Loooooong bootup time

chameleon · 27 Oct 2009 at 15:48

My PC has started taking ages to boot up. It used to be about 2 mins from hitting the switch to opening spamkiller to look at my mail. It is now over double that. I don't see any more processes running than usual and event viewer dosen't show any problems.
Only stuff I have changed lately is updating a few drivers, X-Fi, Nforce and display.

theheyes · 27 Oct 2009 at 16:58

At what point is it slow? During the initial boot before Windows loads, before or after login?

chameleon · 27 Oct 2009 at 22:59

After login. It just seems to take forever to load. Mcafee spamkiller is the last thing to start up so I know it's done when that pops up. The hard drive just seems to chunter away for ages. It's probably related but sometimes shutdown takes an age too. It'll sit there like it's thinking about it for a minute or so before it logs off n shuts down. SOMETHING is running or clogging it up but I have no idea what.

Azuse05 · 27 Oct 2009 at 23:03

Sounds like vista, in which case you'd better just get used to it. If it isn't vista we need more details.

Raumarik · 27 Oct 2009 at 23:56

chameleon said:
After login. It just seems to take forever to load. Mcafee spamkiller is the last thing to start up so I know it's done when that pops up. The hard drive just seems to chunter away for ages. It's probably related but sometimes shutdown takes an age too. It'll sit there like it's thinking about it for a minute or so before it logs off n shuts down. SOMETHING is running or clogging it up but I have no idea what.

What AV are you running? Mcafee has set alarm bells ringing, awful software.

chameleon · 28 Oct 2009 at 00:22

It's still on XP. It used to boot fine until recently. Apar from updating a couple of drivers not much has changed. I was careful to install only Spamkiller as I know what resource hog Mcafee is. My AV is Avast which works fine.

Ratbag · 28 Oct 2009 at 06:41

How old is the installation? If its more than a few months deploy XP prefetch control. Flush the cache and switch it off or choose to monitor boot files only.

no_1_dave · 28 Oct 2009 at 08:11

Download TuneXP & enable the tweaks (apart from quick shutdown tweak cos it does the opposite)

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2009 at 08:46

If I were you I would get rid of Mcafee and avast and get NOD32 and just use windows firewall. Just run all the MS updates via the update button. Run CCleaner and Spybot search and destroy

Then run Diskeeper and set to automatic mode

_Jimlad_ · 28 Oct 2009 at 10:31

Guest2 said:
If I were you I would get rid of Mcafee and avast and get NOD32 and just use windows firewall. Just run all the MS updates via the update button. Run CCleaner and Spybot search and destroy

Then run Diskeeper and set to automatic mode

agree, its over kill.

can you take a screen shot of MSCONFIG start up? would like to see what you have loading, as its properly a combo of naff that is causing the issues

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2009 at 10:40

_Jimlad_ said:
agree, its over kill.

can you take a screen shot of MSCONFIG start up? would like to see what you have loading, as its properly a combo of naff that is causing the issues

U only really need to run something like diskeeper and nod32 and windows firewall all the time. This is after you have cleaned with something like hijackthis, ccleaner, spybot and lavasoft.

As long as you dont browse korean rape porn or cracks websites then you will be fine!

chameleon · 28 Oct 2009 at 14:13

Awww, there goes my Korean Rape porn habit!

RoEy · 28 Oct 2009 at 14:22

Guest2 said:
As long as you dont browse korean rape porn or cracks websites then you will be fine!

Speaking from experience are we?

Jesus, the stuff you can get hold of these days...LOL!

RoEy