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Help needed with startup problems
I'm having problems on system startup on my Win 7 i7 8gb Mesh PC, purchased 3 months ago.
There are 2 distinct types of problems, they are intermittent so they don't happen every time, but they may be related:-
1. Windows comes up, but some of the desktop icons are just the 'placeholders' rather than the proper icons. The mouse remains as an hourglass, and the PC is completely un-responsive, task manager does not come up either. It remains like this forever and the only thing for it is to switch off and on again.
2. Windows comes up and all looks fine until you try to start any software. the system then freezes for about 5 or 6 minutes, and then eventually comes up, and everything works fine.
There us nothing in the event log apart from a few timeouts.
Because of the problems, I tend to use the system 'standby' mode most of the time instead of switching off properly.
When my system is up and running, everything runs beautifully and fast too. I don't have any little yellow icons in the device manager.
Any ideas what I can do to track down the problems?
Thanks,
Bernie