Re: SP-2 and much slower reboot time

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From: Bill Cotter (mail_at_no-thanks.spam)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:38:47 +0900

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:23:43 -0500, in article
<db22i0h78d279qno8mjmv09dbvogash4m9@4ax.com>, Les Herrman wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:54:10 +0800, "Trog Dog"
><tRrEoMgOdVoEgC_AaPuS@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Bill Cotter" <mail@no-thanks.spam> wrote in message
>>news:41209351$0$25415$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com...
>>> SP-2 has really lengthened reboot time. Fortunately I don't reboot very
>>> often,
>>> but this is now quite time consuming. To be specific, the time from the
>>> BIOS
>>> screen to the desktop wallpaper is about the same, and it's always been
>>> rather
>>> snappy. But the time now from the first appearance of the wallpaper to a
>>> "settled state" where one can actually begin using the system (hard drive
>>> light
>>> begins to go intermittent at least, instead of almost always on) has gone
>>> from
>>> about the 30-60 second range up to something approaching nearly 5 full
>>> minutes.
>>> It takes *forever* to get finished loading and settled down now -- on a
>>> box
>>> with a P-4 2.53 GHz and a gigabyte of RAM.
>>>
>>> I use my own firewall and AV, and I do my updates manually; am I okay to
>>> disable the Windows Firewall and Security Center services? I think I have
>>> no
>>> real need for them, and they obviously take resources. My wife shares the
>>> cable with me, but we don't use ICS, we have a router.
>>>
>>> Anything else anyone can think of to speed up the startup process (more
>>> services I can kill off)? I do run a lot of stuff at boot, but I have the
>>> resources for it, and it was never this slow prior to SP-2. This is not a
>>> figment of my imagination; this is *really* significantly slower now.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>Same here, I use 3rd party firewall and have 3 different AV's loaded
>>although only one is resident, I wonder if its the security centre scanning
>>these and seeing if they are active?
>>
>
>
>I didnt see any slow down whatsoever. In fact I think mine actually
>boots a little bit quicker.
>
>Course I do have everything in the security center turned off as I do
>have a third party firewall and AV. And I dont want auto updates on.

Same here with Security service and Firewall service *disabled* (and no auto
updates). But it doesn't improve the load time after the desktop appears. The
boot to the desktop has always been quick. But no longer does the desktop mean
"in 30 seconds or so".

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