XP holds up at the blue 'Welcome' screen - Why?

Seanie M · 15-08-2006 4:43pm #1

XP Pro (SP2 etc)... upon booting up or restarting, it always likes to hang for a minute on the blue Welcome page. Then the Desktop appears fine. It has always baffled me...

Seanie.

aidan_walsh · 15-08-2006 4:46pm

Deleting your mp3 files, clearing your porn cache and giving your iPod to charity will solve it. Its a well known issue.

There is a program or service causing a small delay when its starting up. Without knowing anything, its impossible to say what.

O_o wtf?

Seanie M · 15-08-2006 5:24pm

I figured that's what it could be. I've changed so many start-up registry keys in Spybot none of them had any effect! I thought perhaps some one might know something most of us don't!

Capt'n Midnight · 15-08-2006 6:38pm

safe mode ?

there is a reg setting that shows what processes are running in the background on startup and shutdown while on the blue screen but I can't find it again

edit Found it

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325376
How to enable verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status messages

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"VerboseStatus"=dword:00000001

Karoma · 15-08-2006 6:42pm

Try bootvis?
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/2/b/32b18416-c3b0-4e46-a99d-15b7707e3dba/bootvis.msi

Otherwise, old-fashioned trial and error using msconfig.

XP holds up at the blue 'Welcome' screen - Why?

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