Slow Reboot XP

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

XP Home SP2

KAV, XP's ICF (I'm trying it out; used to use ZA), Ad-Aware SE Pro, Spybot
S&D



Yes I got hit by a multitude of viruses and malware recently but I thought I
recovered; everything worked, including the reboot proces, after fixing with
the above apps. I don't think that's the problem. Everyting now scans clean.



I did, however, play around with changing monitors just before this
happened. But the adapter lists as the same, and I'm now using my old
monitor.



When I reboot, the startup gets delayed a bit too long on the text section
building DMI pool, and then a text bar graph moves across the bottom for
(too long) a while, then the black screen with Windows logo and the moving
progress indicator stays on for an inordinately long time (perhaps minutes).
Then it loads personal settings in a timely maner (I bypass the logon
screen) and XP desktop loads normally.



I don't see anything strange in startup of msconfig.



What could be delaying the reboot?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Restart in Safe Mode, disable Screensaver and run a defrag. Also do a disk
clean up to remove and unwanted and temporary files that might slowing your
system restarts.

Andre Da Costa

 

[Ian Moyce]

What could be delaying the reboot?

Your incompetency

 

[Dr. Bill]

XP Home SP2

KAV, XP's ICF (I'm trying it out; used to use ZA), Ad-Aware SE Pro,
Spybot S&D
Yes I
I did
When I
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What could be delaying the reboot?

You!
Get bootvis to see what's going on.
You did n't buy diskimaging software eh!, you cheap ****!

 

[Rock]

XP Home SP2

KAV, XP's ICF (I'm trying it out; used to use ZA), Ad-Aware SE Pro, Spybot
S&D



Yes I got hit by a multitude of viruses and malware recently but I thought I
recovered; everything worked, including the reboot proces, after fixing with
the above apps. I don't think that's the problem. Everyting now scans clean.



I did, however, play around with changing monitors just before this
happened. But the adapter lists as the same, and I'm now using my old
monitor.



When I reboot, the startup gets delayed a bit too long on the text section
building DMI pool, and then a text bar graph moves across the bottom for
(too long) a while, then the black screen with Windows logo and the moving
progress indicator stays on for an inordinately long time (perhaps minutes).
Then it loads personal settings in a timely maner (I bypass the logon
screen) and XP desktop loads normally.



I don't see anything strange in startup of msconfig.



What could be delaying the reboot?

<cross posting deleted>

Do some clean boot troubleshooting:

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

 

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

- Andre Da Costa -

Restart in Safe Mode, disable Screensaver and run a defrag. Also do a disk
clean up to remove and unwanted and temporary files that might slowing your
system restarts.

- Nehmo -
I already defraged both HDs (I have two). And I've deleted the
contents of the temp folders and I've deleted temp files that System
Mechanic found.

What does that text-made progress bar mean in the start-up? What's
happening then?

Funny, I can only see this message in Google - not on my news-server.

-Nehmo - (opening post below)

 

[Weasel]

Just to get by all the juvenile comments here on you system ;-)) Try SFC and
get the system back in order
BTC

 

[Ray Fischer]

Try
SFC and get the system back in order

<snicker>
Another winner from the microsoft.public nether region.

 

[Kadaitcha Man]

Hotdog, <[email protected]>, the low-resolution, incredibly large rodent, and
operator of the machine that produces coffee, agonised:

I tried ServicePack 2 on WinXP Pro. - Never should have done that.
Though I only used Winblows on a small partition, it really stunk!!
And Pop-ups and warnings all over the place!
I deleted my Winblows-partition now, and only use Mandrake Linux..
Never problems with it !!

What are you going to do when you need to use the computer for something
useful?

 

[Hotdog]

XP Home SP2

KAV, XP's ICF (I'm trying it out; used to use ZA), Ad-Aware SE Pro, Spybot
S&D



Yes I got hit by a multitude of viruses and malware recently but I thought
I recovered; everything worked, including the reboot proces, after fixing
with the above apps. I don't think that's the problem. Everyting now scans
clean.



I did, however, play around with changing monitors just before this
happened. But the adapter lists as the same, and I'm now using my old
monitor.



When I reboot, the startup gets delayed a bit too long on the text section
building DMI pool, and then a text bar graph moves across the bottom for
(too long) a while, then the black screen with Windows logo and the moving
progress indicator stays on for an inordinately long time (perhaps
minutes). Then it loads personal settings in a timely maner (I bypass the
logon screen) and XP desktop loads normally.



I don't see anything strange in startup of msconfig.



What could be delaying the reboot?

I tried ServicePack 2 on WinXP Pro. - Never should have done that.
Though I only used Winblows on a small partition, it really stunk!!
And Pop-ups and warnings all over the place!
I deleted my Winblows-partition now, and only use Mandrake Linux..
Never problems with it !!
And updates.. You don't have to reboot 70 times after - not even once