I've got a similar problem. A few weeks ago I reformatted
my hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP, downloaded all
updates including SP 2, got one of the free startup
control programs and turned off the junk I wasn't using,
disabled Windows Messenger (what crap that is). My laptop
was booting up just like it did when in was new, it took
less than 15 seconds from pushing the "on" button to
getting on the Internet--brilliant!
Then the problem began. I moved 3.5 GB of MP3s I had
stored on an old computer to my laptop and installed
Media Player 10. Now booting up is down to a crawl. On
the opening Windows screen, the one with the little row
of cursors dancing across, that display goes on and on
and ON, with the cursors sometimes stopping their little
dance, and then starting up again. Meanwhile, when the
black screen that appears right before the desktop comes
up, that's almost like a permanent fixture too. What took
15 seconds now takes about three minutes.
Because the problem started when I restored my music
library, I Uninstalled Musicmatch Jukebox, fearing a
conflict with Media Player 10--no help. Uninstalled MP 10-
-no help. My guess is, during startup, the computer is
now loading all those MP3 tunes into---WHAT? There was no
library to load them into while MP10 and jukebox were
uninstalled. Tried MP10 support site, no help. Tried an e-
mail to Microsoft Support, got the standard
autoreply "Dear insignificant Windows user, screw you,
solve the problem yourself. And thanks for using
Microsoft products!" message. Have spent hours searching
various XP help sites without success.
Can anyone relate?
