Windows XP takes 10 mins to respond after boot

Hen_Dawg

Hen_Dawg

Hen_Dawg

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Hi
A girl at work says she has this problem with her PC. Windows XP boots up and takes 10 mins or more to be responsive, if you try and do/load anything before this it can sometines crash. She gave me a printout of task mgr and there are only the basic processes running.

I haven't seen the PC myself and haven't got a lot more info from her yet but just looking for ideas as to what may cause this and what to ask/check next? AVG is on there but perhaps a online virus scan would be a start.
Thanks
 
Aside from the malware route, try unplugging all non-essential devices such as printers, cameras etc. You might want to run Autoruns too to see what process are being started on booting.
 
you might want to give her startup control panel, ask her to disable pretty much everything, reboot and see if it helps, if it does, start enabling them and rebooting until you find the culprit.

Worked a few times for folks at work, it's generally some daft digital camera driver that's trying to auto update any failing as it's running before the NIC initialises :)

If you give her the stand alone exe for startup CPL, she can just run it - it doesn't remove anything, just untick the boxes.

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
 
Thanks gents, I'll have a look at this.
Would it be fairly safe to assume there is something 3rd party loading with windows that would cause this?
 
If its a work PC , ask her if she has to login to a domain
Might not even be the PC could be a domain login problem ( logon scripts / sync documents etc type problem )
 
If it's a standalone PC, then it's quite possible that it's just software loading on startup, either that, or its possibly something like AV software running an initial scan (i've noticed NOD has started to do that in the new version - and it's pretty annoying!)
 
Thank you all. I've sent her home with instructions to disable her AV on bootup to see if that changes anything. I also asked her to see if if still happens in safe mode (with and without networking).
It's a standard home PC, 5 yrs old I'm told so if it comes to it I can just re-install windows for her, for a price...
 
Sometimes if you have a CD in the cd drive it will take longer to boot but not 10 minutes i wouldnt have thought, Check it out anyway.
 
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