I am having issues on my Toshiba Satellite A200 Laptop that's running on Vista Home Premium (32bit) 1.73 Ghz and 2GB Ram. What's happening is that when I turn on computer on, and like always, goes there to booting process like this and all is well until that disappears and it hangs there on a black screen. It takes about a minute for my cursor to show (with the black screen still there), then another minute for the startup tune to go off and I don't get that blue welcome screen. A minute later again it tries to load explorer but that takes forever to load (around 2 minutes). Icons show up a few at a time, desktop background takes forever to show up. Once everything looks like it's loaded the system freezing every so often for instance opening my computer or Firefox takes forever and freezes. Eventually it does load and I can browse WebPages but freezes in between.
My system doesn't normally run that slow since I maintain it really well. I defrag every so often and use cleaners to get rid of registry errors. It usually takes about less than a minute to load my system from top to bottom.
I've tried something on my own like using Last Good Config a couple times and booting into safe mode. Safe mode boots up fast and does not take that much time so that eliminates hardware issues (at least I think). I've when through my startup to see if there are programs that shouldn't be starting up (through msconfig) and nothing seems to be out of place. Also now that I have this problem, I unplugged anything that's connected to a USB port but still no use.
However this might be what caused this issue. The pass 2 days I've kept my computer in sleep mode, because I need quick access. Also, I plugged in a USB flash drive and wanted to load a picture but the computer completely hung for a good 20minutes and after that I've decided to shut it off through the power button (I don’t think it was indexing as there wasn’t much to index). Now after that, the problem started to occur. I'm thinking that a system file is corrupted? Did some Google and people pretty much do what I did. There is something else I found that I didn’t try which does boot from VISTA cd and use bootrec.exe commands. Did anyone have the same problem before or know a way to fix this? Thanks in advanced.
My system doesn't normally run that slow since I maintain it really well. I defrag every so often and use cleaners to get rid of registry errors. It usually takes about less than a minute to load my system from top to bottom.
I've tried something on my own like using Last Good Config a couple times and booting into safe mode. Safe mode boots up fast and does not take that much time so that eliminates hardware issues (at least I think). I've when through my startup to see if there are programs that shouldn't be starting up (through msconfig) and nothing seems to be out of place. Also now that I have this problem, I unplugged anything that's connected to a USB port but still no use.
However this might be what caused this issue. The pass 2 days I've kept my computer in sleep mode, because I need quick access. Also, I plugged in a USB flash drive and wanted to load a picture but the computer completely hung for a good 20minutes and after that I've decided to shut it off through the power button (I don’t think it was indexing as there wasn’t much to index). Now after that, the problem started to occur. I'm thinking that a system file is corrupted? Did some Google and people pretty much do what I did. There is something else I found that I didn’t try which does boot from VISTA cd and use bootrec.exe commands. Did anyone have the same problem before or know a way to fix this? Thanks in advanced.