Re: Anomalous startup behavior

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"Bill's News" <billsnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|A friend has just dropped off his computer for me to either find
| his problem or reinstall xp.
|
| The situation is that, after power on the user selections (there
| are 4 users of this machine) appear in reasonable time.
| However, when selecting a user it takes about 7 minutes (no
| sweep second on my wall clock), during which time only an empty
| desktop shows, before the application icons appear on the desk
| top. If we press Ctrl-Alt-Del immediately, the Task manager
| appears about 20 seconds or so later with virtually no programs
| running (about 10 MS modules) none of which is consuming any CPU
| cycles. Only Sys-idle is counting cycles. Just about when the
| 7 minutes expires, Task Manager shows the rest of the apps,
| etc., loading and the desk top icons appear.
|
| Alternatively, if I start the system and let it sit at the user
| choice screen for 7 minutes, when I click on a user, that
| desktop appears almost immediately with all app icons in place.
|
| I've never seen this sort of behavior before.
|
| Although I've not connected the PC to my router as yet, my
| friend says this is the behavior whether or not he has internet
| access available.
|
| I'm going to spend up to 4 hours poking at this tomorrow morning
| and was wondering if any who might be here have encountered this
| before and have a clue I might pursue?
|
| Many thanks for your consideration.
|
|


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