Re: Slow startup after logon

Well if it was AVG it would have been fixed when i dissabled it at start
up... the other computers are just my house computers. I havent connected to
school yet.

"John John" wrote:

What are those other wired computers? I take it they are just part of a
workgroup? At school when you logon you are not connected to any other
computers, you always have and just logon to the laptop, as a stand
alone machine?

As Daave mentioned, if your AV software is scanning at boot time it may
cause a delay at logon. If that isn't the problem then the laptop may
be looking for non existent network connections or it may be fiddling
about trying to apply Group Policies, you would see that if you do what
I told you earlier.

John

PATRICK wrote:
I do use wireless internet, connect with a router with 3 other wired
computers. I have dissabled all startup items, and rebooted with no change.
The AVG is just the antivirus, but the zone alarm has firewall, spyware and
antivirus. but i would imagine if they were conflicting when i dissabled all
startup processes that would have solved the problem. And windows firewall
is dissabled further reducing conflicts.

"John John" wrote:


Do you log on to a server, like the school server? A domain is a group
of computers that are centrally managed. Follow Daave's advice
regarding AV software. If after doing what Daave suggests you are still
having logon delays you can enable verbose logging and see what is going
on when you logon to the machine.

John

PATRICK wrote:


What do you mean a domain?

"John John" wrote:



Are you logging to a domain? Is or was the laptop ever joined to a
domain? You can enable "verbose logging" and you might find out what
the machine is doing when it is logging on:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325376/

If you think that the problem is related to the User Environment or GPO
then you can enable User Environment logging:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221833

John

PATRICK wrote:


I got it, but i dont see any programs that would be doin it. I'm at a loss
on why it is doing this.

"PATRICK" wrote:




If it was my desktop i wouldn't mind, but for my laptop i would like it to
get up and go, so i can open it, turn it on and use it for school without
havin to wait half the class time for me to use it. Ill try this process
explorer and see.

"Daave" wrote:




PATRICK wrote:



Yea, it runs perfect after that period, but i dont think thats it,
because i disabled my antivirus in the previous post, through
msconfig, and it still took a very long time to load

"Daave" wrote:




PATRICK wrote:




I have a dell vostro laptop, and when i hit the power button i get
to the logon window with no problem, fast and all. However after i
logon it takes about 4 minutes for icons to show up, and to be able
to use programs.

After the four-minute process is over, does your PC run fine? If so,
it sounds like your antivirus program is scanning all the files on
your
hard drive.

Maybe you only *think* you disabled it. :-)

Anyway, Process Explorer should tell you what's slowing things down:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Personally, I wouldn't be that concerned if your PC achieves an
acceptable speed in four minutes.






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