Re: Very slow boot, Home XP
- From: LadyDungeness@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:21:48 -0700
Do you happen to have a USB external HD attached? If so, how many
partitions?
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Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Delicious!
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:44:30 -0700, Ron Martell
<ron.martell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|"JE" <jedmunds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|>I have 2 issues with this pc I am working on and the first is that it takes
|>5 minutes for the icons and system tray to load. The desktop wallpaper
|>loads right away, but not the other stuff.
|>
|>Prefetch...cleaned, disk-cleanup....done, defrag...done, msconfig, startup
|>items were loaded one at a time and no problems, but when I did the same for
|>Services, when I loaded those one at a time, the Shell Hardware Detection
|>service seemed to be the culprit. When I did not let it load, the desktop
|>and icons loaded right away, but it still took around 4 minutes for the
|>hourglass to disappear so we could proceed. I looked at that service and
|>it shows it is started automatically.
|>
|>Along with this and I am wondering if the 2 things are one in the same
|>problem. We had to reload a wireless usb adapter, which is a routine thing
|>we have to do everytime one of the children hookup their iPod and download
|>music and since the startup problem has started, we can't get the adapter to
|>recognize the internet. I changed it out with a new one and it still does
|>not connect, but does talk with the router. The adapter does work fine with
|>another pc that it is part of the network.
|>
|>I would appreciate any suggestions. I found nothing on the MS support
|>Knowledge Base that follows along with this problem.
|>
|>Thanks much!!!
|
|What are the specs for the system, especially RAM quantity? Your 5
|minute bootup time would not be unusual, for example, for a system
|with only 128 mb and which was also infested with one or more
|Symantec/Norton products.
|
|Here is a utility which may help you to detect what is taking the most
|time during the startup:
|
|Windows XP Boot logger: http://greatis.com/utilities/bootlogxp
|
|Good luck
|
|Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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