hi all.

any clue(s) as to why a win2k sp4 installation is taking forever (5+ minutes) to boot after installing internet explorer 5.5 sp2?

fwiw, the first reboot after installing ie5.5 sp2 did take some time while god knows what settings were being updated. having seen this in the past i wasn't concerned.

if i had to guess i'd say subsequent reboots are going through the same "settings update" that occurred immediately after the ie5.5 sp2 install. it's almost like the install routine is stuck in some kind of loop.

anyway, once it finally boots everything seems hunky dory.

any help would be very appreciated.

peace,

david

Try running bootvis to trace your boot process to see where the bottleneck is and go from there.