Re: PC takes hour to load
My system has a common problem here. It takes long time to boot, but once it is fully turned on I can work on the same. It is slow but still responsive. I had tried to boot my system is Safe Mode. In that I had disabled a number of services from the start up. It looks to be bit faster. Second thing that I tried is defragging the drive. defragmentation give a bit boost your system hard drive. If your system is too old I will advice you to downgrade your OS. I am using a very light edition of Linux on another old Celeron system. It works fine. And also there is no issue of virus here.
Re: PC takes hour to load
There are number of third party cleaner which are better compared to other. If your system is working slow you can do nothing in that. System restore is only a temporary solution. There are some tips that I can provide you to make your system a bit faster on load, but I am not sure that it will help or not. If your pc was working fine before, then there can be some app or virus which has made your system slow. Try system restore once. Do that in Safe Mode. Or else the option that lies with you is going for the clean installation. Fresh installation will make your system better as there will be nothing installed. Only thing that you have to do is backup your system.
Re: PC takes hour to load
Does disk cleanup help you. This are some regular practice which can be done atleast to make the system stable for sometime. Virus thing afterwards. How your system is working in Safe Mode. Is it working fine or still very slow. My old system just died in the same way. It was too slow at start. Later on I found the issue was with my drive which almost stopped working at the end. You can remove the ram stick and change the slot. Or if you are having multiple rams then check one by one which of them is causing by booting your system individually.
Re: PC takes hour to load
First of it is better if you can mention the exact errors. As it is the only way by which you can find the right option to get rid of issue. There can be hardware and software fault. But a error gives you the right option to deal with the issue. Event Viewer is the only place where you can locate the logs to find the right error information. For bluescreen mostly the pc reboots on crash. You can disable automatic restart to find the error details. Proper error reports offer you better way of troubleshooting the issue of your system.
Re: PC takes hour to load
My system showed up a error related to some faulty application. I had installed some tweak too recently. The error appeared frequently now. I had removed that software but still sometime when I boot the error is on the screen. I am having a router connected to the system. The application helps to tweak settings of the router. The error does not appear if the router is turned off. There is not problem with the connectivity or net surfing. I had updated fresh drivers also. In device manager there is one hardware listed as unknown and has exclamation mark on it. How can I find that it is not proper.
Re: PC takes hour to load
I always keep a image disc with me. It helps me to restore my system in case of such problem. Because instead of wasting time for making those small changes it is much better to restore the system with system image. That works in more better way. It also consume less time and your system is ready to work. Another thing when you add any application check the system requirement. Because poor system requirement make it work slow. I found this at the time of OS upgrade.
Re: PC takes hour to load
I am having a Windows XP system. My system takes a long time to respond. Like if I open a Word file it takes too much time to start. The same happens for Excel and even paint brush. I had preform disk defragmentation which showed up some bad sectors in the system drive. I have one more drive attached. I a thinking to shift the os on that and keeping this one as extra storage space. But still I am a bit doubtful about Windows XP. This time going for Vista I think is much better. I have 512MB ram and a Dual Core system. Does it will work fine.