Re: debug slow startup?

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"Gerry" wrote:

Kent

What is your computer make and model? If you reinstall you normally need
to update third party drivers. This point occurred to me after reading
your earlier post which mentions replacing the hard drive.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I got a new XP load for my laptop from our support group and it now
takes a long time from the time I enter my password to log into
Windows to where the computer is usable. Seems like there is a
process in the startup now that may be hanging waiting for something,
then timing out, and allowing the startup to go on. Is there a good
way to debug this? Would anything be written to a log file somewhere?



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