HP has 24 hour online chat tech support. Maybe check with them. As well a
client of mine had problems with their "boot optimizer" program. They told
me it did not have to run and was not required. Maybe check if that is an
issue.
Do you know how to use the MS configuration utility to turn things off? It
can be done there.
In answer to the question if things needed to be reloaded...the answer is a
RESOUNDING YES. If you do a recovery, then EVERYTHING is lost including
all your data, documents, etc.
That should be used only as a last resort.
Sam
At 09:50 PM 04 8, 2008, you wrote:
>My HP media center PC takes about 5 minutes to boot up. Seems to be a
>software issue, can't find anything with hardware - removed all pci cards,
>all memory except 1 stick, disconnected cd drives and usb items.
>Tried different single memory stick as well. Onboard video in use instead
>of video pci card, standard crt monitor, mouse and keyboard. HD has been
>scanned by latest symantec AV from website, ran spybot and ad-aware,
>cleaned and defragged HD, 60% free space. When booted in safe mode,
>seems to run normally. When booted normally, very slow. Via task
>manager, shut down everything that wasn't loaded in safe mode, still very
>slow - we're talking 3-4 minutes to open any program, any type of mouse
>click. Reset bios to default settings. Only thing that seems odd is the
>pnp setting for the os is set to no, bios configures pnp with this setting
>rather than the os..
>If I were to try software repair option from the hp recovery console,
>would I have any problems repairing the windows xp mce software? Would
>all the patches and updates already in place need to be reloaded? Any
>other suggestions I can try?
>Paul Hachmeyer
>
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