Start Up Speed

[Guest]

I have an end user and when he first turns on his computer in the morning,
after he logs in it take 6 minutes for his start up programs to start and for
the computer to be usable. However if he reboots, if takes less than 20
seconds. Can anyone tell me what would cause this. It is a Dell 4700 with 2
gigs of RAM, plenty of free disk space.

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

"Warm booting" and "Cold booting" differ in that the Warm BIOS has already
found the devices. For Cold, some device is warming up and then 'answering'
on the bus. They could be seeing the first signs of a failing device.

Windows Restart, and a Warm boot differ in that the BIOS retains the
allocated interrups for startup devices. And, in XP and better, there's not
much difference. The drivers don't do the old 'round and round' loading the
devices one at a time, but consecutively, in a single chain.

Both of those things take time.