Windows XP welcome screen showing longer & delays boot t

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tbu3 · #1 Post by **tbu3** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:06 am

My WinXP welcome screen is showing longer than normal and is delaying my boot time by a couple of seconds. Anyone care let me know whats wrong with it?

selvan777 · #2 Post by **selvan777** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:14 pm

I don't think anything is wrong with it. The more activity during boot the longer it takes, it's perfectly normal.

tbu3 · #3 Post by **tbu3** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:16 pm

Thanks for the info. But is it ok for my thinkpad to have a boot time of about 2 minutes? I have an R51 1.5Ghz, 512 MB RAM, WinXP Home, 14.1" TFT

ian · #4 Post by **ian** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:21 pm

You've probably got a few unnecessary services running at boot-up. Try running MSCONFIG and you can weed out a few of the useless things that start at boot. Also a spyware-scan in case some nasties have got in behind your firewall/anti-virus - they can slow things up too.

(To avoid polluting the forum with unnecessary details, try Googling for details about MSCONFIG)

Having said this, 2 minutes is not that long - but it could be better.

selvan777 · #5 Post by **selvan777** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:01 am

tbu3 wrote:... is it ok for my thinkpad to have a boot time of about 2 minutes? ...

I think it's ok, maybe not optimum but still ok. It could probably be improved with the suggestions mentioned on the page linked below, read the entire page. Note what he says about msconfig.

Windows XP Home and Professional Service Pack 2 Service Configurations by Black Viper
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Also, as mentioned by Ian, scanning for malware is a great idea. Do a Google for free malware utilities like Spybot S&D and Ad-aware.

tbu3 · #6 Post by **tbu3** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:59 am

Thanks ya all for sharing your thoughts on what mess I've done with my system. I guess I stuffed so much stuff in it that crapped my laptop's boot process. Long live thinpads............

johnson · #7 Post by **johnson** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:46 am

My boot time is about 35 seconds without the wireless cardbus card plugged in and 50 seconds to a minute when its plugged in. Cait wait to see if 1GB RAM will make a difference.

Elhabash · #8 Post by **Elhabash** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:44 am

It won't, I think, since at startup it's more the HDD that is important...

tbu3 · #9 Post by **tbu3** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:32 pm

I finally figured out that removing Windows XP Plus' theme files was causing the slowdown in my boot time. I just got rid of it and my boot time went back to about half a minute.

Windows XP welcome screen showing longer & delays boot t

Windows XP welcome screen showing longer & delays boot t

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