Windows sloooooooow to boot

[Thoth093]

When I boot my machine, Windows XP takes forever to complete its start-up cycle. I get to the screen where it has the XP pro logo with the cycling bar, and it stays there a long, long, long time.

Eventually, things reconcile, and once everything starts up the computer runs fine. But it's annoying as heck waiting for the thing to get past that initial screen.

I do have a ton, and I mean a ton, of stuff on my machine. So that may figure in. What is is doing, exactly, during that portion of startup?

My specs:

ECS 755-A2
Athlon 64 3200
1 gb pc 3200 (2x512mb sticks)
ATI Radeon 9800pro (Changing to a 6800GT this week)
Two 80 gigabyte hard drives, one SATA, one EIDE 133 (I think). SATA is the C: drive with my windows directory.
Oboard sound.
Onboard LAN.

TIA.

Brian

 

[TGS]

You may have a good amount of unneccesary program services or applets starting. You can check your startup folder, your HKLM Run entries, and your program tray. Lots of programs/drivers tend to have a lot of junk programs attached to them. Why you need to start the bundled programs by default is beyond me.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run with regedit, just becareful on what you are getting rid of. If anything just save out the entries so you can put them back if anything causes adverse effects.

 

[Panther505]

Quick guess would be that you are getting a DHCP timeout? If you have networking setup and booting is taking a long time... I always look to network as the source of the problem. I would set a static IP and see if it boots quicker (or disable the network card for a boot or two).

Panther505

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Try unchecking a few apps from loading with msconfig. Or maybe some services with services.msc.

 

[lockmac]

I thougth that unchecking programs from startup on the msconfig only stops programs from starting up once windows has loaded.. eg once it has gone past the login screen. Correct me if I am wrong please

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: lockmac
I thougth that unchecking programs from startup on the msconfig only stops programs from starting up once windows has loaded.. eg once it has gone past the login screen. Correct me if I am wrong please

Actually you're right. At the loading bar it only loads windows services, drivers, and windows processes afaik. It could be some corrupted windows files. Maybe you should try a virus scan or spyware scan.

 

[Thoth093]

Both came up nil. I think it's just a tremendously huge bunch of services, etc. that it's loading up. I'm sure there's a Web site that provides info on startup files out there, right? So you know what to kill and keep at least. I'll do some research on that tonight.

 

[Fresh Daemon]

Download and run "Hijack This". It'll tell you for certain what is running at boot-time and what isn't.

 

[Thoth093]

To add a point of clarification: It's hanging on the screen with the black background, the WinXP logo and the scrolling blue bar. Seems to be a bit of confusion about that.

Takes about 30-40 seconds sometimes to get to the login screen. This may not actually be long, but it didn't use to take that long.

Brian

 

[Novercalis]

same here for me guys.. I am able to pass the window logo screen and bar but than I enter to this Black screen for 20-30 seconds...
I just built this rig and odnt have much on it... k disabled alot of useless junks that I know in my window tesk manager and with hijack this + ace utltizes, anythign else that was hidden has been removed/disable.. but than again.. there wasnt much but 2 system tray only.

so I dont know why its taking me forever as well.

look at my rig in the sig for crying out loud.

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0
Scan saved at 9:23:14 AM, on 10/12/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (X.XXX.XXXX.XXXX)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscntfy.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\devldr32.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wpabaln.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\SCLP\Desktop\HiJackThis\HijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe