Really... really slow boot

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I have had Windows XP running for about two years or so. But recently I found that when doing a power-on boot, my computer is taking a really LOOOOONG time to finish its boot cycle. By really long I mean 5 minutes and some seconds by the clock every single time. After about 1 min 45 seconds the desktop screen, (With icons and wallpaper) is displayed, but it takes another almost 4 minutes before the Windows sound is heard

This has been going on for about 4 months. At first I thought it was just a normal really slow windows boot, but I am now thinking that during the boot, windows is looking for some file that is not there and is going thru a cycle where it just has to time out before continuing. Problem is I can't find what it is looking for. Or even if I am right or wrong.

Any help to fix this really...really slow boot time

 

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|I have had Windows XP running for about two years or so. But recently I found that when doing a power-on
boot, my computer is taking a really LOOOOONG time to finish its boot cycle. By really long I mean 5 minutes
and some seconds by the clock every single time. After about 1 min 45 seconds the desktop screen, (With icons
and wallpaper) is displayed, but it takes another almost 4 minutes before the Windows sound is heard.
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| This has been going on for about 4 months. At first I thought it was just a normal really slow windows
boot, but I am now thinking that during the boot, windows is looking for some file that is not there and is
going thru a cycle where it just has to time out before continuing. Problem is I can't find what it is looking
for. Or even if I am right or wrong.
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| Any help to fix this really...really slow boot time?

 

[boaz]

Does it also take that long if you boot XP to Safe Mode?
I guess it must be alot of spyware and/or virus in your computer.

I have had Windows XP running for about two years or so. But recently I

found that when doing a power-on boot, my computer is taking a really
LOOOOONG time to finish its boot cycle. By really long I mean 5 minutes and
some seconds by the clock every single time. After about 1 min 45 seconds
the desktop screen, (With icons and wallpaper) is displayed, but it takes
another almost 4 minutes before the Windows sound is heard.

This has been going on for about 4 months. At first I thought it was just

a normal really slow windows boot, but I am now thinking that during the
boot, windows is looking for some file that is not there and is going thru a
cycle where it just has to time out before continuing. Problem is I can't
find what it is looking for. Or even if I am right or wrong.

 

[Dick Ballard]

It could be Symantec Event Manager, part of the Norton anti virus
and/or internet security utilities. There is a file, ccevtmgr.exe,
that could be holding things up. The offending version was part of a
Norton update some time ago.

On my new computer, a 3.2GHz machine, the delay after desktop appears,
but before full functionality and the Windows theme, was about 90
seconds. With a slower machine it would be longer.

Symantec has a fix on their site but it is a bit hard to find. I had
the same problem at 1.0.5.2 version of ccevtmgr.exe so I downloaded
1.0.3.4 from their web site and it fixed my problem. They're fairly
specific about the procedure to replace the file.

This is where I found it (long link - if it wraps you'll have to copy
& paste to browser in pieces):

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...Document&prod=&ver=&src=sg&pcode=&svy=&csm=no

If that doesn't work, just search Symantec Support (All Knowledge
Bases) for "slow startup" and the article is at the top of the list.


Dick Ballard
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