Slow startup after logon

G

Guest

Ok, im not completly stupid with computers. Let me start with the problem.

I have a dell vostro laptop, and when i hit the power button i get to the
logon window with no problem, fast and all. However after i logon it takes
about 4 minutes for icons to show up, and to be able to use programs. I
recently reformatted. and added some drivers. (still am missing 3 base
system drivers).
but read that wrong drivers could slow it down.

I have used bootvis, and msconfig to not start certain programs i dont need
at start up. What else can i do to fix this?
Please help!
Patrick
 
A

astyles

Ok, im not completly stupid with computers. Let me start with the problem.

I have a dell vostro laptop, and when i hit the power button i get to the
logon window with no problem, fast and all. However after i logon it takes
about 4 minutes for icons to show up, and to be able to use programs. I
recently reformatted. and added some drivers. (still am missing 3 base
system drivers).
but read that wrong drivers could slow it down.

I have used bootvis, and msconfig to not start certain programs i dont need
at start up. What else can i do to fix this?
Please help!
Patrick
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Uncheck everything at startup and then enable one at a time. If all
are disabled and you still have problems then try creating a new user
profile in users and computers of control panel and loggin in with
that user. If that is faster then use that profile. Make sure and copy
your documents, favorites and history over if you decide to use
another profile.

A
 
G

Guest

Uncheck all services or startup?

astyles said:
Uncheck everything at startup and then enable one at a time. If all
are disabled and you still have problems then try creating a new user
profile in users and computers of control panel and loggin in with
that user. If that is faster then use that profile. Make sure and copy
your documents, favorites and history over if you decide to use
another profile.

A
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D

Daave

PATRICK said:
I have a dell vostro laptop, and when i hit the power button i get to
the logon window with no problem, fast and all. However after i
logon it takes about 4 minutes for icons to show up, and to be able
to use programs.
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After the four-minute process is over, does your PC run fine? If so, it
sounds like your antivirus program is scanning all the files on your
hard drive.
 
G

Guest

Yea, it runs perfect after that period, but i dont think thats it, because i
disabled my antivirus in the previous post, through msconfig, and it still
took a very long time to load
 
D

Daave

PATRICK said:
Yea, it runs perfect after that period, but i dont think thats it,
because i disabled my antivirus in the previous post, through
msconfig, and it still took a very long time to load
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Maybe you only *think* you disabled it. :)

Anyway, Process Explorer should tell you what's slowing things down:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Personally, I wouldn't be that concerned if your PC achieves an
acceptable speed in four minutes.
 
G

Guest

If it was my desktop i wouldn't mind, but for my laptop i would like it to
get up and go, so i can open it, turn it on and use it for school without
havin to wait half the class time for me to use it. Ill try this process
explorer and see.
 
D

Daave

When you run msconfig, what is listed in the Startup tab?

Which antivirus app do you run?
 
G

Guest

Nvcpl - rundll32.exe
synTPEnh - for mouse pad
Stsystra
"nwiz
"rundll32
zcfgsvc - wireless
ifrmewrk -wireless
quickset - batter management/mousepad settings
avgcc - AVG ANTIVIRUS
jusched -java
zlive- zonealarms firewall
Msnmsgr
ctfmon
 
D

Daave

I thought you said you had disabled AVG. I suppose you re-enabled it. Is
it the barebones antivirus or the deluxe suite, including the firewall?
If the latter, it's conflicting with Zone Alarm. Also, have you disabled
the Windows firewall?

Unless you have malware disguised as a legit process, you seem clean.
Search Google for details, but you'll see a number of these are not
essential. Do you overclock? If not, the first one can be disabled.

One trick is to disable half of these startup items and see if the slow
startup is fixed. Then narrow it down further.

Do you have AVG set up to automatically scan your hard drive? If so,
when is it scheduled to do so?
 
J

John John

Do you log on to a server, like the school server? A domain is a group
of computers that are centrally managed. Follow Daave's advice
regarding AV software. If after doing what Daave suggests you are still
having logon delays you can enable verbose logging and see what is going
on when you logon to the machine.

John
 
G

Guest

I do use wireless internet, connect with a router with 3 other wired
computers. I have dissabled all startup items, and rebooted with no change.
The AVG is just the antivirus, but the zone alarm has firewall, spyware and
antivirus. but i would imagine if they were conflicting when i dissabled all
startup processes that would have solved the problem. And windows firewall
is dissabled further reducing conflicts.
 
J

John John

What are those other wired computers? I take it they are just part of a
workgroup? At school when you logon you are not connected to any other
computers, you always have and just logon to the laptop, as a stand
alone machine?

As Daave mentioned, if your AV software is scanning at boot time it may
cause a delay at logon. If that isn't the problem then the laptop may
be looking for non existent network connections or it may be fiddling
about trying to apply Group Policies, you would see that if you do what
I told you earlier.

John
 
G

Guest

Well if it was AVG it would have been fixed when i dissabled it at start
up... the other computers are just my house computers. I havent connected to
school yet.
 
G

Guest

Guess ya'll just givin up?

PATRICK said:
Well if it was AVG it would have been fixed when i dissabled it at start
up... the other computers are just my house computers. I havent connected to
school yet.
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J

John John

You didn't answer Daave's last post (re: AVG) so we don't know where you
are at with your troubleshooting efforts. Did you enable verbose loging?

John
 

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