Very Slow Boot Times

**Smurfette** · 11-09-2003, 01:23 PM

Originally posted by muchspl2@9 November 2003 - 13:16
^^ yes
but his question was very basic, so I tried to keep the answers basic

S'cool

**globalterminator** · 11-09-2003, 02:05 PM

maybe try defragmenting your harddisk?

**3223** · 11-09-2003, 06:39 PM

Originally posted by Smurfette+9 November 2003 - 13:06--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Smurfette @ 9 November 2003 - 13:06)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Originally posted by 3223@9 November 2003 - 06:10

Originally posted by 3223@8 November 2003 - 16:32

Originally posted by 3223@4 November 2003 - 23:31
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@4 November 2003 - 20:23
@muchspl2. I agree with 3223 on this one; you could do with chilling out a bit. I've read a few posts of yours, and you often exhibit an attitude problem. If you don't have the patience to help newbies, it's probably wise that you stay out of this sort of thread - although that won't help you with your spam co..., i mean post count.

Also, there's no reason why other posters should pm you to voice any grievances, i think you're confusing yourself with a mod.

@3223. Somebody gave you a link to a site where you can get bootvis; download it. It's a great little tool for analyzing your system boot and finding what is causing any delay.

Extract the file to your temp folder (key %temp% into your browser to find the extracted file) then click on the Bootvis icon. Click on Trace > Next Boot and Driver delays, then reboot. Once your system reboots you'll need to allow bootvis to finish, then it will present you with all processes that occur during boot up, in a clear and easy to understand graph. Let us know the results.

Which of the results would you need??

well which results do you need?!?

im getting mad no1 is helping me!!

There's no reason to get mad. Have you downloaded bootvis?

First question anyone should've asked you (shame on you lot of useless looooooooooooooooooosers

) is:
Does it take a long time to get to the welcome screen, spending a lot of time on the black 'loading' screen, or is it after the welcome screen with the longest wait getting to the desktop from there?
If it's taking a long time on the black screen then a defrag and bootvis will help pin down the problem but if the problem is getting from the welcome screen to the desktop, going straight to msconfig's startup options will afford an immediate improvement. With 256MB RAM, I would say that getting more of that would help the whole process a lot.

Sometimes external peripherals can slow down boot times by either not neing turned on or taking time to reply to XP as it detects what's connected.

Regarding the bootvis results, just run the program and follow instructions, then when it's finished you can look at the results and anything taking a long time to complete will be pretty obvious - just come back here and tell us what that is. [/b][/quote]
yes i got bootvis. it takes the longest on the black screen.

**LTJBukem** · 11-09-2003, 07:15 PM

Tell you what i'll do. After my dinner, i'll come over and use some of my investigative skills on your box.

Seriously though, use a little initiative man.

Run bootvis > Select Trace > Next boot and driver delays > Reboot and don't touch your computer again (apart from logging in) until you get the results.

Ok, here are some pics of results of bootvis results on a healthy system (see, i even rebooted my computer to help you&#33

Now when you look at your results, do you see anything different? There is your problem. Describe to us what you find.

Good luck mate.