Re: Help to fix SLOW WinXP bootup

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"Robert Macy" <macy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This problem was posted earlier with no resolution for the problem,
maybe this time...

Apologies for having to post this problem from memory:

The symptom is slow bootup, approximately 10 minutes, slow application
startups, and slow internet access, approx 5 minutes+ to log on, if at
all.

This has been my MANUAL wrokaround:
If during bootup, I run Task Manager and kill the CPU hogging svchost;
the bootup is extremely fast, like normal. All is well until I try
internet access, so to speed that up I go to Control Panel and under
Services STOP DND Automatic, then access to the internet is 'normal'.


The whole problem may be caused by a multiple situation, the event
record during bootup shows that a driver, aic78xx.sys failed to load.
followed by a ?? hang. Both copies of aic78xx.sys, the one in
System32/Drivers and the one in *.cab/Driver Cache compare as
identical, which means the file itself is probably not corrupted?
Something else must be wrong. Trying to find alternative form of
aic78xx.sys proved fruitless.

Using Command Prompt Tasklist /svc and comparing the list to where
svchost was not killed to the list where svhost was killed, showed
that the 'offending' svchost was associated with DNS Cache.

The problem possibly is in a network configuration that no longer
exists. but how to fix my WinXP?

Questions:

1) Is it catastrophic to have a driver fail to load? especially
aic78xx.sys?

2) How can I set up my machine to do AUTOMATICALLY what I have been
doing MANUALLY to get the WinXP back to normal operation?

Regards,
Robert


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