MadMick Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 GiddayMy XP Pro installation has in the past two weeks started taking ages to boot up, it goes through the post/bios/login normally, but then seems to sit and think for 20-30 seconds before loading any programs, this can take anywhere from 60 secs to 3 minutes to finish??.Also, a lot of the programs that are running and should be in the system tray are not showing, they *are* running, but no icons show in the system tray.The system is a:P4 2.4GGA-8IRX M/B1G ddr 2700 ram256MB radeon 9600 pro videoyadda yadda yaddaIts running SPI with all the security patches, NAV 2004 with latest defs, full scan finds nothing, latest ZoneAlarm Pro, latest Ad-aware, latest Spyware blaster and latest SpyBot, all find nothing that shouldn't be there.With 48 processes running, the CPU is at 99% idle most of the time.Any ideas greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwevi Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Windows xp normaly starts going slow after you add alot of programs you should delete programs that you do not use and also after you've installed sp1 your computer slows down on boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Maniac Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 madmick...i have the same problem..dunno wuts cousing it either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datalore Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Try looking at your startup; open up MMC (Start-Run-mmc) Then add the snap-in "Services". Follow a guide to remove services you don't need:http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_servi...ces/index.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMick Posted October 20, 2003 Author Share Posted October 20, 2003 Windows xp normaly starts going slow after you add alot of programs you should delete programs that you do not use and also after you've installed sp1 your computer slows down on boot.Yeah I know it will slow down after adding software, that's not unique to XP though, and I haven't added anything new to cause the slowdown, it just started booting slow one day ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMick Posted October 20, 2003 Author Share Posted October 20, 2003 Try looking at your startup; open up MMC (Start-Run-mmc) Then add the snap-in "Services". Follow a guide to remove services you don't need:http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_servi...ces/index.shtmlThanx mate, but I have basically stripped most things out of the start up already, the stuff running now is the stuff that should be running and was running fine before it decided to be a s***head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 instead write services.msc to command lineI'll suggest metaproducts startup organizer Its really organized I'm sure everyone has a same problem I've it myself above all the reasons I've too many usb devices and too many hardware installed, I'm thinking xp tries to load 'em up and this slows it.I've another problem though when I open taskbar I see no username from any programs? I had tweaked it too much but dunno what caused it.you can close most services but it doesn't really get you anywhere try this page has information about the services if you dunno what they doBlack Viperalso you might have a non compatible driver maybe ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr3nchippo Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 have you tried using bootvis?? here's the link.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 aa yes I had forgot about that thanks for reminding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMick Posted October 21, 2003 Author Share Posted October 21, 2003 Thanx for your input guys, I have already done most of what was suggested, I think XtremeMaC hit the nail on the head with his "too much hardware" comment .I have recently added another HDD, a Zip drive and a couple of other doodads .Thanx again for the suggestions, looks like a clean install coming up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXPerience-XP Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 i had bootvis but it doesnt help i dont think? it jus traces it.... i dont need to worry i have a fast start-up but botvis is jus a tracer prog rite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 trace first, reboot, load saved bin file, select Optimize from menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXPerience-XP Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 o ok thx Aaron my XP boots now like in 25 secs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 Have any of you found a way to speed it logging in after it boots up? My XP machine boots up quick, 25-35 seconds. But then it take literally 4-6 minutes to go through the whole login proccess. Any Suggestions?I'm running on a P4 2.2GHz, 512 MB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 swift how many progarams do you have in your start-up?if you have too many it's probably causing the delay.also you can disable some services. and you can defrag your hdd!!! put the .exe & .dll's at the beginning of the hdd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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