SP2 slow bootup problem solved

[John Spencer]

Running XP@Home on a 3.2Ghz P4. After installing SP2 the bootup process was
painfully slow, first there was a delay on the Welcome screen, then finally
when the desktop background came on there was yet another delay before the
icons appeared and the machine was usable. Running Diagnostic Startup in
Msconfig confirmed the problem was a System Service, after shutting them
down one by one the culprit was the Plug and Play service.

With the Plug and Play service disabled, the computer boot-up was the
fastest of any Operating System Microsoft has ever released.

 

[Guest]

MORON

 

[Guest]

the plug and play service may not be the issue, having
this service disabled will prevent you from installing
devices, using disk management, will cause your device
manager to be blank, among other issues to numerous to
mention.

your problem is most likely a device attached to the
system. causing the slow startup time, ofcourse this is
assuming you have done the SP2 install properly.

 

[John Butler]

How strange. I find that with P&P disabled my sytem loads slwoer. it
certainly is slower than with SP1
Jon

 

[Rock]

Running XP@Home on a 3.2Ghz P4. After installing SP2 the bootup process was
painfully slow, first there was a delay on the Welcome screen, then finally
when the desktop background came on there was yet another delay before the
icons appeared and the machine was usable. Running Diagnostic Startup in
Msconfig confirmed the problem was a System Service, after shutting them
down one by one the culprit was the Plug and Play service.

With the Plug and Play service disabled, the computer boot-up was the
fastest of any Operating System Microsoft has ever released.

Are you talking about Plug and Play or Universal Plug and Play? In
general you could have big problems w/o P&P. On the other hand UP&P may
not be needed.

 

[John Butler]

I think that Rock has got it right. UP&P is for non-PC gear like amplifiers
to refrigerators while P&P is to allow the PC to detect new hardware. As
long as one is not conecting anything new one can do without it but when
connecting a new device it safes a huge hassle in installing hte drivers. AS
I said earlier I do not find having it enabled affects the speed at which
SP2 boots.

 

[Jason Peterson]

Running XP@Home on a 3.2Ghz P4. After installing SP2 the bootup process was
painfully slow, first there was a delay on the Welcome screen, then finally
when the desktop background came on there was yet another delay before the
icons appeared and the machine was usable. Running Diagnostic Startup in
Msconfig confirmed the problem was a System Service, after shutting them
down one by one the culprit was the Plug and Play service.

With the Plug and Play service disabled, the computer boot-up was the
fastest of any Operating System Microsoft has ever released.

I have run into a perhaps related issue. I am running WinXP Pro.
After SP2 the machine boots fine and I can log in but then a few
moments later it slows to a grinding halt and I can hear the disk
thrashing in a very regular pattern. The system is completely
unresponsive with the exception of about five seconds every minute. I
have used msconfig to try booting under different scenarios and seem
to have narrowed it to plug 'n play. When I uncheck that service and
boot, everything is just fine. Has anyone else experienced any
trouble with this? Could it be something else that is just making it
seem related to the plug 'n play service?