Re: xp pro reinstall

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:58:37 GMT

Defrag the drive, then check System Event log for any errors. SP2
after Layout.Ini/Prefetch is rebuilt should be as fast as it was before
SP2 was applied. From your description it sounds like a Service is
not starting or out-of-sequence and causing the excessive startup
time. For really comprehensive defrag, get a 30-day trial of Raxco's
Perfect Disk 2000 (Version 6) & do both an Off-line and GUI
based defrag. Read the help on setting options.
I think you'll like the results. Download PDisk from:
http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/perfectdisk2000_download.cfm

"Silvergrey" <silvergrey@charter.net> wrote in message
news:er3yLxEkEHA.3844@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Yesterday I installed SP2. The system seemed OK until this morning. When
> I
> turned it on the BIOS (Intel) splash screen appeared for it's normal 2
> seconds, the screen then goes black for about 10 seconds and then the BIOS
> splash screen reappears - this sequence would loop forever unless I stop
> it.
> It appeared there was a missing or corrupt file that the boot needed. I
> booted from the XP CD and chose repair XP. Now my boot works but the boot
> time increased from 45 seconds to over 2 minutes and the entire system is
> dead-dog slow. After I get a desktop the system takes nearly another
> minute
> to load Norton AV 2004, make my network (cable internet) connect and to
> put
> the volume icon in the tray (which, by the way, only appeared with the
> first
> boot after the OS reinstall. Now it doesn't appear unless I go to Sounds
> and
> uncheck then recheck the Place Volume Icon on the taskbar box.
>
> My experience (xp home and/or pro), having installed these OSs numerous
> times on quite a few different systems, is that repairing, or installing,
> over an existing version ALWAYS produces the same bloated slowdowns. Is
> this slowdown/bloating just an XP thing on overinstalling?
>
>

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