Re: startup pausees for ages at "applying computer settings"
- From: "DL" <dl@spoofmail>
- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:48:10 +0100
'lost everything'
did you reinstall your mobo chipset drivers, and other hw drivers from manu
sites, NOT winupdate?
"NGShake" <NGShake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi! I've had Windows 2000 Professional installed on this machine for
years
> with no problems, then had my (80GB) hard drive die on me and lost
> everything. I've replaced it with a new 120GB drive, formatted it as one
> FAT32 partition and reinstalled Win2k. As far as I can tell, it is working
> perfectly apart from the fact that on startup it pauses at the "applying
> computer settings" stage for about 75 seconds. My guess would be that it's
> supposed to take about 15s, but is getting a 60s timeout on something -
but
> even if this is true, I have no idea what it could be, or how to fix.
>
> I am pretty sure that it is also pausing longer than expected (by perhaps
> 10s) at the very end of the previous loading screen (the screen with the
> white background and the Win2000 logo): when the progress bar reaches the
> end, it pauses for longer than it used to, although the blue activity bar
> above it continues to cycle normally.
>
> I have installed SP4 and other miscellaneous updates - no effect. Despite
> looking extensively online and through the Microsoft KB articles, I can't
> find anything of relevance. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nic
.
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