Re: OT: windows ADD / Remove programs too slow

de hummingbird 06/06/2006 02:53

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:56:45 +1000 'Annie'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:

>there is some wiered problem with my windows xp pro system for the last
>couple of days.
>The add / remove option of control panel is getting very slow to populate
>the list its about 10 - 15 mins
>
>I have no idea what is going on? it was very normal before just couple of
>seconds to open up the list
>Also, another porblem that i have realised is that suddenly 1 or 2 program
>set up is fired automatically
>without I touch it and it shows Windows is trying to set up program xxxx and
>it continues until i press cancel
>then it pops up after another min or so.

>Has anyone ever had such a issue? What can go wrong here?
>Any suggestion please?

As tf76 writes, you need to provide some info on what programs are
starting at boot up time. From there one can track them down to see
what's happening. Googling the program names can provide some help.
There are a number of other tools available too including Sysinternals
'process explorer' and 'autoruns' etc.

At the moment we know nothing except that you've slowed down.