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Colonel Sanders · 12-12-2001, 10:40 PM

I'm pretty sure the PC in my sig should be able to run Win2K, and it can(sorta). I don't have much in my system tray(I think thats the right name for the all the icons right next to the clock). All I have is WinZip, display properties, my sound options and 2 McAfee icons soon to be deleted as soon as I setup a firewall. However, when I start my computer, everything appears to have loaded quickly(all icons are there, mouse no longer has hour glass...), but I have to wait about a minute before I can do anything, or else it, while, isn't pretty. Doesn't launch program and I get ingorant and eventually launch 20 copies of the program or lock up my PC(whicever comes first, usually the later). What should I do?

Logan

12-12-2001, 10:40 PM	#1
Colonel Sanders Resident AMD enthusiast Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,445	slow start-up I'm pretty sure the PC in my sig should be able to run Win2K, and it can(sorta). I don't have much in my system tray(I think thats the right name for the all the icons right next to the clock). All I have is WinZip, display properties, my sound options and 2 McAfee icons soon to be deleted as soon as I setup a firewall. However, when I start my computer, everything appears to have loaded quickly(all icons are there, mouse no longer has hour glass...), but I have to wait about a minute before I can do anything, or else it, while, isn't pretty. Doesn't launch program and I get ingorant and eventually launch 20 copies of the program or lock up my PC(whicever comes first, usually the later). What should I do? Logan __________________ Main: Gigabyte GA-770T USB3 - Phenom II 840 - 4GB DDR3 - Radeon 5750 1GB HTPC: MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - Athlon II 250 - 4GB DDR2 - Radeon 5670 512MB HTPC: Zotac GeForce 6100E-E - Athlon X2 5800+ - 4GB DDR2 "Play a Windows CD backwards and you'll hear satanic voices, thats nothing, play it forwards and it installs Windows."