hesitation in windows

What kind of video card? that screen saver is very intensive, and needs a great video card I have a 64mb gforce, (and 512 mb ram installed) and it sometimes stutters on mine. Try running the windows update and update your drivers. as far as the drive light, go to start -->run and type msconfig, go tot he startup tab, and uncheck all but systray and explorer, reboot and see if the drive light comes on , if not, go back and recheck them one at a time untill it does, then you have the culprit

Do you have FindFast installed?  If so, this could be causing that.  Disable it - http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q199787

Stevenlewis. Systray and exploerer do not show up there. Are they called something else in XP?
As I previously said the hesitation is in the startup sound as well as the screensaver. I am not sure what kind of video card it is but I can find out.
Slink9, I do not find Findfast on my system.

what does show up in your startup tab?

on my way out the door but wanted to let you know the video card is a TNT2-M64 32MB SDR

If your TNT2-M64 32mb card is made by nVida, they have a collection of XP drivers free at their location... http://www.nvidia.com/ .  Something else to look at is the usage of your core memory, it is still 640K although managed well by XP.   I personally remove all stratup up porgrams from my startup folder, that are not absolutely necessary and make Icons for them on my desktop or in a desktop folder.

I am running a P-4 2.0 w/1gb memory, 24/10/40 CDRW and a DVD-R ROM, 2 60 gb 7200 ATA-100 HDD's and my Video Card is a G-Force 3 w/128mg DDR-SDRAM Ti200 nVida Vertro

The web site above does have drivers for the TNT2 cards, as long as it is nVida.  If another brand, I suggest going to their web site and checking for XP updates for your card.

Hey Wes, nice machine!!

Thanks Steve, beleive it or not, I acutally need this kind of power, and nothing can beat a machine you build yourself...all high quality stuff, and cheaper in the long run.  :-)

in startup the following shows;
hpsysdrv
KBD
Recguard
Rundll32
lgfxtray
hkcmd
Cpestart
wcmdmgrl
Activemenu
IAMAPP
navapw32
hpztsbo4
hphmon03
ps2
wkdetect
PCHbutton
aim
hp centerUI
HP center
Microsft office
Greetings Workshop

all of those are listed in your startup tab of msconfig?
OK, uncheck these
Microsft office
Greetings Workshop
aim
Activemenu
wcmdmgrl
hp centerUI
HP center

suggest you go here and find these programs and see if you need them to start or not
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm

Ok, still have not learned what all the programs are but have deleted or unchecked several from startup to no avail. ie (still having the same problem) At present loading at startup are the following;
hpsysdrv
KBD (keyboard shortcut)
Recguard (software recovery)
Rundll32 (dialup networking)
hkcmd
cpestart
IAMAPP (firewall)
Navapw32 (Norton virus protector)
hpztdbo4
hphmon03 (Monitors printers status)
ps2
wkdetect
PCHbutton (PC Health)
I have not been able to find all the programs at the site given above.

Has it always done this or is this a recent thing?

I do not see my last comment showing up here so here it goes again! I have deleted all that I know I can. Still left in startup are the following:
hpsysdrv
KBD (Keyboard shortcut)
Recguard (software recovery)
Rundll32 (dialup networking)
hkcmd
cpestart
IAMAPP (firewall)
navapw32 (Norton Virus protection)
hpztsbo4
hphmon03 (monitors printer status)
ps2
wkdetect
PCH button (PC health)
I could only find references to those references given.
I wonder if I can get rid of Rundll32 since I am on a DSL line with no need to actually dial up?
I am still having the same problem as I started with here.

I wonder if I can get rid of Rundll32
no
but I would go minimalistic to troubleshoot this
and uncheck these
Recguard (software recovery
cpestart
IAMAPP (firewall)
navapw32 (Norton Virus protection)
hpztsbo4
hphmon03 (monitors printer status)

I don't know where my last comments are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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something is still screwy here. I have to add a comment before I can see anything after Stevenlewis' on 3/16 at 6:54
At any rate I now have at startup the following and still have no change.
hpsysdrv
KBD
Rundll32
hkcmd
ps2
wkdetect
PCHbutton
I think this problem is long standing but I have only had this machine for a couple of months.

jmillsp
check you browser settings, tools, internet options, general tab, tem internet files, settings, check for newer versions of page, change it to automatically

any further suggestions on my (hesitation) going on. Remember the sound thing going on like it skips at startup too. Thanks. Do you think HP would help me. I just hate to take this computer to a technician then be without it for a couple of weeks.

my last comments are missing again!! I shouldn't have to change my browser setting to automatic if I sign in evertime should I. Hp is suggesting I do a restore and see if I still have the proble, I think this will do no good since the problem is long standing. I think it might be a hardware issue but what do I know.

If your browser caches the last page, and it thinks you have been here and no changes, then it will show the page from your cache

There is one way to tell, painin the buut though, pull the hard drive, put in a new one, install 98se and see
then youcan pull out that drive and put the xp drive back in

relative to browser. I think I might have that resolved in hitting the refresh button. At least it worked this time. Relative to the question on protocols, I am on a DSL line. Relative to contacting HP, he tells me to do a restore back to when I first got the machine (I really think it was doing it then too) but if I do that can I also do a restore from that point to the point I am now? In other words can I make everything back like it is now with a restore or will I have to reload everrything or what?

XP has a sytem restore, try that before using the hp restore disk. xp'restore should go back about 90 days, and you can get back to now
start -->programs -->accessories --.system tools -->system restore

Seems to me that this would be the way to go then if you are sure I can get back to todays point without having to reinstall everything. Are you 100% sure? I really do not want to lose everything I have now. Thanks

100% sure, just don't use the hp restore disk, but use the system restore feature of xp

info on system restore
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306084

Yes, I have already been to the aforementioned system restore site but I never saw anything about restoring it back to the way it was before you ran the restore in the first place. I will use the XP restore. I have no HP restore disk anyway. I have a feeling a better backup my tax data first though.

good idea, always backup
but with system restore, you can go forward and backwards

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Asta

For some reason Xp refused to let me go back to a previous point after a restore. Called HP and they had me do a more complete restore which seemed to get rid of my hesitation as well. Thanks

Thank you for returning and finalizing this and for including the ultimate solution, which can help others.
":0) Asta