Setup- But what?

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The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box flashes by. It
goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".

Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?

Thanks, Mike
 
Mikey said:
The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog
box flashes by. It goes so quickly I can't read anything except
"Setup".
Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?

Thanks, Mike
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Get a list of what starts up when you startup the computer/logon.
 
The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box flashes by. It
goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".
Click to expand...

What happens when you key PAUSE?
(Duration of boot menus, if this is what you have, is set
in C:\BOOT.INI by these next two lines
[boot loader]
timeout=30
(which means 30 seconds on screen.)
 
Mikey said:
The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box
flashes by. It goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".

Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?

Thanks, Mike
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Try Autoruns. It lists a lot of different sources of things
that run automatically at startup. For example, I have a mixer
panel from an old sound card, that shouldn't be loading, and
by using the tick box next to that entry ("mixer.exe"), I can
turn it off.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Paul
 
Get a list of what starts up when you startup the computer/logon.
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I drove thru the entries in AutorunS, and nothing leapt out at me.
Glad to see you here. I wasn't sure anybody would survive the MS group shutdown. ;-o
 
The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box flashes by. It
goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".
Click to expand...

What happens when you key PAUSE?
(Duration of boot menus, if this is what you have, is set
in C:\BOOT.INI by these next two lines
[boot loader]
timeout=30
(which means 30 seconds on screen.)
Click to expand...

Pause has no effect. I'm talking about somewhere after my AV starts, and the network
is active, so it's well after the desktop is painted.
 
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