disturbed Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 Okay...as I have never had this problem before, I really do not know where to start - I was always on SP1 and never had any problems, booting up was almost instantly as I have multiple hard drive raid 0 set up.... Just last week I decided to upgrade to SP2 and B@M there it hit me....My boot time is same, but when I click the user name on which I want to log in the system just halts there for a very long time, a minute ? 2 minutes ? .... What is up with this ? ...this is completely new to me ? ...im clear of trojans/spyware/viruses....I do that stuff on regular basis, as well as defrag.... ....im confused !? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 The only thing I can think of is if you have a alt character in the name of your pc (when you installed windows xp) it can interfere with programs like FEBE for Firefox and I believe can cause pauses during booting. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 does it do that when you go into safe mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 4, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 Quick restart - Let me go try that ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted January 4, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 No...that does not happen when I am in safe mode - SP2 seems to have brought me a lot of grief ! LOL ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 No...that does not happen when I am in safe mode - SP2 seems to have brought me a lot of grief ! LOL ..... since it didnt happen in safemode its something you have starting up, disable a few things and see if it makes it start faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h2haxor Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 type msconfig in run and remove some startup programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 Amazing how that works. My kids's comp has nothing on it, (offline) and immediatley as soon as I finish clicking the password in, it is ready to go. And it is 4 years old. NO start ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted January 4, 2007 CID Share Posted January 4, 2007 as others have said-- turn off the non-needed apps that are starting up on boot time "msconfig" or via software http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml (( startup control panel )) also you can do a services.msc and (( blackviper --a professional pc nerd and hacker- what ever happened to him ?? )) http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12 has a very good list of services that you can turn on/off this list and correct settings can/does makes a good difference on how fast the pc boots (( Notes -- Disabling all of the "unneeded services" frees up 12-70MB of RAM, depending on system. )) (( Safe settings work very good from hands on experence - jeff w )) good luck on a fix Jeff Walker In Sin City Las Vegas Nevada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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