Slow XP Startup & Login Since Media Player 11 Installation?

[Ben]

Hi,

I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and
Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point
where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes.

Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up
with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted.
However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with
Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once
you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes,
with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing
else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see
whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk
activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it
just seems to hang.

Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it
just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking
the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same
for other programs.

I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up
formatting due to another reason) without any issues.

Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix
it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and
see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue.

Many thanks

Ben

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Does it take this long a second reboot? There's a one-time setup completion
process that occurs on the first reboot, but not afterwards.

 

[Ben]

Does it take this long a second reboot?  There's a one-time setup completion
process that occurs on the first reboot, but not afterwards.

--
Speaking for myself only.
Seehttp://zachd.com/pss/pss.htmlfor some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.












- Show quoted text -

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, have rebooted about 8 times, each time its close to 10 minutes to
completed startup+login. Apps are taking over 2 minutes to start, IE7,
Firefox, 'My Computer' etc. Click on them, wait2 - 3 mintues, the
program will eventually open, another minutes for it to completely
load to the point where you can start surfing/begin using whatever
program you opened.

Ben

 

[Ben]

Does it take this long a second reboot?  There's a one-time setup completion
process that occurs on the first reboot, but not afterwards.

--
Speaking for myself only.
Seehttp://zachd.com/pss/pss.htmlfor some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.












- Show quoted text -

This problem seems to be related to docking/undocking, but only since
the WMP11 installation.

I got into the office today and put the laptop into my docking
station, and it booted in a minutes, and logged on in another minute,
I rebooted twice and got the same result. Now I'm back home again, its
back to taking 5 minutes to boot, and 5 minutes to login again. This
has only been happening since Friday, and the only change then was the
installation of WMP11, I don't know if its related, but its the only
thing I can think of.

Ben

 

[V Green]

Does it take this long a second reboot? There's a one-time setup completion
process that occurs on the first reboot, but not afterwards.

--
Speaking for myself only.
Seehttp://zachd.com/pss/pss.htmlfor some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.












- Show quoted text -

This problem seems to be related to docking/undocking, but only since
the WMP11 installation.

I got into the office today and put the laptop into my docking
station, and it booted in a minutes, and logged on in another minute,
I rebooted twice and got the same result. Now I'm back home again, its
back to taking 5 minutes to boot, and 5 minutes to login again. This
has only been happening since Friday, and the only change then was the
installation of WMP11, I don't know if its related, but its the only
thing I can think of.

Ben

------------------------
Ben:

Try turning off all the stuff in WMP under Options that
requires an Internet connection (find album info, etc.) It
may be wasting time calling the Mother Ship...