Re: slow startup

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This gets covered a lot.

You have 2 main options

RUN a diagnostic. Go to start - run - type msconfig, then click diagnostic,
and see if it happens, if not then recheck 5 services and startup items at a
time to see what is causing the problem

If that fails then i suggest running the repair consol. It will not delete
your programs or data but ti will delete your drivers, and you will need to
update windows... To run this insert the XP cd, restart and boot from cd, and
run the repair consol

Best of luck

Cheers

Quintin
MVP wannabe

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> Must not type without eye glasses - substitute in for "is" ...
>
> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:...
> > If the XP System Partition in FAT32, you may have some disk issues,
> > such as Partition table miss-matches, etc. If your data is backed up,
> > you might want to consider converting the drive to NTFS. If you have
> > PQMagic (DOS Boot Diskettes), you can run the "Check for Errors"
> > to see if this partition has issue(s).
> >
> >
> > "T. Waters" <@$%$%#^@jdjgkl.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23OvfdEFSFHA.576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> What happens booting into Safe Mode?
> >>
> >> "Bill W" <98uytrex@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:#OZ4DgBSFHA.3156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> I use an upgraded XP from WIN98SE, reboot, startup takes 6 minutes to
> >>> complete, far too slow.
> >>>
> >>> I have talked to MSFT reps, not solved yet.
> >>>
> >>> Just prior to the splash screen is a black screen with black and white
> >>> progress bar at bottom. The startup process takes most of the time
> >>> here.
> >>>
> >>> WE have disabled most of drivers and see what happened, no change.
> >>>
> >>> They seem to think it is a hardware issue or corrupted driver issue, not
> >>> sure.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have some history with this type of problem?
> >>>
> >>> tks all
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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