Re: Unusual slow star-up - advice requested.

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The principle underlying Clean booting is to remove all third party
applications loading and the adding one back, rebooting and timing the
boot time. Then repeating the process for each application until you
locate which is the cause of a longer boot. Earlier you said this.

Clean boot: 80 secs. to desktop appearing; 150 seconds to system loaded
Normal boot: 125 seconds to desktop appearing; 530 seconds (almost 9
minutes!) to system loaded.

It may be easier said than done but one or two applications are adding 6
minutes to your boot time.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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X-Eyed_Bear wrote:
Gerry wrote:
I have studied the information provided earlier and your other
reponses. My suspicion is that your slow start-up is the result of
Adobe products loading on system start-up and to a lesser extent the
impact of Norton Internet Security scans. You can check whether this
diagnosis is correct by installing Autoruns and disabling (not
deleting) the Adobe start up items. This process is easily reversed
using Autoruns.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx

With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from
starting, or you can can right click an item and then delete it. If
you uncheck you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much
safer approach than editing the Registry. Another useful feature of
the programme is that you can right click an item and select Search
Online to get information about the item selected.

What are your arrangements for a pagefile? Where exactly is it is
located?

Are you using Windows Defender as a standalone programme or as part
of Windows Live OneCare?


Thanks for further advice.

I have stopped 2 Adobe services from running at Startup (using
MSConfig) and similarly stopped about 5 other items. I removed about
10 desktop shortcuts (leaving about 20 still active). Boot time has
reduced from 8 mins 50 secs to 8 mins 25 secs!

I'll try Autoruns later this evening.

I don't think that Norton nwow does any scans on strat up, but I could
be wrong - the interface is a model of how not to deliver usability.

The pagefile is 'System Managed'; located on my 'D' drive which is a
mirrored pair of 250 Gb Sata II drives. Reading from the D drive seems
extremely quick - for example when I am loading a 100 MB TIFF. The
drive is about 30% full. The defrag report shows nothing red at all.

Windows Defender was standalone. It has now been deleted (without any
obvious benefit).


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