Boot and HD problem

[tlk70]

Hi amigos:

I've been experiencing a boot delay/idle problem the last couple of months, and heven;t been able to get rid of it...

My pc starts up normal, but right after the desktop appears and loads cacheman, and zone alarm, ans MSoffice shortcut bar, it appears it stops loading the rest of the programs, like Mcafee. it's like a 2-4 min idle then it loads mcafee..

During this idle, i can use most programs, but I can;t use winexp because i doesn;t show the content of the HD. I can;t use MSoutlookexpress or internet explorer, because i can;t it won;t get me online.

I also have a problem with my HD space dissapearing... somehow my disk space goes away. I lost 100 mb of disk space while writing this down. the longer i have my pc on, the more space i lose. When i get a low disk space warning, i restart my pc and i get back all the lost disk space. On Diskkeeper all the space i lose while my pc is on, appears like a huge red block of fragmented data, which i can only get rid of by restarting.

I'm running winXPpro, with mcafee antivirus, updated. 512 MB, 20 GB, 1.4GHz.

HELP.

[Cricket]

Have you scanned for spyware and trojans yet? You might also want to scan the system with CoolWebShredder.

Try going into the Windows Temp folder and delete everything in there.

I would get rid of McAfee and use something else like NOD32. It's a much better antivirus. McAfee has been known to case a lot of problems.

Cricket

[tlk70]

Got rid of mcafee...

installed and run ad-aware, apybot, hijackthis; also used regcleaner. neither problem gone.

I have some idle time (more than a couple of minutes) during startup, not a slow startup.

[edrod13]

Go over to www.trendmicro.com and use the housecall AV feature to check your machine for possible viruses. What about cacheman, isn't that a third party app for managing memory resources? If so you are better off letting windows manage your memory. HTH

Edrod13