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 Member 23132 Level 28.40 Mar 2006 
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Insanely long boot-up times
This started last night, and I'm not sure why. My computer has always been a bit slow when it came to booting up and shutting down, but now, it takes over 10 minutes for the XP welcome screen and my desktop to show up when I start my system.
After the Windows logo and boot bar finishes loading, which only takes 10 seconds or so, the computer just sits there at a blank screen without showing anything. I hear hard drive activity, so I'm not sure exactly what is stalling the process. I have tried running a registry cleaner (RegSeeker), and although it found over 2,000 invalid entries, it didn't seem to do much. I am assuming that there is some kind of stubborn driver that is affecting everything, but I am not sure how to go about finding it. Most amazing jew boots  |
Member 23132 Level 28.40 Mar 2006
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I see Ultra DMA Mode 5, so that seems to be fine.
I heard that Microsoft has a utility called bootvis.exe specifically designed to deal with boot-up issues...but many users haven't been able to boot up at all after using it. TweakHound - Bootvis Tool If anybody has experience with it, please share. It's able to show you a graph of processing times between different initializations, but I don't want to mess anything up by hitting the wrong button. Apparently it is built into XP and optimizes your system automatically, which would explain why my system speed is so random. How ya doing, buddy? |
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