Long startup delay after SP2, is it mrxsmb.sys?

[XPSP2 Man]

Hi,

After I installed XP SP2, and ran windows update (which installed .Net
framework 1.1 SP1), at startup, after the login screen, I get the desktop
wallpaper, and a pause for about a minute, then icons and taskbar will
appear. before SP2 this happens immediately.

I tried to run bootvis, and I saw the drive mrxsmb.sys has 3 delays of 15
seconds each, I didn't run bootvis before sp2, so I don't know if it used to
make these delays before.
another notice in bootvis is that my Panda Antivirus Platinum7.0 driver
pavdrv51.sys also has many entries, each delay less than a second, but it
seems to be only scanning files, not causing the delay.

I read other posts, they complain about DHCP, but I have my network card
with static IP, so this should not be a problem.

I also installed recently ATI Radeon Driver 4.9.

so, I had SP1 and all was ok, I updated to SP2, .Net framework 1.1 SP1, and
ATI driver and now I have the delay, which part is the cause, any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Rock]

Hi,

After I installed XP SP2, and ran windows update (which installed .Net
framework 1.1 SP1), at startup, after the login screen, I get the desktop
wallpaper, and a pause for about a minute, then icons and taskbar will
appear. before SP2 this happens immediately.

I tried to run bootvis, and I saw the drive mrxsmb.sys has 3 delays of 15
seconds each, I didn't run bootvis before sp2, so I don't know if it used to
make these delays before.
another notice in bootvis is that my Panda Antivirus Platinum7.0 driver
pavdrv51.sys also has many entries, each delay less than a second, but it
seems to be only scanning files, not causing the delay.

I read other posts, they complain about DHCP, but I have my network card
with static IP, so this should not be a problem.

I also installed recently ATI Radeon Driver 4.9.

so, I had SP1 and all was ok, I updated to SP2, .Net framework 1.1 SP1, and
ATI driver and now I have the delay, which part is the cause, any ideas?

Thanks

Defrag. Then it needs at least 3 reboots for the boot prefetch to work.
The built in optimization routine runs every 3 days and it takes
several days for the prefetch folder to be rebuilt. If still having
slowness do 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