Re: Serious bootproblem
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:18:09 -0700
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:53:00 -0800, Macamba
<Macamba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a fairly new system (8 months), using an AMD64 dual core processor
with 4G internal memory. As operating system I use XP Home/SP3.
I noticed that booting the system takes a lot of time (2 -3 minutes). I
often gaze at the picture of my desktop waiting for something to happen. All
the time I see no icons on the desktop, nor is a taskbar available.
Two points:
1. I don't think 2-3 minutes is a lot of time at all, and doesn't
necessarily represent a problem. Many people, including me, have a 2-3
minute or longer boot time.
2. My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long
it takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is
otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In
the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't
very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the
morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I
don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care.
However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what
programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them
from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start
automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not
just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped
that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run
line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to
start automatically.
However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.
Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these with google searches and asking about
specifics here.
Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
The previous week I bought myself a HP Deskjet D2560. And because I was not
paying attention during installation a lot of junk was installed on my
harddrive (which I deinstalled yesterday).
Exactly *what* was the "junk" you uninstalled? How did you uninstall
it?
Today I started up XP, and could
not make it do anything. Everything I do, like starting the taskmanager,
takes more then 5 minutes. I'm not able to do anything. I can not start a
browser to look on the Internet for solutions.
I'm rather at a loss, and considering to reinstall the system. But me thinks
that a daunting task, as all the drivers need to be gathered, all software
needs to be installed and the like. So I was hoping for some pointers to do
before I wipe the hard drive clean.
Two points here too:
1. That problem sounds very much like you are infected with malware,
and checking for malware and eliminating any that's found should be
your first consideration.
What anti-virus program do you run? What anti-spyware programs do you
run? Are they up to date?
2. My view is that reinstallation is a very poor choice for you. It
should always be a last resort, and only done when nothing else works.
You are right that it's a daunting task. Moreover, if that's what you
do, it will fix the problem, but you won't find out what the problem
was. Since the problem was caused by something you did, if you don't
find out what it was, you will very likely repeat that behavior and
quickly find yourself back in the same situation.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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