how to fix WinXP 1 minute boot lag

[imported_smile]

WinXP SP2, it's experiencing a boot lag that is 1 minute long.

The boot lag occurs when I see Logon screen "Loading your personal settings"

The next thing I see is my desktop wallpaper, it just sits there for ~1 minute.

Then the desktop icons appears and tray applications are loaded.

To fix the lag I tried.

Tuneup utilities registry fix and defrag,
Uniblue Registry booster 2 fix and defrag,
Hard drive defrag.

Event viewer no system or application errors.

How can I fix this lag?

 

[imported_smile]

After reading on another forum that I need to create another user account to test if my own is currupt.

I created another user account and rebooted my pc. I clicked on the new user account and login was instant. Then I rebooted again and clicked my user acount the login was working ok too

Then I used the control userpasswords2 command to make autologin work again.
I selected my account and what do you think - The login problem is back.

 

[imported_smile]

I used Bootvis to try check where the problem is.

I attached my BIN file could somebody with knowledge please help me.
http://rapidshare.com/files/122498089/boot_lag.rar.html

 

[ed21x]

this is something that I want to see solved as well. Try posting in the 'General Hardware' section as more people will see it.

 

[imported_smile]

Originally posted by: ed21x
this is something that I want to see solved as well. Try posting in the 'General Hardware' section as more people will see it.

Is double posting allowed on this forum?

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: smile

Originally posted by: ed21x
this is something that I want to see solved as well. Try posting in the 'General Hardware' section as more people will see it.

Is double posting allowed on this forum?

It's not really a hardware issue, so it would just get moved back here anyway.

Is it possible your hardware just sucks? My comp takes a hell of a long time to boot up and shut down because my C drive is on a PATA100 bus, and it's shared with another hard drive. Sandra says my C drive only reads at 16mb/s, and even the USB drive can do 35mb/s.

I guess that's something to check. Get a freeware copy of Sisoft Sandra and check the speed of your C drive.

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1

It's not really a hardware issue, so it would just get moved back here anyway.

Actually, it could be a hardware issue. It may be that your issue has been addressed in a BIOS update.

I've seen relatively identical setups take longer to load on one system over another where the only difference was the motherboard. Back when we were running Win 98 SE, I had several friends running Asus A7N8X boards, and all of them took way too long to boot. When I had the choice of that board or another less popular board with another chipset, I chose the other board because I didn't want to deal with it, and I was glad I did.

Then, I read that the Asus board was optimized for XP, and I was able to see XP booting much faster on my friends' machines.

 

[imported_smile]

How can my hardware suck when I state that if I disable auto login with control userpasswords2 and do it manualy it never has a lag?

And there is no bios update my MB is too old for that

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: smile
How can my hardware suck when I state that if I disable auto login with control userpasswords2 and do it manualy it never has a lag?

And there is no bios update my MB is too old for that

because people dont know how to read... they just read what the want and barf out an answer

XP gets slower over time it always seemed to me, maybe spyware virus, backup and reinstall

 

[imported_smile]

I know reinstall will fix the prolem, that why it is called reinstall anyway. I hoped to find a fix without reinstalling.

 

[eggrolls]

Do you use Norton? I had the same problem and the culprit was one of its services. Disabling it or reinstalling Norton fixed the problem.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1
Is it possible your hardware just sucks? My comp takes a hell of a long time to boot up and shut down because my C drive is on a PATA100 bus, and it's shared with another hard drive. Sandra says my C drive only reads at 16mb/s, and even the USB drive can do 35mb/s.

Sounds like your HD is in PIO mode.

 

[Stiganator]

Check HD mode, also disable services

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

http://www.overclockersclub.co...s/windows_xp_services/

If you're running x86 XP install SP3 unless its an AMD rig, then check up on and SP3 fix, I heard there were problems.

 

[MrChad]

Argh, so much terrible information in this thread.

1. You tested with another user account and it worked fine. That likely rules out hardware problems.
2. Assuming you're not getting errors or other performance issues, a spyware/virus problem is unlikely.

I would check your services and startup items. I would not recommend follow Black Viper's guide, as you'll end up causing headaches for yourself. The culprit is most likely a third-party driver or application, not something in Windows.

Open up MSCONFIG (Start / Run / msconfig) and go to the Startup tab. Try disabling some of the start up items one by one until you can isolate the problem. I would target items under the HKCU\ registry branch first, as these are associated with your particular account.

Good luck.

 

[MrChad]

Another thing to check are your network settings and drivers. I believe that XP waits to load network components until you log on, so sometimes network settings or drivers can cause delays. Try disabling some of your network components and see if that helps things at all.

 

[nordloewelabs]

had a similar problem once and it got fixed after I un-mapped a shared folder. the problem can't be the services (even though some are major resource hogs). if the system leads normally in a different user account, that rules out a Services problem since services are loaded for all users.