XP pauses for ~10mins on startup

[Guest]

Hi all,
My Win XP installation has suddenly started to pause for around 5 minutes
before I get a mouse and another 5 before the task bar appears. For the
second 5 mins, I can ctrl-alt-del, and can see that explorer is running along
with around 10 other processes. I have tried boot logging and all I get is a
text file with a lot of 'Did not load driver x'; is this correct or should it
be loading all the drivers? It's a little wierd as I haven't installed
anything since this problem has started!

Thanks!
Angus

 

[TaurArian [MVP]]

Slow computer
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

 

[Rock]

Hi all,
My Win XP installation has suddenly started to pause for around 5 minutes
before I get a mouse and another 5 before the task bar appears. For the
second 5 mins, I can ctrl-alt-del, and can see that explorer is running along
with around 10 other processes. I have tried boot logging and all I get is a
text file with a lot of 'Did not load driver x'; is this correct or should it
be loading all the drivers? It's a little wierd as I haven't installed
anything since this problem has started!

Thanks!
Angus

Another option is to do some clean boot troubleshooting.
How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

 

[Serdar Yegulalp]

Really slow boot times like this might also be a misconfigured DNS. If
the computer's got an Ethernet connection to a broadband router/modem,
try booting it unplugged from the network and see if that speeds things
up.