Laptop issues

[everdred12a]

Okay, I have NO idea what's going on here, so I'll do my best to explain what happened and what I did before it happened.

The problem: When I start windows, it will load to the point where it shows my background, then stop for about 10-15 minutes, then finally load. After it loads, I get a warning saying that the Windows Firewall is off, and when I try to turn it on, I get an error. And, despite the fact that windows acknowledges a wireless signal, I'm unable to go online for some reason.

What I did before the problem: I did my weekly runs of Ad-Aware and Spybot, along with a virus scan that I do monthly using my virus protection program, AVG Free.

The only reason I'm on right now is because I used the system restore to go back to a month ago.

This isn't the first time this has happened, this is the second. I think I ran AVG the last time this happened as well.

If anyone can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Agent Anderson]

Start>Run>"MSCONFIG"
look in the "Startup" tab for anything suspicious; athough it's hard for me to impart the wisdom of knowing what that means. If you want, you could list everything in the list, & I could see for myself.

[everdred12a]

Okay, thank you xD I'll list them:

SynTPEnh
igfxtray
hkcmd
igfxpers
jusched
stsystra
WLTRAY
quickset
DVDLauncher
RealPlay
tfswctrl
issch
daemon (this is for a program I run called Daemon Tools)
IMJPMIG
TINTSETP
TINTSETP (yeah, it's there twice, but the file path under the "Command" column is different)
avgcc
iTunesHelper
qttask
netWaiting
DSAgent
msmsgs
bittorrent
Digital Line Detect
Microsoft Office

[Felix]

Sorry, I can't really help you aside what Anderson said :/ What I did was unchecked everything in the startup tab, because I don't use most of the stuff at start-up anyway and I can open the program if I need to use it, and that seemed to make the computer start-up a lot faster. Also, if you defragment the hard-drive every week or so it should help.. I think.

[everdred12a]

Yeah, I should probably defrag. I haven't done that in awhile. I'll try it and get back to you guys later.

[Agent Anderson]

(Sorry for my forgetting to check this thread 'till now)

The bittorrent one is the only one that seems suspicious to me. Are you a bittorrent user? If not, it might me some spyware that has a false name.

Don't uncheck everything in the list (some might be needed for virus-scanners & stuff,) but disabling some things like realplayer & itunes should defenitely help startup times.

[JesusFreak84]

Defragging is highly overrated. About the only time you might benefit from it is if you download torrents alot.

[everdred12a]

Defragging is highly overrated. About the only time you might benefit from it is if you download torrents alot.

lawl, I've only downloaded torrents twice, and only one was on this comp.

Just remembered, I do have Bittorrent set up to begin running on startup. I guess I forgot about it since it starts in the tray (or whatever that thing is called)