Two Minutes to Boot

[illy]

I've recently come across a problem (yesterday), whereby it takes my computer around 2 minutes to boot after it displays the Windows XP loading screen. Usually it took 20 second. This developed yesterday evening when I changed my MTU settings and installed a new router after a restart - I have now changed back the MTU settings (which I don't think should affect it anyway) and replaced the new router with my old one.

I've encoutered this fault last month and I fixed it by formatting and reinstalling windows, however I am not to keen to do that again.

Something that I've noticed after this fault is that system restore ceased to work, also last time I tried 'fixing' my old windows installation however setup froze at 34% I think and hence why I did a full format.

Can anyone offer any advice as to how I may fix this?

Thanks

 

[modo77]

It sounds like its waiting for something to start in the background. Does it do the same on the admin account? Or try creating a new user and login with that.

 

[bledd]

just boot off your windows disc and remove the partitions on the drive and format again as ntfs quick

-this will remove ALL information from the drive, but will be a fresh working install

 

[illy]

Modo I will give that a go but I have made no change to the user accounts and it stopped working after a restart.

Bledd - that was what I did last time but I see that if nothing else works it may be my only option.