Slow bootup

[Tony MS]

I have the following problem.

My system takes around 2 mins to boot up. According to bootvis, the system
is doing Logon+Serv from +25 to +108 secs, with no disk or cpu activity
after around +30. Also, another pc on the LAN discloses no network activity
in this period.

System is XP. It used to load ok; then I had a virus, needed to do a big
repair, and am now back on SP1. This problem is the one residue of my virus
problems. I am pretty sure I've got rid of all viruses and other pests -
I've used AVG, Trend, Stinger and Ad-Aware, in both safe mode and normal,
with sytem restore disabled, and all now report the system is clean. The HD
is defragged. I have few startup programs, and anyway this problem is
earlier in the cycle.

Can anyone advise me how to proceed to get this down please?

Tony

 

[Guest]

You might check all the things in your Services that start up automatically,
also programs that start up in your System Tray.

For Services, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Many
things that you don't need can be set to Manual rather than Automatic Start,
if you're not sure what something is try a Google search on it, see if it's
something you want running or not. If you don't mind trying things, try and
see if it hurts anything, you can always restart it later.

For Startup items, go to Run, type "msconfig" and hit enter. Click the
Start Up tab all the way to the right, then uncheck boxes on all the things
you don't want starting. When you restart, check the box that says "Don't
give me this message again" to avoid running the MSCONFIG utility on startup,
and you should be running leaner.

The other option that comes to mind is if the virus, or some adware, left
some .DLL files registered, but removed them. Windows will search for the
file and not find it. This can slow you down a lot, but usually you will get
an error, "Could not find *.dll" or something equally obvious. If this is
the case, you have to unregister that .dll via the dos-prompt console, you
can find directions in a DOS primer if you need to do that.

Hope this helps.

 

[Joe G]

I have exactly the same problem. See earlier post on 26th November
Bootvis shows a 70 sec period of no activity between 22s and 92s.
Originally use to be OK. Something has changed recently which is slowing the
system startup down.
I also have a problem with my USB set up. The drivers are not loading
properly. I think it is a hardware problem.
Temp disabling of all startup programs did not change this.

Joe

 

[Tony MS]

FIXED IT! Many thanks.

The problem was a service called DCOM Server Process Launcher, which had
status "Starting", and presumbly was holding everything up while tried..

No idea yet whether it matters - everything seems to work without it, so
far. A brief search suggests that it belongs to SP2, and maybe was only half
rolled out when I reverted to SP1

Cheers

Tony

You might check all the things in your Services that start up automatically,
also programs that start up in your System Tray.

For Services, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Many
things that you don't need can be set to Manual rather than Automatic Start,
if you're not sure what something is try a Google search on it, see if it's
something you want running or not. If you don't mind trying things, try and
see if it hurts anything, you can always restart it later.

For Startup items, go to Run, type "msconfig" and hit enter. Click the
Start Up tab all the way to the right, then uncheck boxes on all the things
you don't want starting. When you restart, check the box that says "Don't
give me this message again" to avoid running the MSCONFIG utility on
startup,
and you should be running leaner.

The other option that comes to mind is if the virus, or some adware, left
some .DLL files registered, but removed them. Windows will search for the
file and not find it. This can slow you down a lot, but usually you will
get
an error, "Could not find *.dll" or something equally obvious. If this is
the case, you have to unregister that .dll via the dos-prompt console, you
can find directions in a DOS primer if you need to do that.

Hope this helps.

 

[Joe G]

Setting the DCOM Server Process Launcher to manual has also fixed my
problem.
Windows now gets to the login screen in about 20 secs instead of 90 secs

Joe