Setup- But what?

[Mikey]

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

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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

Get a list of what starts up when you startup the computer/logon.

 

[Don Phillipson]

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".

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.)

 

[Paul]

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

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

 

[Mikey]

Get a list of what starts up when you startup the computer/logon.

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

 

[Mikey]

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".

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.)

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.

 

[Mikey]

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

Yeah, I looked at AutorunS. Nothing looked out of whack there.