Really slow boot w/ win2k pro.

[seti920]

Hi. My xp 1700 running windows 2000 professional has been getting steadily slower to boot. It used to come up in 30 seconds. Now I'm over two minutes.

I've tried defragging, using norton utilities (speed disc, error check to check/clean registry).

No real hogs installed to run in the background, except open office which I need every time use the computer.


What are my options at this point? Back up data, format & start over?

Something else?

Appreciate the help.

-Ben

 

[Apatewnas]

Have you tried an antivirus program?

 

[seti920]

Yep. No dice.

 

[GoingUp]

when was the last time you installed it? I woudl recommend reinstalling it and then ghosting it so you could blow back a ghost image and be all set...

 

[Abzstrak]

format it... only true way to clean up that registry ;-)

 

[Slapstick]

It could be a flaky network connection, a shared drive or shared printer that is no longer availible. Check your network settings and shares.

 

[MrYogi]

how much ram memory does your computer have?

 

[seti920]

512 megs DDR 2700

Installed first week of January, 2003. Completely formatted drive prior to that.


Slapstick - not sharing a drive nor a printer. Running on a modem...but the broken ethernet icon shows up, and I can't get it to go away, even after adjusting the network settings.
You may be onto something.

Thanks.

 

[Apatewnas]

So you have a lancard. It would help a lot if you gave us a complete desciption of your hardware. Also before that try giving an ip address to your lancerd.

I've seen this kind of of behaviour in earlier versions of windows. Just a thought

 

[Bleep]

What probably is happening is your network card has gone sour and the machine hangs trying to configure your network settings.

Bleep

 

[jimmyhaha]

check for background /startup operation & see if any crap is running..

You can see what programs are starting up in the registry if you like. Run regedit.
>Hkey_local_machine
>Software
>Microsoft
>Windows
>CurrentVersion
>Run
There are also RunOnce, any key with the run will show you whats starting. if you want to see whats starting in you profile choose local user instead of local machine

isntall SP4, it will make boot up faster.

 

[Unforgiven]

yeah i think its the network card on the fritz for sure. also, you may want to run a registry clearner such as power tools or regclean found at http://www.jv16.org

btw, i dont recommend installing sp4 for windows 2000. as of tonight ive uninstalled it off of the 3 boxes i had it running on due to various blue screens on high cpu utilzation on all 3 boxes. stick with service pack 3 until microsoft can get the bugs ironed out and release a decent service pack without so many friggin bugs!