XP startup problem...

Barno · 1 Nov 2007 at 22:05

Hey guys, got a bit of a problem. When XP is starting up, after I've logged in, theres a bit of disk activity when the desktop appears and then a long pause of about a minute when nothing happens and I can't access anything. Finally the startup programs (antivirus etc) will load and I can get on with things. I've put up with it for a while becuase I have no idea whats causing it but its really starting to annoy me now. It went away for a while after I deleted my network bridge and switched off ICS but that could just be a coincidence. It also never happened before I fiddled around with services.msc and boot profiles.

If anyone can help me solve this I'd be very grateful.

Cheers.

Aero · 1 Nov 2007 at 22:11

You have tried start>run>msconfig>startup? and disabled unwanted programs in there right? If not all i've got is check your registry?

Brian Stuart · 1 Nov 2007 at 22:20

If running msconfig doesn't speed up boot times the download bootvis and run it to optimise your boot sequence.

modo77 · 1 Nov 2007 at 22:33

As Brian mention used bootvis http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

Barno · 1 Nov 2007 at 22:43

Thank you for the advice, unfortunately I already have my system configured to boot as fast as possible. Only NOD32 (antivirus) runs on startup. I think the problem could be to do with networking as the first things to show up in the taskbar after the pause are my LAN icons. I'll try bootvis anyway and see if it helps.

Barno · 1 Nov 2007 at 23:11

Just tried bootvis but unfortunately it didn't show me what is causing the pause.

JayMax · 2 Nov 2007 at 00:35

Could it be searching for a mapped network drive/UNC path that's no longer there?