The desktop icons and taskbar are at least three minutes to load when I start the computer.

Original title: problem with the desktop icons

All of a sudden when I start my computer, the icons on the desktop and icons at the bottom of the clock of the take at least three minutes to load, and before that time, they used to load in a few seconds.  Also, I have no problem with the computer start.  Any help to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.

According to the specifications of your system, hard drives on your system are disks IDE (not the SATA drives).

Sometimes the Interface IDE mode can change from DMA mode to PIO mode and when that happens, things sudden. run very slowly, but it is easy to check and adjust if you need to.

Here's how:

If you are using IDE drives, use Device Manager to check the channel Transfer Mode IDE is set to something like DMA if available (depends on your hardware) and the slow PIO mode.
  
Don't forget: PIO is the slowest, DMA is faster.

It is easy to check and usually easy to fix and the mode would not have changed in itself, so if she changed to PIO, change it to DMA, and then understand why it changed and fix it.

To launch the Device Manager console, click Start, run and enter in the box:

%SystemRoot%\System32\devmgmt.msc

Click OK.

Expand the section controller IDE / ATA to see your IDE channels. Each right click and choose Properties for each channel that has a tab advanced settings, determine the Transfer Mode. There are usually 4 channels to check in a desktop computer, maybe less for laptops.

Faster selection will always be a kind of selection DMA (usually: DMA DMA5, UDMA, etc.).  If it is PIO, change it to DMA.
  
If you are unsure of what you see after return of help and advice.
  
If you make settings, restart and check the settings again to make sure that any change stick.
  
What may have caused the change?
  
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/817472

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