Taking ages to boot up

[Amanda Gilmour]

When XP boots up it takes ages to boot up. It gets to the Welcome screen
then loads my wallpaper. It then takes about 3 mins for windows explorer to
boot up and there seems to be no hard disk activity at all?
Any ideas what could be causing this

Many Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316434

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| When XP boots up it takes ages to boot up. It gets to the Welcome screen
| then loads my wallpaper. It then takes about 3 mins for windows explorer to
| boot up and there seems to be no hard disk activity at all?
| Any ideas what could be causing this
|
| Many Thanks

 

[Jabez Gan]

Amanda,

Check Event Viewer and see if there is any errors with any services when
booting up. (Event Viewer is under Control Panel > Administration Tools).

You might also want to visit http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
for which services is safe to disable. This will speed up your boot process.

Also try a defrag of your hard disk too.