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Significant WinXP Pro boot and shut down time

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QueHuong

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I reformatted my system and installed XP pro a while ago so I don't remember the details. I remember thinking how the freshly installed XP is so fast. But then I started installing a couple of drivers and programs to the newly reformatted system, but boot and shutdown time increased A LOT. It takes about a minute for the comp just shut down.

I can't remember which exact program/driver or combination of program drivers that caused it, but some culprits are:

- Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ driver
- Lexmark Z52 color printer driver
- MS Office 2000 Pro (this is what I suspect the most for the increased boot/shutdown time)
- Norton SystemWorks 2002 (this is what I suspect the 2nd most)
- ACDSee 3.0
- MS Visual Studio 6.0
- A bunch of updates via Windows Update and Norton Live Update (3rd most suspected reason).

I kept only the most important program from starting up with the comp and deleted any other unneeded programs from starting up, so I doubt this is the reason for the slow boot. But as for the slow shutdown, I have no idea what's causing this.

The reason I'm asking now is because I'm gonna reformat my comp for college to start out new, but I want to identify the source of the problem so I can try to fix it when I get the chance again. So anybody have any idea what's wrong?
 
Do you happen to have a network card that not in use, Windows will search for a network if the card is not in use in turn increasing boot times
 
i'm not sure of your config,

but on my system i had

2 SCSI drives connected to a SCSI adaptor
2 Hard-drives attached to an Promise Ultra 100 card
1 DVD and 1 CDRW attached to the onboard IDE

and the boot time? Around 3min 🙁
 
No, I don't have a network card installed (yet). I will when college comes around in a few weeks. But I think it's a software related problems (either apps or drivers) since after I installed some, that's when I noticed the slow boot/shutdown time. I'm emphasizing boot/shutdown b/c that's the only problem, normal use of XP after it booted up is normal.
 
Once WinXp Pro has finished booting and you are at the desktop, open up Task Manager. What services are running?
 
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