Taskbar frozen for 2 - 3 minutes upon start-up.

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Dick Tracy

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Whenever I start up my computer, loaded with XP, my taskbar is frozen for 2 - 3 minutes. When I mouse over it, the mouse turns into an hour glass and it's just... annoying.

I've had the problem for almost a year now. I've researched (via-Google) and find forum topics and message board posts with people having the same problem -- no solution, though. People have posted solutions, but they don't work.

No idea what it could be.

Any ideas?
 
[quote name='Strell']Dried ejaculate.[/QUOTE]

That messed up the A button on my GameCube, not my taskbar.
 
You've been putting up with this for a year? There's always one solution - reformat. It's good for your computer anyway.

Barring that, do you have the same problem in safe mode? If not, try cutting out your start-up programs and adding them back in one by one and see if one of them is the offender.

You can also use Ad-Aware to clean out your MRU lists - stuff like the "Recent" folder on the start menu tend to take a long time to load. Of course, on a healthy computer that should only take 10 seconds when you actually look into the folder.

I don't know what you're skill level with XP is, sorry if I'm talking beneath you.
 
[quote name='CokeCola']You've been putting up with this for a year? There's always one solution - reformat. It's good for your computer anyway.

Barring that, do you have the same problem in safe mode? If not, try cutting out your start-up programs and adding them back in one by one and see if one of them is the offender.

You can also use Ad-Aware to clean out your MRU lists - stuff like the "Recent" folder on the start menu tend to take a long time to load. Of course, on a healthy computer that should only take 10 seconds when you actually look into the folder.

I don't know what you're skill level with XP is, sorry if I'm talking beneath you.[/QUOTE]


No, no. You're not talking beneath me.

I've been avoiding reformatting, as I really, really don't want to. I don't have a removable harddrive for all of my crap... and there's a lot of it.

As far as Safe Mode goes, yes; I got the same problem. And I've actually limited my computer to having no start-up programs.

I've douched my computer of spyware and junk-n-gunk multiple times. I rarely have anything whenever I do.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
I had a problem similar to that. However, my taskbar wouldn't freeze, but my ethernet connection would take quite a while to load up. I assume it's a specific program during startup taking an especially long time. I don't remember which it is, however.
 
[quote name='Brak']Whenever I start up my computer, loaded with XP, my taskbar is frozen for 2 - 3 minutes. When I mouse over it, the mouse turns into an hour glass and it's just... annoying.

I've had the problem for almost a year now. I've researched (via-Google) and find forum topics and message board posts with people having the same problem -- no solution, though. People have posted solutions, but they don't work.

No idea what it could be.

Any ideas?[/QUOTE]
You either have too many programs set to start up with windows is why it is taking soo long or there is a program set to start up with windows that is having trouble .
I would go through as many as your software cd,s and reinstall everything yuo can from fresh to try and save you from a format
 
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