Juzman Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 Hey guys,I'm running XP SP2, and when I reboot, the boot screen scrolls once, then i see the lwelcome screen for about 30seconds, then background for about 1minute, then the taskbar, desktop icons appear. Any idea on what could be causing this, or how to find out / resolve?In Event viewer, theres a lot of DCOM errors saying:DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service SENS with arguments "" in order to run the server:{D3938AB0-5B9D-11D1-8DD2-00AA004ABD5E}Could this be the problem?Edit: I set the SENS service to manual, shaved a few seconds (2 - 5) off the waiting time. During the Welcome Screen -> Background there is no HDD activity until the last second when it loads the icons / taskbar.Edit: I disabled the following services, now bootup time (restart -> desktop is about 15seconds), Computer Browser, Server, TCP/IP NetBios HelperSo yeah, could have been those servicesThanksTitle Edited - Please follow new forum rules from now on-- Martin L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asin Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 (edited) Something similar happens to me when I'm connected to my DSL modem. The service requires PPPoE authentication, and during startup, it tries to renew the network address before actually running the file that connects it to the service.During this time, there is no hard drive activity.Never found a way around it. Edited December 4, 2005 by Asin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juzman Posted December 4, 2005 Author Share Posted December 4, 2005 sounds like what i have, but what i did was, on the NIC that is connected to the DSL, i unticked TCP/IP in the network connection properties, this way it doesnt try and get an IP via DHCP... and works straight away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asin Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 Wow, that worked rather nicely. Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 I still have server running cause isnt it needed to share files and so on and printers as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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