Delay on Startup...

[Guest]

i got an issue with VISTA. when my computer boot up after the welcome screen,
every thing load up real fast then the hard drive just stop running. 20 sec
later it starts to run again. during that 20 sec delay i cant open some
programs. EX: diskeeper. it says the service is not started. but after that
20 sec the screen blinks and the hard drive start running again. and i can
open any program now. help me with this, i hate this problem.

the same thing happens with the wifi network. during the 20sec delay the HP
wireless Assistant does not appear and the network system icon has the red x.
but i cannot access the network center (nor the control panel).
then the screen blinks and the HP WA appears, connects to my works network
and everything goes to normal.

in the event viewer (performance log) i noticed this message:

Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 61354ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 02/03/2007 20:13:26
and

BootTsVersion 2
BootStartTime 2007-03-02T20:13:26.718Z
BootEndTime 2007-03-02T20:16:16.398Z
SystemBootInstance 92
UserBootInstance 79
BootTime 61354
MainPathBootTime 30854
BootKernelInitTime 28
BootDriverInitTime 838
BootDevicesInitTime 11761
BootPrefetchInitTime 93412
BootPrefetchBytes 464822272
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 6301
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 1259
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 614
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 541
BootExplorerInitTime 1834
BootNumStartupApps 34
BootPostBootTime 30500
BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
BootIsDegradation false
BootIsStepDegradation false
BootIsGradualDegradation false
BootImprovementDelta 0
BootDegradationDelta 0
BootIsRootCauseIdentified false

P.S. my laptop is: tc4400 (tablet pc), core duo 1.83, 1.5GB ram, NTFS 80GB
HDD. it came with windows xp tablet pc 2005 preinstalled and i bought vista
ultimate x86 (32bit) and did an upgrade. i installed all the hp compatible
version from the hp support site.

P.S.2) i made a complete pc backup and tried the "clean installation"
method. the same thing. aftes installing all the drivers it has the same
delay. (during the early reboots it didnt have the exact 20sec delay but it
had a 10-12sec delay in the logon screen after typing the pass - welcome). i
the upgrade installation i noticed only a 3-4sec delay in the logon screen
and the full 20sec delay when the processes start.

P.S. 3) with windows xp the statup was a 10sec "job" with no delays and
errors...

thank you in advance.
Alex

 

[hbutler]

Hi Alex,

It's hard for me to tell if you suspect Diskeeper causing the problem
or if you are just refering to Diskeeper as being affecting by the
startup delay you have described. I suspect that there is another
service or device driver that is attempting to initialize. If you
need assistance with Diskeeper, please contact our award winning Tech
Support staff at (e-mail address removed).

Thanks,

Howard Butler
Technical Support Officer
Diskeeper Corporation

 

[Guest]

do you know which service might causing the problem?

 

[Night Keeper]

Do you have a home network? If so, have you mapped any network drives or
have shortcuts on your destop to a folder on a network computer? If this is
the situation: move all network shortcuts into a folder (you can create a
new folder on the desktop). If the drives are mapped, reboot the PC or PCs
that the mapped drives are on then see if your system boots any faster. I
ran into issues with very slow boot times with XP before and it was all
because of another PC on the network that mine was trying to connect to
during boot up. (Note: If the wireless is not connecting automatically, it
would be better to remove any mapped network drives. Your system will wait
on the network to time out before it allows Windows to load.