does it again. I've run AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, ad-aware, and zone alarm pro's spyware scan. No spyware other than the usual cookies. I noted that when AVG started it's daily scan, zone alarm warns me that it's trying to make changes to the hosts file. As I now block the sites another way that I was blocking the the hosts file, I just renamed it. That gets the host file a reading error in the scan log, but no zone alarm pop-up. I tried going in to services.msc and seeing if there was anything I could shut down, but at first I was getting access denide message when applying any change to any service. Thirty minutes later I tried again and it lets me change start type no problem. The only thing new is a game. I downloaded a free 14 day trial for Dark Age of Camolot. The first download I tried didn't work. It would install but when the game tried to run it's updater, it wouldn't update saying to many files missing or corrupt. I uninstalled and deleted that directory. I then used the download my wife used that DID work on her computer and worked on mine as well. Any suggestions on what I might try next? -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
