Re: Slow XP Boot
From: John Blaustein (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:32:34 -0800
Bill,
I'm no expert, just an end-user, so forgive me if none of this applies....
1) I have a firewire external card reader. When it is plugged into my XP
Home PC, Windows takes an extra minute or two to shut down. At first, I
thought the system had frozen because it just sat there. I discovered that
if the firewire device was unplugged, XP shutdown very quickly. Now, I
leave the reader unplugged. (I don't remember if the card reader had an
effect on startup time.)
2) I recently switched from DSL to cable. The DSL used fixed IP addresses.
Cable uses dynamic IP addresses. I may be imagining this, but it seems like
XP now takes longer to load -- stopping longer on the logo screen with the
progress bar -- now that my network needs to assign an IP address every time
I boot up.
3) Again, this may be my imagination, but when I boot with one of my Epson
USB printers turned on, booting seems to take longer (than if I boot with
the printers turned off.)
I'd certainly try null's suggestion of updating all device drivers. Since
you already have SP2, it sounds like Windows is in good shape.
John
"Bill Maxwell" <sam@nodamnspam.com> wrote in message
news:%23iu%23qSY$EHA.1904@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I've run every spyware program (spybot, adaware, MS Antispyware). I've
> scaned with Norton and Trendmicro's housecall. And came up with nothhing.
> I've formated my machine about 2 months ago and that didn't solve the
> problem. The only thing running on startup is Norton Antivirus.
>
> "John Blaustein" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23n72miX$EHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Carl,
>>
>> Have you tried running the new MS AntiSpyware (BETA)? Here's the link:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
>>
>> John
>>
>> "Carl lackey" <clackey3@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23kBFBBX$EHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> Bill Maxwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> When windows is loading the little scroll bar starts out at a normal
>>>> speed but about 6 seconds into loading it slows down to a crawl. I can
>>>> hit any keyboard key once, sometimes twice and then I goes right back
>>>> to normal and loads the GUI within 2 secs. If I don't press anything it
>>>> takes almost 90 more seconds to fully load. I've gone as far as
>>>> reloading XP and loading service pack two with all current updates. Any
>>>> ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Note: All three hard drives are 7200 rpm with 8mb cache. Windows drive
>>>> is 120gb, slave 180gb, secondary master 200gb. With 2 512mb memory
>>>> sticks which I have tried replacing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If booted the XP CD to "Repair" your system, it is most likely that any
>>> ad-ware, spyware or trojan you have is still there. The registry is
>>> still interacts and when the trojan starts up.
>>>
>>> Three of 4 machines brought to me in the last week have been infected,
>>> and in each case, one of the following exists:
>>>
>>> 1. Adware removal tool found it and said it was removed, but a re-scan
>>> finds it still there.
>>>
>>> 2. Adware removal tools and anti-virus do NOT find it.
>>>
>>> 3. Trojan has more than one component that "watches" each other, and if
>>> one gets killed or removed, the other ones restart it. These are really
>>> tough to handle.
>>>
>>> Carl
>>
>>
>
>
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