Cannot startup laptop?

My laptop startup is remarkably slow, takes give or take a few 10-20 minutes to load. However, I own already defragged, disk cleaned, full Norton 2007 virus scan, Spybot, AutoRun, removed some unwanted startup items at the statup tab and it is still very slow. Also, at times I cannot even start it up - I in recent times see a black screen when I press the power button, but the laptop is 'on' because I hear the harddrive whir. I run on Winodws XP, 80GB harddrive, 512MB. What is the problem?

Answer:
I've never hear a laptop starting up so slow.what processor is your laptop? It could be the processor, like pentium4 or celeronM or the most recent models from intel>>Core 2 Duo. If the processor is slow then that's the problem. If you want to fix that, steal it to a computer repair shop and ask for a processor upgrade. (1.6ghz and up are perfect).

I had some problems on my laptop too. The programs i run on it nouns up very terrifically slow. So, one day i established to factory restore everything. And what do you know, it ran faster. You can try factory restore beforehand spending any money on it.
reinstall windows
DUDE!!!! norton 2007 virus scan douse not work its a keylogger i used to enjoy something like that and it be a pop up for me unistall that spybot no idea autorun no concept
get spyhunter or eztrust these work i own it for computer and its fast. Just restart window xp and then be secure.
might be that you don't have satisfactory RAM or that you have to plentiful programs that start with window there are deeply of different reasons I would try restoring window or get it looked at by a computer repair shop and I individual use windows firewall and I've never have virus problems and my computer works great
Hello,

Try going into msconfig and disable everything and add programs one at a time until get slow..
Also, those unwanted start up programs i suggest you F8 and get to the command prompt and delete the profile from their locations> then travel back within windows and start Regedit and find and delete any associations to those unwanted programs..
You might want to run sfc/scannow to see if any window files were corrupted..
Your OS could be messed up. Try this repair procedure for XP:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/pr...
You can click start-----click run-----type msconfig------click startup tab,then you can uncheck programes that dont involve to run at startup.Then click ok to exist..And you also can go stop by http://computerspeed.info to download a speedup software.

Good luck!
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