30 min to boot

For no apparent reason my computer took 30 min to boot and lost my monitor driver which I reinstalled okay. Norton AV came up on next long reboot and said a program was trying to change my system settings and it (NAV) was going to reset things for me so I said okay. Next boot 2 DLLs would not load and gave me an error message but went ahead and booted when I said OK. Now everything seems okay after it boots but it still takes 30 min to boot up. Help please.

 

Now the Windows XP start button doesn't work to shut down the computer. Whenever I push it and select either shut down or restart nothing happens. It just goes back to the normal windows screen and everything works fine. I ran Norton SystemWorks and it says everything is okay. This is really strange.

 

Okay now I really give up. I shut it down using the power off feature and restarted and everything seems to work fine now. Even the shut down and restart works. I wish I knew what was going on but at least it seems to be okay for the moment so I'll not complain too much. Thanks.

 

A question and suggestion or two.

Do you have NAV set to inoculate the Boot sector ?

And do you have the Virus checking set to Yes in the BIOS.

If so change them both to NO.

Norton set to Inoculate will stop the machine from setting the Boot sector up properly.

BillyBob