SP2 causes slow bootup

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From: Prose (prose_at_papfriends.com)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:59:54 -0500

I downloaded and installed SP2 on my XP Pro computer on Thursday. It
installed just fine but now it is very, very slow when booting up.Sometimes
it just hangs and i have to turn it off and back on. This is new behaviour
since installing the update. I have run Spybot, Pest Patrol, Norton AV and
defragged so I dont' think its any of that causing this.

It also gives me the occasional message that my ethernet card is unplugged
but that isn't true either as it in internal and shows up just fine under
device manager.

Any thoughts??

Mary

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