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Originally Posted by 95five-0
This sounds like it may be more of a software issue than a machine problem. Try going to the start menu click on run and type in msconfig and hit enter. Now goto the startup tab and disable everything from startup. If this fixes the problem then reenable programs like your anti-virus and firewall. Also you may want to check for viruses and spyware. Check out the links for spybot and house call in my signature. Let us know if this helps.
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Thanks for your tips. I did exactly as you said. Went in and disabled everything in startup and did a restart. It was still doing the same thing (delayed bootup) so I went back and checked if anything was still checked off in the startup items. I realized that although I disabled it,
ctfmon.exe still loaded. I disabled it in the startup list once again and did a restart only to find that IT LOADS AGAIN.
I looked up what that file does and read that it monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies.
Once I disabled that (
Start. Control Panel. Regional and Language Options. Languages TAB. Details BUTTON. Advanced TAB. "Turn off advanced text services" CHECK BOX) it was working great.
I restarted it about 20 times to make sure I was in the clear and I was convinced that the problem was solved. On the 21st try it delayed at bootup again grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
....this means that disabling all startup items is not the solution to this problem.
I went back in and allowed all startup items to see if that would change anything and now it starts up fine with all startup items enabled...the question is: for how long??? This makes absolutely no sense to me so I really can't figure out what the problem is.
Any thoughts??
Thanks