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Don in San Antonio
Greetings All,
I'm using Windows XP Home SP2 and I've noticed some strange things after
upgrading from an IDE drive to and SATA drive. Initially after
installing the new drive and cloning the old drive to the new one I was
amazed to see that the blue bar on Windows only traced half a bar then
disappear. I thought WOW! this new drive is really fast, but then I
noticed that there was a lot more delay during the blank screen stage of
the boot process and in the end, the time to boot up was possibly longer
than it had been with the old drive. A new problem also surfaced, some
of my tray icons were missing. In particular, the speaker icon was gone
along with some others.
I after visiting Microsoft's Knowledge base and expanding the speaker
driver again, the problem was still there. Then on a whim I decided to
run Microsoft Boot Vis. This made a significant difference. The blue
bar on Windows startup is back to four traces before disappearing and my
tray icons are back. Has anyone else had a similar problem and are
there any other optimizing utilities that might improve the boot process
further?
Thanks,
Don
I'm using Windows XP Home SP2 and I've noticed some strange things after
upgrading from an IDE drive to and SATA drive. Initially after
installing the new drive and cloning the old drive to the new one I was
amazed to see that the blue bar on Windows only traced half a bar then
disappear. I thought WOW! this new drive is really fast, but then I
noticed that there was a lot more delay during the blank screen stage of
the boot process and in the end, the time to boot up was possibly longer
than it had been with the old drive. A new problem also surfaced, some
of my tray icons were missing. In particular, the speaker icon was gone
along with some others.
I after visiting Microsoft's Knowledge base and expanding the speaker
driver again, the problem was still there. Then on a whim I decided to
run Microsoft Boot Vis. This made a significant difference. The blue
bar on Windows startup is back to four traces before disappearing and my
tray icons are back. Has anyone else had a similar problem and are
there any other optimizing utilities that might improve the boot process
further?
Thanks,
Don