Windows Startup

[JB]

I am running a 1 year old dell with plenty of memory and hard drive
space. However, when I boot to through windows to the user profile
screen, it takes a long time. Then, when I select my profile icon it
takes a long time - two to three minutes to actually load windows.

I have tried everything I know how - changing all the startups,
cleaning the registry, using spy bot, windows doctor, norton utilities
etc. Nothing is working!

Help!

 

[Ron Badour]

What AV program do you have--Norton? If so, dump it and get one of the free
ones such as AVG.

Run msconfig.exe and check the startup tab to determine what you have
starting at boot. Use Google.com to identify those entries you don't
recognize. My personal rule of thumb is that only essential programs and
those used during every computer session are allowed to start at boot. I
hope you don't have Norton Utilities starting.

 

[Rock]

I am running a 1 year old dell with plenty of memory and hard drive
space. However, when I boot to through windows to the user profile
screen, it takes a long time. Then, when I select my profile icon it
takes a long time - two to three minutes to actually load windows.

I have tried everything I know how - changing all the startups,
cleaning the registry, using spy bot, windows doctor, norton utilities
etc. Nothing is working!

What happens when you start in Safe Mode? Is the boot up still take the
longer time?

 

[David Webb]

It may be that a process is consuming almost all of the processor's capacity.

You can verify this by right clicking on the Taskbar and selecting Task Manager.
In the tab Processes check to see if one of the svchost.exe entries is running
the CPU value close to maximum range. If so, that's the problem and it's being
caused by a recent update and/or Windows installer. Here's a link to a procedure
that may fix your problem:

http://mowgreen.castlecops.com/archives/2007/04/the_infamous_svchost_issue.html

You should only have to follow the initial steps in the procedure, e.g.,
download both the new Update Agent and applicable KB927891 file, close IE and
then install the new Update Agent and then install KB927891 and restart your
system.

If that doesn't solve the issue, post your problem scenario to the
microsoft.public.windowsupdate newsgroup. State what you already have done and
what the Task Manager is showing in CPU usage.

If it fixed the problem and nothing else is running, the System Idle Process
should be reading between 90 and 99 percent in the Task Manager.

 

[C.Joseph Drayton]

I am running a 1 year old dell with plenty of memory and hard drive
space. However, when I boot to through windows to the user profile
screen, it takes a long time. Then, when I select my profile icon it
takes a long time - two to three minutes to actually load windows.

I have tried everything I know how - changing all the startups,
cleaning the registry, using spy bot, windows doctor, norton utilities
etc. Nothing is working!

Help!

Hi JB,

There can be any number of things causing this problem;

1) On a network (especially domains)
2) Large number of fonts
3) Loading malware detectors
4) Malware detectors that are set to do a scan on boot
5) Processes being loaded

I have a HP Pavilion dv8000z, and it takes about 5.5 minutes
to boot. Considering that I have 73 processes loading, 20
helper utilities and more than 400 fonts, this is not
surprising.

I constantly see complaints about boot time on this news
group, and I have to admit, I just don't get it. It takes
five minutes once a day. When I need to move my laptop, I
put it into hibernate (takes about 75 seconds to go in and
90 seconds to come out (2GB of RAM)).

If your system is stable, why would you need to boot more
than once a day? If only once a day . . . is 5 minutes
really such a hardship?

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

"A promise is nothing more than an attempt,
to respond to an unreasonable request."

 

[Plato]

I have a HP Pavilion dv8000z, and it takes about 5.5 minutes
to boot. Considering that I have 73 processes loading, 20
helper utilities and more than 400 fonts, this is not
surprising.

Reminds me of the Apollo 13 movie. ie when it took a long time to reboot
their onboard computer