SP-2 and much slower reboot time

[Bill Cotter]

SP-2 has really lengthened reboot time. Fortunately I don't reboot very often,
but this is now quite time consuming. To be specific, the time from the BIOS
screen to the desktop wallpaper is about the same, and it's always been rather
snappy. But the time now from the first appearance of the wallpaper to a
"settled state" where one can actually begin using the system (hard drive light
begins to go intermittent at least, instead of almost always on) has gone from
about the 30-60 second range up to something approaching nearly 5 full minutes.
It takes *forever* to get finished loading and settled down now -- on a box
with a P-4 2.53 GHz and a gigabyte of RAM.

I use my own firewall and AV, and I do my updates manually; am I okay to
disable the Windows Firewall and Security Center services? I think I have no
real need for them, and they obviously take resources. My wife shares the
cable with me, but we don't use ICS, we have a router.

Anything else anyone can think of to speed up the startup process (more
services I can kill off)? I do run a lot of stuff at boot, but I have the
resources for it, and it was never this slow prior to SP-2. This is not a
figment of my imagination; this is *really* significantly slower now.

Thanks

 

[Nero]

Well I put it on mine(amd xp2800 with 1 gig ram)and it never made mine
take any longer to boot...........

 

[zippy]

Mine has slowed down some too, but not nowhere near five minutes.
Everything loads pretty quick except for Windows Security Alert, that takes
the longest.

 

[Stephen Harris]

SP-2 has really lengthened reboot time. Fortunately I don't reboot very
often,
but this is now quite time consuming. To be specific, the time from the
BIOS
screen to the desktop wallpaper is about the same, and it's always been
rather
snappy. But the time now from the first appearance of the wallpaper to a
"settled state" where one can actually begin using the system (hard drive
light
begins to go intermittent at least, instead of almost always on) has gone
from
about the 30-60 second range up to something approaching nearly 5 full
minutes.
It takes *forever* to get finished loading and settled down now -- on a
box
with a P-4 2.53 GHz and a gigabyte of RAM.

I use my own firewall and AV, and I do my updates manually; am I okay to
disable the Windows Firewall and Security Center services? I think I have
no
real need for them, and they obviously take resources. My wife shares the
cable with me, but we don't use ICS, we have a router.

Anything else anyone can think of to speed up the startup process (more
services I can kill off)? I do run a lot of stuff at boot, but I have the
resources for it, and it was never this slow prior to SP-2. This is not a
figment of my imagination; this is *really* significantly slower now.

Thanks

This seems very strange. I have a 2gig cpu with 512mb ram that runs
faster by about 2 minutes to startup; which is slower than my 1gig cput
with 256mb ram. The major difference between my two computers is
that the slower one has .Net programming stuff.

The best way to remove startup services is with services.msc in
START --> Run , not with msconfig. Over in the lower right
hand corner next to the clock, I used to have 9 icons, now I have 3.
You can set it up so they load on demand, which is slower, but not
if you never actually use the process. I read the following advice.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

 

[Trog Dog]

SP-2 has really lengthened reboot time. Fortunately I don't reboot very
often,
but this is now quite time consuming. To be specific, the time from the
BIOS
screen to the desktop wallpaper is about the same, and it's always been
rather
snappy. But the time now from the first appearance of the wallpaper to a
"settled state" where one can actually begin using the system (hard drive
light
begins to go intermittent at least, instead of almost always on) has gone
from
about the 30-60 second range up to something approaching nearly 5 full
minutes.
It takes *forever* to get finished loading and settled down now -- on a
box
with a P-4 2.53 GHz and a gigabyte of RAM.

I use my own firewall and AV, and I do my updates manually; am I okay to
disable the Windows Firewall and Security Center services? I think I have
no
real need for them, and they obviously take resources. My wife shares the
cable with me, but we don't use ICS, we have a router.

Anything else anyone can think of to speed up the startup process (more
services I can kill off)? I do run a lot of stuff at boot, but I have the
resources for it, and it was never this slow prior to SP-2. This is not a
figment of my imagination; this is *really* significantly slower now.

Thanks

Same here, I use 3rd party firewall and have 3 different AV's loaded
although only one is resident, I wonder if its the security centre scanning
these and seeing if they are active?

 

[Les Herrman]

Same here, I use 3rd party firewall and have 3 different AV's loaded
although only one is resident, I wonder if its the security centre scanning
these and seeing if they are active?

I didnt see any slow down whatsoever. In fact I think mine actually
boots a little bit quicker.

Course I do have everything in the security center turned off as I do
have a third party firewall and AV. And I dont want auto updates on.

 

[Bill Cotter]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:23:43 -0500, in article

I didnt see any slow down whatsoever. In fact I think mine actually
boots a little bit quicker.

Course I do have everything in the security center turned off as I do
have a third party firewall and AV. And I dont want auto updates on.

Same here with Security service and Firewall service *disabled* (and no auto
updates). But it doesn't improve the load time after the desktop appears. The
boot to the desktop has always been quick. But no longer does the desktop mean
"in 30 seconds or so".

 

[Natéag]

Different experience.
Load time is now extremely fast.
An I Internet access is also fast, while it could be very
slow before SP2.
For some software it may be necessary to individually disable
the firewall.

 

[jonr]

SP-2 has really lengthened reboot time.

Mine seems to boot faster...takes about 1-1/2 minutes. The whole boot
sequence seems smooth. Even after the system start-up, I have AVG anti-
virus installed and it seemed like I used to have to wait on it to check
files before I installed SP2...now it seems to be doing whatever it does
faster.

Dell 4600 P-4 2.8
512MB ram
80 GB HD
NVIDIA FX-5200

I downloaded the 265MB file from Microsofts site and upgraded from that
last night. Everything seems to be working fine so far.

Jon R