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Windows startup taking ages

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  • #32
    woolymammoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭woolymammoth


    well bootvis captures a lot of info, you should be able to zoom in and double-click on the graphs doe more detailed info at a particular time in the boot process.

    Reasons for asking about the PC, i've see before where bundled applications cause more or a hindrance than a help!

    I'd say do a Windows repair just to see what happens, then do a reinstall!


  • #33
    luckylucky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭luckylucky


    woolymammoth wrote: »
    well bootvis captures a lot of info, you should be able to zoom in and double-click on the graphs doe more detailed info at a particular time in the boot process.

    Reasons for asking about the PC, i've see before where bundled applications cause more or a hindrance than a help!

    I'd say do a Windows repair just to see what happens, then do a reinstall!

    I'm back in Ireland until Tuesday so I can't upload another picture until I get back to Portugal.
    My Pc isn't a particular brand. It has basically been chopped and changed over the years by myself to the point where there is nothing left from the original pc I bought which even then was a pc built by parts by another individual.


  • #34
    luckylucky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭luckylucky


    I thought I was finished with this so soz but something just occured to me that might have a bearing. This morning I've been working out what components to buy to upgrade my PC. While thinking about what power supply I should get, it dawned on me that perhaps my power supply might perhaps be an issue here. It's just 450 watts I think. Could it be a possible cause?


  • #35
    Plan_D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭Plan_D


    luckylucky wrote: »
    I thought I was finished with this so soz but something just occured to me that might have a bearing. This morning I've been working out what components to buy to upgrade my PC. While thinking about what power supply I should get, it dawned on me that perhaps my power supply might perhaps be an issue here. It's just 450 watts I think. Could it be a possible cause?

    Do you have a decent GFX card and if so do you know the name/spec? That does seem to a fairly low power unit. There was one chap on the poker board a while ago whose PC kept crashing after awhile and that was due to the PSU.


  • #36
    luckylucky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭luckylucky


    Plan_D wrote: »
    Do you have a decent GFX card and if so do you know the name/spec?

    yeah I have one of the latest AGP graphics cards. It's an AH2600PRO. Basically an ATI 2600Pro Agp version. It supports 2560x1600 resolution, that's why I bought it.
    Plan_D wrote: »
    There was one chap on the poker board a while ago whose PC kept crashing after awhile and that was due to the PSU

    I believe that was me ;) My current PSU was a spare one I had with more watts that solved that problem. But perhaps it didn't have enough.

    At the same time I think I have had slow boot up times even before that graphics card was ever installed, though it does seem worse than ever these days.


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  • #37
    ozmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭ozmo


    luckylucky wrote: »
    ... Could it be a possible cause?
    No not psu problem - pc would random turn off if psu.

    I had a problem like this and I used FileMon from www.sysinternals.com to see what files were being accessed.
    Turns out I had too many things in the start menu and explorer.exe was rebuilding the icons for the start menu each time - I cleared out the startmenu Readme and uninstall icons and its now much faster to boot.

    “Roll it back”



  • #38
    ozmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭ozmo


    ozmo wrote: »
    No not psu problem - pc would random turn off if psu.

    I had a problem like this and I used FileMon from www.sysinternals.com to see what files were being accessed.
    Turns out I had too many things in the start menu and explorer.exe was rebuilding the icons for the start menu each time - I cleared out the startmenu Readme and uninstall icons and its now much faster to boot.

    Just to add... I had same problem again on another pc - using bootvis i could see it was a svhost - ie. a service that was pausing the booting for 2minutes just before explorer started. I could read the PID from bootvis and using processexplorer(sysinternals.com) could identify the process with that PID. Turned out to be a scanner that I seldom had attached. Set Service Microsoft "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)" to Manual start and pc now boots xp in 40 seconds. sorted :cool:. Just thought Id log it here in case anyone else has similar problem.

    “Roll it back”



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