Re: After SP2 intall - it is very slow to reboot and shutdown

From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:22:31 -0700

Maurice wrote:

> After doing a clean install of Windows XP, I downloaded
> SP2 and installed it. I now have very slow reboot and
> shutdown times (reboot is 90seconds and shutdown is 70
> seconds). The periods where it is slow is between the
> time when the reboot is initiated and the reboot actually
> accurs and the CPU actually shutting down by itself after
> initializing the shutdown. This never happened with SP1
> and both were very fast before. Has anyone experienced
> this and what might be the problem? Should I do a clean
> install again to see if some other problem has occured?
>
> Thanks,
> Maurice

Defrag the hard drive. It will take at least three rebboots for the
optimization routines in XP to run and speed things up. The prefetch
folder will be rebuilt after you open each program a few times. That
should speed things up too.

If after all that, it is still slow, then use clean boot troubleshooting
to see what programs might be the culprit. Using this on my system I
found one program loading at boot that was slowing things. I
uninstalled/reinistalled and now back to 30 second boots.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

Shutdown Troubleshooter
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

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