Slow Bootup

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Humbertt

Hi, i'm experiencing very difficult times with my XP pro.
From one day to the other my system lags during boot up
and during signing on. It takes about 10 minutes for this
process. I have tried to boot up in safe mode and i still
get the same experience. During the safe mode boot up i
was able to go into the task manager and nothing unusal
appear (ie cpu or applications). Is there any way to boot
up in mininual way to see whats wrong?
 
Humbertt said:
Hi, i'm experiencing very difficult times with my XP pro.
From one day to the other my system lags during boot up
and during signing on. It takes about 10 minutes for this
process. I have tried to boot up in safe mode and i still
get the same experience. During the safe mode boot up i
was able to go into the task manager and nothing unusal
appear (ie cpu or applications). Is there any way to boot
up in mininual way to see whats wrong?
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Unfortunately, that is what Safe Mode is supposed to do, so if it has no
effect....

1) Never underestimate the value of a good, Chkdsk/f (or Error Checking your
drive), followed by a run of Defrag.

2) Verify that your Virtual Memory settings make sense... see this link for
pointers:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/mcfedries/03june16.asp

3) Consider booting without a network connection to eliminate a
network/handshake problem, or lag. (if you're on broadband)
4) Typically, what you describe, is caused by a bad/corrupt driver, or a
conflict among drivers (such as a sound card's driver, with a motherboards
built-in 'sound card' driver - if your mother board has the option, as many
do, these days) Having *both* enabled can cause you grief.

5) Consider disabling, or uninstalling some of your peripherals (scanner,
printer, camera, for example) in Device Manager -*without* actually
disconnecting the device from your machine... this will allow XP to
autodetect it, and install the correct (not corrupt) drivers. You can do
that on a incremental basis, until you've found the culprit, should it be
caused by a driver in ill health.

There are some starters.
 
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