Yesterday morning, I got up to check my websites, and mail. I usually leave my computer on all the time. But outlook seemed to have gotted sort of error overnight. It shutdown. I went to re-start it, and then my computer just rebooted on it’s own. I run Windows XP which is generally pretty solid. The computer was taking forever rebooting. It seemed to be stuck. I unplugged it, and then plugged it back in. It eventually booted, but as soon as I tried to do anything, it started rebooting again. It still rebooted slowly, and would eventually try to re-boot in the middle of the boot.
This was making me nervous, as this is the computer that I build  and run my websites from. This computer helps make me money! Fortunatly I do have a laptop, so I was able keep working.
I enventually booted it up into safe mode. This seemed to work fine. I took the opportunity to  backup some stuff over to my external hard drive.
I deleted some big stuff, and ran a disk cleanup. This didn’t fix the problem. I rebooted the computer into safe mode again. I used system restore as this has saved me from computer problems  in the past. I restored it to a couple days earlier. I rebooted my computer, and finally it rebooted.
Now I have been working cleaning off software that I don’t use. I am going to try to get rid of a lot of the stuff in my startup. I think that would help my machine boot faster, and run better. I hate it when every program supplier thinks their stuff is so important that they have to put junk in the startup just so their stuff will start faster.

Posted by Rob in Computers on May 22nd, 2006 | No Comments