MSCONFIG Tool: Troubleshooting problems on Windows XP
I was seeing some strange problems with my Windows XP machine. “My Computer” would hang for approximately 2 minutes before displaying the list of drives and “Send To” would not enumerate the items to send to (it would also cause explorer to hang for a while). This started only a couple of days ago and I could not determine what had changed to start causing the problems. Searching Microsoft's website for answers, I came across the MSCONFIG tool:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560
This tool will let you set how to startup your machine. Very nice and easy way to diagnose problems on yourWindows XP machine.
Eventually I narrowed the problem down to the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Service by using the MSCONFIG tool.