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 Churning at start up |
| nvogen |
| Posted: April 30th, 2006, 11:51am |
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When I start the computer it generally churns for several minutes. Often I will have to sign in to MSN Messenger manually. I run XP, Service Pack 2, AdAware, CrapCleaner and SpyWare Blaster. MSN is my ISP. MSN has given me many suggestions about this problem, but none of them work. I leave my computer on all the time (not on line). The problem is worse on the first sign-in of the day but is always present. I keep up on cleaning the machine including disk clean-up and defragging. Any thoughts? |
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| jrv8374 |
| Posted: April 30th, 2006, 7:09pm |
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For what it's worth, my computer does a lot of churning too when I boot it up. But I also have a whole slew of programs that begin running during the boot process, so I don't think, in my case, that it's a problem or an indication of anything "wrong." Eventually it stops and everything is fine. |
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| nvogen |
| Posted: May 7th, 2006, 11:18am |
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I went to msconfig and changed the start-up from selective to normal. This seemed to help but it still does a lot of churning. Contrary to my reply, I don't have a lot of programs and I don't think it is normal. |
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| lankheet |
| Posted: May 7th, 2006, 5:22pm |
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You may have a hard drive that is getting close to failure. |
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| nvogen |
| Posted: May 8th, 2006, 12:18pm |
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Is there a test for a failing hard drive? |
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| usmaniv |
| Posted: May 10th, 2006, 11:52am |
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| dlwolff0 |
| Posted: May 11th, 2006, 2:03am |
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Most hard drive manufacturers have programs on their web site, you can download for free, that will determine the condition of the hard drive. |
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| mrobto |
| Posted: May 15th, 2006, 12:48am |
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Hello,nvogen,the churning is probabbly caused by the Indexing Services, I had the same problem and went to msconfig.exe and disabled it , I have found that service is suposed to help you find files faster ,but I don't see any difference after disabling it and the churning is gone. if that service is running you will always have that churning noise even at idle. good luck mrobto |
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| nvogen |
| Posted: May 16th, 2006, 11:52am |
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Thanks, mrobto. I did as you suggested and most of the churning stopped. I still have to sign in to MSN messenger manually at times. |
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| quinland |
| Posted: May 29th, 2006, 5:06am |
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I have a similar problem, but think it is due to loading ZoneAlarm, Webroot Spysweeper, Symantec Anti-Virus and the Automatic Update for WinXPPro. These programs 'phone home' at startup, and take some time to load.
Does anyone else have a similar problem with these programs? |
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