Very slow boot process

[antonio]

I'm using XP Pro and Norton System Works 2003. My booting
used to be pretty quick but now takes 1min. 51 secs. to
complete and allow me to use it. I'm using NTFS with 512
Mb memory. 1.4G AMD processor. I restored my paging file
and have defragged my system regularly. The only startup
programs are my H/PT45xi which I power off most times,
Nortons CcApp&CcRegVfy, and my ATI launchpad. I open the
task manager and see 22 processes run immediately then 1
of those stops. After another 1 3/4 mins 4 more processes
start. They are:NOPDB.exe,NPPROCT.exe,NAVAPSER.exe,and
alg.exe. I've looked on the Symantec site but there are
no knowledge base articles referring to this problem. I
also use DSL and have a PPPoE adapter I click on to
initiate internet access. My event mgr. shows XP
initiates network processes without my having connected
to the net. How can I get the Norton program to start
when the rest of the processes do as it did before?

 

[Tony B.]

It's the CcEvtMgr.exe. Download update from Symantec
version 1.03. You probably have 1.09. Turn off the
Symantec Event Manager service. Using explorer locate the
symantec common files and rename CcEvtMgr.exe
CcEvtMgr.bak. Then move the updated version you
downloaded into this folder. Reboot and you're back to
normal.

 

[Paul B T Hodges]

Hey Antonio,

Are there any disk or file system errors in the system event log, timeouts,
crc , or parity errors. Has chkdsk ever run when you started the sytem ?

Make sure that windows xp is communicating with your hard disk at the
correct speed. If it is getting a lot of errors it will keep dropping the
disk interface speed.

Go into

control panel/system/hardware/device manager

Open "ide ata/atapi controllers" by clicking on the plus sign

Check both primary and secondary controllers, double click on each in turn
and select the advanced settings tab. Make sure that "Use DMA if available"
is selected, and that the "Current Transfer Mode" of the channel with you
hard disk shows "Ultra DMA Mode" This will show Mode 4 for ATA66, Mode 5 for
ATA 100 and Mode 6 for ATA133.

If its dropped down to PIO or an Ultra DMA Mode lower than the speed of your
disk, then disk access speeds and hence booting which is really I/O
intensive will be slow.

CDROM drives used to use PIO, but more modern ones will probably show as
"Multi Word DMA Mode 2"

Paul