systray.exe causes system slowdown

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D_Dorshimer - 14 Jul 2005 00:36 GMT

I am working on a Gateway laptop that has a fresh load of Windows 98se. At
startup the system slows down to a crawl and it is very difficult to get
anything done with it, including shutting down.

If you go into msconfig and prevent systray.exe from starting then
everything is groovy and works fine.

Is there a fix for this? It seems to me that the systray service needs to
start for the computer to work properly but in this instance the computer is
unusuable.

Please advise

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glee - 14 Jul 2005 04:56 GMT

Systray is not actually required. Disable it and see how it goes.

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> I am working on a Gateway laptop that has a fresh load of Windows 98se. At
> startup the system slows down to a crawl and it is very difficult to get
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> Please advise

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guesswhat - 14 Jul 2005 05:13 GMT

Create a bootlog and use bla.exe to find out if there is anything which
takes a long time to load.

Try disabling all other process except for systray and see if it's still a
problem. If your system runs fine with only systray running, you'll need to
enable each process one at a time to see what's cause a problem.

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