Very Very Slow To Boot

caithomas44

caithomas44

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Hey

Over the last few months my computer has become very very slow to boot.

Unfortunatley i am not in a posistion top reload the machine at present as i have vast databases for my dissertation in various places, which can not be moved. (though a full file backup is taken daily).

It gets past teh splash screen then it gets to the vista loading screen and can take a minute for the little green bar to do its thing a few times before it moves, sometime the little green bar wont move and i need to restart the pc, then it runs fine!

as soon as it is in vista it speeds up though?


what do people think? and what can i do?


i've tried all the normal routes of registry cleaning though this shouldn't affect the boot process), defrag'ing, disk repair.

There is no clunking comming from the drive, and it is a 6 month old 500gb samsung i believe.

Though the instalation is a mirror copy from my old drive.
 
Try removing all connections from it usb/lan etc.

Faulty hardware connected to a pc can slow down the boot time.

Just have the bare minimum connected.
 
Have you checked Event viewer to see if it is waiting for something which is timing out.
Check the system log in Event Viewer for unusual warnings or errors.
 
From the system viewer i got the following red errors

crash dump initilisation failure

\SystemRoot\SysWow64\Drivers\StarOpen.SYS has been blocked from loading due to incompatibility with this system. Please contact your software vendor for a compatible version of the driver.

Crash dump initialization failed!

Unable to initialize the security package Kerberos for server side authentication. The data field contains the error number.

The DgiVecp service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the device specified.

The DU Meter Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
BtHidBus
StarOpen

Windows Servicing identified that package KB905866(Update) is not applicable for this system

The entry <C:\USERS\CAI THOMAS\APPDATA\ROAMING\MOZILLA\FIREFOX\PROFILES\6HZUC0W8.DEFAULT\COOKIES.SQLITE-JOURNAL> in the hash map cannot be updated.

Context: Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x8007001f
 
Any ideas on those errors?

I will try and unplug all usb devices (bar mouse and keyboard) and see what happens, i will also try and find a ps2 keyboard and mouse.
 
caithomas44 said:
Any ideas on those errors?

I will try and unplug all usb devices (bar mouse and keyboard) and see what happens, i will also try and find a ps2 keyboard and mouse.
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Nope sorry. :( Done a quick google on those errors and none sound like timeout issues. How did you get on with all USB devices unplugged?
 
There is nothing running on startup except the windows default registry entry. I always run my pc like that, if i want a program to run then i will open it lol!

Well i have narrowed it down to one of 3 things!

Either the G11 keyboard or microsoft laser 6000 mouse, or it could be an error message i got ages ago! i got an error message saying an overclock via Ai suite had failed, yet i have never overclocked the machine, let alone installed Ai suite...

i've check bios and everything seems normal .. :s
 
From your error message it looks like a driver/part of a program that isn't signed or may be trying to do something windows considers malicious. The 32bit emulation (WOW64) is throwing a wobbly about this and preventing it from executing.

google-ing staropen.sys may help, seems the software may be malicious? or just badly coded.
 
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