slow boot

S

seniorhelper

Booting Win XP Home Edition takes close to 2 minutes.
Progress is normal until "Welcome" screen. Have unchecked
unnecessary items in 'Startup' on System Configuration
Utility. On similar pc, boot takes about 30 seconds.
Have installed all xp updates.
Suggestions?
 
G

Gerry Cornell

Look at the Reports in Event Viewer and post a copy here.

Make an exact note of the precise text of any error message. Minor
discrepancies can
make it harder to search for information about the error message.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, Event
Viewer.
When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID,
Source
and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&Product=winxp

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click
for further information and you can copy using copy and paste.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the
error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling
two
pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now start your
message
(email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This will paste the
info from the
Event Viewer Error Report complete with links into the message. Make sure
this is
the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer.

Links giving some information about specific Error Reports are:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/support/ee.asp

http://www.eventid.net/search.asp

These links, however, do not contain information about each and every Error
Report.

In Event Viewer there is no facility to print Error Reports. A workaround is
copy and
paste the Error Report into an email, send it to yourself and print off the
copy in your
Inbox or your Sent Items folder.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA

Stourport, Worcs, England
Enquire, plan and execute.
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Please tell the newsgroup how any
suggested solution worked for you.

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T

Terry Godby

-----Original Message-----
Booting Win XP Home Edition takes close to 2 minutes.
Progress is normal until "Welcome" screen. Have unchecked
unnecessary items in 'Startup' on System Configuration
Utility. On similar pc, boot takes about 30 seconds.
Have installed all xp updates.
Suggestions?
.
My two-day-old XP-equipped computer does the same
thing. I hope somebody helps us.
 
G

Gerry Cornell

Terry

Have you tried what I suggested 3 hours before you posted? With what
result?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FCA

Stourport, Worcs, England
Enquire, plan and execute.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please tell the newsgroup how any
suggested solution worked for you.

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