Guest jimj Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4700 pent 4 with 1 gig of ram and windows xp home edition. When I attempt to log off, it will take about 3 minutes after I click the turn off computer icon to get to the restart/turn off screen and an addition two minutes to acctually shut down. When I restart the next time some of the desktop icons will rearrainge themselves. Are these problems related or are they seperate issues. Can you help? JIMJ
Guest tempgal Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Re: computer takes 5 minutes to reboot When I had that problem it was due to an infestation of malware. I needed both Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy and maybe a few other programs which I can't remember now to thoroughly clean things up. "jimj" <jimj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3531DF1E-8A6B-4665-A38D-6E3DBDD0BF8E@microsoft.com... >I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4700 pent 4 with 1 gig of ram and >windows > xp home edition. When I attempt to log off, it will take about 3 minutes > after I click the turn off computer icon to get to the restart/turn off > screen and an addition two minutes to acctually shut down. When I restart > the next time some of the desktop icons will rearrainge themselves. Are > these problems related or are they seperate issues. Can you help? > > JIMJ
Guest Rock Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: computer takes 5 minutes to reboot "jimj" wrote >I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4700 pent 4 with 1 gig of ram and >windows > xp home edition. When I attempt to log off, it will take about 3 minutes > after I click the turn off computer icon to get to the restart/turn off > screen and an addition two minutes to acctually shut down. When I restart > the next time some of the desktop icons will rearrainge themselves. Are > these problems related or are they seperate issues. Can you help? See these links: http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm Resources to help troubleshoot shutdown problems in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308029/en-us Malware Removal http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware THE PARASITE FIGHT Finding, Removing & Protecting Yourself From Scumware http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm Richard Harper’s Guide to Cleaning Pests http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
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