2 Questions...WinXP Related...

[GlassDaddy90]

Ok, I just did a fresh install of Win XP on my PC. I have 2 questions that I need some help with. Here goes...

1.) I have my system dual booted with Win98SE. Upon boot-up, it gives me the option to use "Windows XP Home Edition" or "Windows". It also has a 30 second timer in order for me to pick which OS I want to boot with. I want to modify that OS option screen to read "Windows98 SE" instead of just "Windows". I also want to reduce the timer to around 10 seconds. How do I do that?

2.) Once I select my profile in WinXP, it goes into loading my settings and all that jazz. When my desktop appears it starts loading the few programs at startup. The only ones I have loading is Meaya's Ad Pop-Up filter, the "remove hardware safely" program, and Norton Personal Firewall/Anti-Virus 2002. The first two come up immediately, but the Norton programs lag behind. It takes them about 45-60 seconds to load in the system tray. This slows me down a little, but in itself isn't a huge issue. Where this actually bothers me, is that I cannot get online through my DSL dial-up until Norton is loaded up. So basically, every time I log into WinXP, I have to wait a full minute after I am into my desktop area for Norton to load into the system tray before I can get onto the internet or utilize any kind of network connections. It leads me to believe that it isn't necessarily a problem with Norton, but maybe something in the background 'network connection' related. What do you think? Before I formatted and re-installed WinXP, I didn't have this problem so there has to be some way to work around this...I hope.

If anyone could lend a helping hand on these two matters I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

JB

 

[nihil]

<< Ok, I just did a fresh install of Win XP on my PC. I have 2 questions that I need some help with. Here goes...

1.) I have my system dual booted with Win98SE. Upon boot-up, it gives me the option to use "Windows XP Home Edition" or "Windows". It also has a 30 second timer in order for me to pick which OS I want to boot with. I want to modify that OS option screen to read "Windows98 SE" instead of just "Windows". I also want to reduce the timer to around 10 seconds. How do I do that? >>




just edit your boot.ini file.

make the timeout=10
change the line under [operating systems] to Windows98 SE instead of Windows. sorry i don't remember what line it is exactly but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

 

[GlassDaddy90]

Ok, thanks. That's one down, one to go. How about the second problem (the biggest one). Thanks.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< 2.) Once I select my profile in WinXP, it goes into loading my settings and all that jazz. When my desktop appears it starts loading the few programs at startup. The only ones I have loading is Meaya's Ad Pop-Up filter, the "remove hardware safely" program, and Norton Personal Firewall/Anti-Virus 2002. The first two come up immediately, but the Norton programs lag behind. It takes them about 45-60 seconds to load in the system tray. This slows me down a little, but in itself isn't a huge issue. Where this actually bothers me, is that I cannot get online through my DSL dial-up until Norton is loaded up. So basically, every time I log into WinXP, I have to wait a full minute after I am into my desktop area for Norton to load into the system tray before I can get onto the internet or utilize any kind of network connections. It leads me to believe that it isn't necessarily a problem with Norton, but maybe something in the background 'network connection' related. What do you think? Before I formatted and re-installed WinXP, I didn't have this problem so there has to be some way to work around this...I hope. >>

You had XP and Norton on there before and now it's lagging when you start up your computer? Wow, maybe it's not a problem with XP. I have the same thing myself. It irks me a bit that Nortin takes so long to load.

 

[cdsonic]

The second problem i have had before for two reasons.

1. Windows XP update program seem to cause it till it was finnished with first update.

2. Sometimes when windows crashes a couple of times it seems to take nortons a little while to cope with it and load properly.

Hopefully this helps.

I Personally went back to version 2001 it seems to have less problems. Nortons reckon it is incompatible with Winxp but it works fine on the latest release of windows.

 

[NzAnE2K]

Norton takes a while to start up because your network didnt start yet. That is also why you have to wait for the dsl.

 

[GlassDaddy90]

Wow, I figured it out!!! On a whim, being I hadn't setup my home network so my laptop could access the net through my desktop, I went to Control Panel, Network and Internet Connections, Setup or Change Your Home or Small Office Network. I ran the wizard making my desktop the Pc connected directly to the net, and then made a network disk for my laptop. Now, I haven't connected my laptop to the network yet, I just wanted to try this out and see what happened. When I rebooted...WALLA!!! Norton loaded within 2 seconds of the other 2 programs in the system tray and I was back to normal. If you guys haven't tried this, give it a go and see if it works for you. Thanks for the help!

 

[wjsulliv]

The Win 9x product lines paused during loading to register and start the network. I.e. you didn't enter the desktop until the network was initialized and ready to use.

The Win NT/2K/XP product lines load the OS regardless of the network's readiness for use. Thus you have faster access to the functions of the computer, but not of the network until they system initializes the network connections. Microsoft says the loading/initializing of the network could take upto 2 minuets after the rest fo the boot process finishes.

My guess is that regardless of how fast norton shows up in your system tray, it has a red 'x' over it until the network comes up. There are ways to setup your computer so that it starts with the network fully on (like setting it up as an ICS machine).