cougartrace Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 I downloaded and installed SP2 last night. I would say that my boot time is an average of about 20 seconds longer than SP1.Anything I can disable to quicken my boot time with SP2?
Tel Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 When I installed SP2 I did notice the reboot directly after the install was extremely long, but other than that it's still pretty quick.What have you got in your start up?
cougartrace Posted August 26, 2004 Author Posted August 26, 2004 I would say no more than 6 or 7 items including some necessary HP items and Norton AV and Norton Internet Security stuff. It was quicker before SP2. Maybe I'll give it some time.
Vel Straty Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 Why don't you use the bootvis or Tunexp?Or maybe by installing the SP2, your HD may have fragmented a lot if you haven't clean installed it.
cougartrace Posted August 26, 2004 Author Posted August 26, 2004 My harddrive shows no fragmentation. I can't run BOOTVIS. I've tried and it just errors out on me.
tallman61 Posted August 30, 2004 Posted August 30, 2004 I downloaded and installed SP2 last night. I would say that my boot time is an average of about 20 seconds longer than SP1.Anything I can disable to quicken my boot time with SP2?If I,m not mistaken, when SP2 is installed it automatically adds to the startup 1) Seurity Center, 2) Windows Firewall configuration, 3) Automatic Updates setup, 4) Windows firewall configuration, 5) Wireless networking setup options. None of these need to launch at setup, especially if you have told Windows what you want to use & what not; plus, access to them is available through the Control Panel at anytime if you want to make changes. I would remove them from startup & expect to see a faster boot.Also, try running HijackThis! program to see what Code 04 startup entries are added (most are in the registry & thus won't show up in the startup folder); you can disable any you don't want.
wnick000 Posted August 30, 2004 Posted August 30, 2004 When I updated my computer to SP2, I also noticed a longer boot time. On average, I went from 1:30 to over 3:00 minutes. I then reformatted with a slipstreamed SP2 CD, and my boot time is now under a minute, which is shorter than when I had reformatted with SP1a. My advice to you is to reformat with a slipstreamed copy. It may help.
nolookingca Posted August 30, 2004 Posted August 30, 2004 Did you apply any startup tweaks that SP2 may overide?
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