RE: Slow bootup
From: Jeremily (Jeremily_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:19:02 -0800
You might check all the things in your Services that start up automatically,
also programs that start up in your System Tray.
For Services, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Many
things that you don't need can be set to Manual rather than Automatic Start,
if you're not sure what something is try a Google search on it, see if it's
something you want running or not. If you don't mind trying things, try and
see if it hurts anything, you can always restart it later.
For Startup items, go to Run, type "msconfig" and hit enter. Click the
Start Up tab all the way to the right, then uncheck boxes on all the things
you don't want starting. When you restart, check the box that says "Don't
give me this message again" to avoid running the MSCONFIG utility on startup,
and you should be running leaner.
The other option that comes to mind is if the virus, or some adware, left
some .DLL files registered, but removed them. Windows will search for the
file and not find it. This can slow you down a lot, but usually you will get
an error, "Could not find *.dll" or something equally obvious. If this is
the case, you have to unregister that .dll via the dos-prompt console, you
can find directions in a DOS primer if you need to do that.
Hope this helps.
"Tony MS" wrote:
> I have the following problem.
>
> My system takes around 2 mins to boot up. According to bootvis, the system
> is doing Logon+Serv from +25 to +108 secs, with no disk or cpu activity
> after around +30. Also, another pc on the LAN discloses no network activity
> in this period.
>
> System is XP. It used to load ok; then I had a virus, needed to do a big
> repair, and am now back on SP1. This problem is the one residue of my virus
> problems. I am pretty sure I've got rid of all viruses and other pests -
> I've used AVG, Trend, Stinger and Ad-Aware, in both safe mode and normal,
> with sytem restore disabled, and all now report the system is clean. The HD
> is defragged. I have few startup programs, and anyway this problem is
> earlier in the cycle.
>
> Can anyone advise me how to proceed to get this down please?
>
> Tony
>
>
>
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