The "Welcome" screen blues...

[AMDJunkie]

I currently have Windows XP SP1 (repair installation from SP2 no less) and since then my shutdown and bootup times have improved except for one aspect. I only have to watch the blue bar travel about four times before I get the "Welcome" screen... And then I have to wait easily over 30 seconds, and as long as two minutes for the five user icons on this system to appear. I realllllly don't want to do an entire reformat and reinstall if I can avoid it, and I'm also putting off SP2 (as nice as pop-up blocker was, I miss my bit torrents and I don't really trust system files altered by a third party). Are there any known culprits (Norton? ATI toolbar?) that would make my user icons appear so slowly?

 

[SUOrangeman]

What'cha talkin' 'bout, Junkie? Azureus is fine with XP SP2. Boot times will probably get a lift from cleaning out \Windows\Prefetch, but don't expect miracles.

I wouldn't be bold enough to say that SP2 is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it is still faster than Win2K at any level. It ain't that bad!

-SUO

 

[dawks]

DHCP happens at or near that time, and can be 'holding' your system back if its having problems connecting to the DHCP server. This *may* be it.. I dont know for sure.

BitTorrents work fine with SP2. I bet your worrying about the TCP being limted to 10 connections. Thats not what SP2 does.

If your having speed issues, its probably related to a firewall. You need to open at least one port in the range 6881-6889 and you should be good to go. I have no problems getting 250k/down and 100k/up running BTs on Azureus with XP SP2 and the XP firewall.