Hang on welocme (loading your personal settings) screen

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Quandon

I am running windows XP on a standalone machine - no network other than the
internet.

Yesterday, windows suddenly started taking a minute to get past the "loading
your personal settings" screen (this is the "windows classic" logon equivelant
of the welcome screen).

I've spent hours searching withh google, but I can't find anything already
written about what might be causing this.

It happened suddenly, so it is not a disk fragmentation problem, or a buildup of
anything.

Strangely, no one admits to knowing what on earth windows is doing whilst it
loads these settings - looking at all the files in the various "documents and
settings", it seems unlikely that it's anything there causing it.

If anyone's got any ideas, I'd be very grateful to hear them.

Quandon
 
Go to run and type ; msconfig. Go to the startup tab and look at the
checked boxes which start at windows startup. Uncheck the non system
programs for faster startup. Jym
 
Go to run and type ; msconfig. Go to the startup tab and look at the
checked boxes which start at windows startup. Uncheck the non system
programs for faster startup. Jym
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Thanks, I had a look in there, but this is a case of something major having
changed, not just a requirement to tweak things around to get slightly faster
startup.

I should also have mentioned that starting in sage mode takes just as long.

Quandon
 
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