Slow boot times

[Anonymous]

My mom's Gateway has suddenly start to take about five minutes to boot up, for some reason. Anyone know the reason/how to fix the problem?

[whoreable]

did u add any hardware like a network card or something?

[Anonymous]

Nope, no new hardware.

[MrAdventure]

scan for spyware :eek

check bootlog.txt for failures (do some searches to single out what failures are appropriate) :eek

eliminate excessive programs from start-up, too :eek

:eek

[AChimp]

If you're running Win 9x, you can run msconfig to control what loads during start-up.

It could also be a new program that you installed recently. :/