Re: Long pause on start up - why?
- From: "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:57:00 -0800
Nige wrote:
> Just to put things in perspective, by 'long' I mean about 1½ minutes,
> so this is not a matter of life or death. I have XP Pro on my laptop,
> so when starting the machine I am not always in a situation when I
> can go and make a cup of coffee while it puts its boots on one at a
> time. And it didn't used to do this, so I wonder what has changed.
>
> This is what I observe. The boot goes exactly as expected up to the
> blue 'welcome' screen and the rinky-dinky start-up tune, then the
> wallpaper appears, and then ... nothing. It just sits there, silently
> with apparently no activity on the hard disk. This goes on for about
> a minute and then there is a flicker of life from the hard disk,
> which then gradually gets going again in a further 20 seconds or so
> and along comes the task bar followed by the desktop icons and we're
> away. The speed of the machine is then absolutely satisfactory (even
> better since I removed some programmes from startup), so there is no
> problem here. No problem anywhere really in the scale of things, but
> I would like to know what might be going on and if there is anything
> I can do to reduce my time looking at the lotuses on the computer
> wallpaper - although it might be better if keep this 'feature' and
> use the time to meditate.
Is this laptop sometimes connected to a corporate network? Are there a bunch
of items in My Network Places? Is it trying to map network drives?
Kerry
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