Boot-up setup not consistent?

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William B. Lurie

Sometimes when booting up, all the tiny icons show up in the toolbar,
sometimes they don't. Specifically, I wait until the Norton Anti-Virus
Auto-Protect Enabled icon appears before I proceed. Sometimes I can wait
forever and it doesn't appear, and I know that boot-up was finished long
ago. And the recent flap about Swiss Music website being reached, which
I put in the Start-Up menu, sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.
Am I alone in this, or would some of the silent majority or minority
like to speak up?

William B. Lurie
 
Sometimes when booting up, all the tiny icons show up in the toolbar,
sometimes they don't. Specifically, I wait until the Norton Anti-Virus
Auto-Protect Enabled icon appears before I proceed. Sometimes I can wait
forever and it doesn't appear, and I know that boot-up was finished long
ago. And the recent flap about Swiss Music website being reached, which
I put in the Start-Up menu, sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.
Am I alone in this, or would some of the silent majority or minority
like to speak up?

William B. Lurie
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Bill, I think it's just a timing issue. Some of these tray things will try
one or two times to load and then give up. Others try once or will keep
trying until loaded.

I don't know why one boot is different from the next but if I fool around
with it, I usually find that if "a" is allowed in the tray - there's
problems with b,c,d and e. But if I disable the tray icon for "a,"
everything loads fine every time. What "a" is varies from one startup mix
to another.

The most reliable fix I've found is to simply log off and log back on. With
this "soft" restart, the bulk of the system is already loaded. Logging back
on simply gives the user preferences a second go around to load properly.

Kelly Theriot has compiled other suggestions at her site that she and other
users have found useful. You may want to check those out as well. They are
listed under the "Notification Area" topics on the N page of her A-Z pages:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm
 
Sharon said:
Bill, I think it's just a timing issue. Some of these tray things will try
one or two times to load and then give up. Others try once or will keep
trying until loaded.

I don't know why one boot is different from the next but if I fool around
with it, I usually find that if "a" is allowed in the tray - there's
problems with b,c,d and e. But if I disable the tray icon for "a,"
everything loads fine every time. What "a" is varies from one startup mix
to another.

The most reliable fix I've found is to simply log off and log back on. With
this "soft" restart, the bulk of the system is already loaded. Logging back
on simply gives the user preferences a second go around to load properly.

Kelly Theriot has compiled other suggestions at her site that she and other
users have found useful. You may want to check those out as well. They are
listed under the "Notification Area" topics on the N page of her A-Z pages:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm
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Thanks, Sharon, I needed that. I'm glad you verified that it's
not just me. With such a monstrous, horribly complex, impossible-
for-simple-humans-to grasp-all-of, system like XP, you could never
expect it to be made absolutely foolproof. It's really a miracle
it works as well as it does. But I see these little foibles and
I ask, and almost always there's somebody like you who 'splains it.
Or, as in this case, conveinces me that it ain'y broke, and I don't
need to fix it.
Bill
 
Thanks, Sharon, I needed that. I'm glad you verified that it's
not just me. With such a monstrous, horribly complex, impossible-
for-simple-humans-to grasp-all-of, system like XP, you could never
expect it to be made absolutely foolproof. It's really a miracle
it works as well as it does. But I see these little foibles and
I ask, and almost always there's somebody like you who 'splains it.
Or, as in this case, conveinces me that it ain'y broke, and I don't
need to fix it.
Bill
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You're most welcome, Bill. And yes, this is definitely a part of XP that
has "foibles." ;^)
 
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