Excessive Boot Time

[Steve Giannoni]

P-IV running Windows XP home, takes about 12 minutes to completely
boot. Display completes in a timely fashion, but the hard disk churns
on and on and nothing is useable until it completes, etc. Any help
greatly appreciated & thanks ...

 

[GMAN]

P-IV running Windows XP home, takes about 12 minutes to completely
boot. Display completes in a timely fashion, but the hard disk churns
on and on and nothing is useable until it completes, etc. Any help
greatly appreciated & thanks ...

Download MALWAREBYTES Antimalware, and run that and see if it finds anything.

Free version
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

[Jim T.]

P-IV running Windows XP home, takes about 12 minutes to completely
boot. Display completes in a timely fashion, but the hard disk churns
on and on and nothing is useable until it completes, etc. Any help
greatly appreciated & thanks ...

Microsoft's BootVis is a good tool for seeing what is happening. It
helped me. Mostly I found that the system was running a full scan.

 

[Miguel Giménez]

El 30/11/2010 16:58, Steve Giannoni escribió:

P-IV running Windows XP home, takes about 12 minutes to completely
boot. Display completes in a timely fashion, but the hard disk churns
on and on and nothing is useable until it completes, etc. Any help
greatly appreciated& thanks ...

You can be inside the "PIO trap" like I did (with the help of a faulty
power suppply), see http://winhlp.com/node/10

 

[Jim T.]

P-IV running Windows XP home, takes about 12 minutes to completely
boot. Display completes in a timely fashion, but the hard disk churns
on and on and nothing is useable until it completes, etc. Any help
greatly appreciated & thanks ...

Microsoft's BootVis is a good tool for seeing what is happening. It
helped me. Mostly I found that the system was running a full scan.