Log on delay

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I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top. I use NAV 2003 updated and ADaware registry
mechanic and spybot serach and destroy i also run diskeeper 8.0

My specs are as Follows
Mach Speed pt800dp mb
266mhz 256 memory
P4 3.0 w/ht 800fsb
30gb hd w/ 5gb system and 25 gb programs partitions

No errors in Evet viewer and no hardware conflicts
It access the hd for teh first 20 seconds thej stops until a minute
later the desktop shows up
Any programs that would make thiss happen?
Any ideas what may be causing this slow down?
Help is much appreciated
 
Ken Gast said:
I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top. I use NAV 2003 updated and ADaware registry
mechanic and spybot serach and destroy i also run diskeeper 8.0

My specs are as Follows
Mach Speed pt800dp mb
266mhz 256 memory
P4 3.0 w/ht 800fsb
30gb hd w/ 5gb system and 25 gb programs partitions

No errors in Evet viewer and no hardware conflicts
It access the hd for teh first 20 seconds thej stops until a minute
later the desktop shows up
Any programs that would make thiss happen?
Any ideas what may be causing this slow down?
Help is much appreciated
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Try defragmenting your hard drive. Also, if you upgrade to 512MB
of RAM, more common code (i.e. dll's) can be kept in memory,
and less swapping in from disk will be required.

-- Bob Day
 
Ken Gast said:
I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top. I use NAV 2003 updated and ADaware registry
mechanic and spybot serach and destroy i also run diskeeper 8.0

My specs are as Follows
Mach Speed pt800dp mb
266mhz 256 memory
P4 3.0 w/ht 800fsb
30gb hd w/ 5gb system and 25 gb programs partitions

No errors in Evet viewer and no hardware conflicts
It access the hd for teh first 20 seconds thej stops until a minute
later the desktop shows up
Any programs that would make thiss happen?
Any ideas what may be causing this slow down?
Help is much appreciated
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Next time you manage to get to the desktop, go from Start to Run and type in
Services.msc. Then left double click the "applications" , right click those
that you don't think are so necessary(or that you don't normally use),
select Properties and either disable or change to a manual setting. Also
check your msconfig startup list and uncheck other programs that aren't
necessary.

Mark Mandell
 
I have been defragmenting using diskeeper i don't have a big background but
that should hard;y be a problem for a p4 3.0 with HT disabled all startup
programs and services that aren't necessary
 
Ken said:
I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top. I use NAV 2003 updated and ADaware registry
mechanic and spybot serach and destroy i also run diskeeper 8.0

My specs are as Follows
Mach Speed pt800dp mb
266mhz 256 memory
P4 3.0 w/ht 800fsb
30gb hd w/ 5gb system and 25 gb programs partitions

No errors in Evet viewer and no hardware conflicts
It access the hd for teh first 20 seconds thej stops until a minute
later the desktop shows up
Any programs that would make thiss happen?
Any ideas what may be causing this slow down?
Help is much appreciated
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I would think it is your machine looking for a network. I take it you have a
network card (or port on your mobo) and aren't connected to a network? (Or
are connected to a network that doesn't have a DHCP server assigned).

If this is the case there are two easy ways to fix it. One, quick and dirty,
is to disable the device in Device manager (or, even better, the BIOS), the
other, more elegant, especially if you *may* network it at some satge, is to
assign your PC a static IP. (Try 192.168.0.100 with subnet mask
255.255.255.0) The delay is caused by the PC being set to obtain an IP
address automatically (from a DHCP server, the default indows setting) and
your computer is waiting a pre-set time for a DHCP server to respond. When
it gets no response, usually after between 30 secs and a minute, it
continues to boot into the desktop.

This is becoming more of a problem for home users who don't have a network
but get a mobo with a built-in NIC. The OS installs the networking
components as it finds the hardware, then spends time looking for the
network when it's booting. After all, you wouldn't have a network card
installed if you weren't on a network would you? The last statement doesn't
hold true anymore with a whole lot of mobos having built-in network
interfaces, a fairly recent phenomena for home PCs.

The other thing is, if it isn't network problems, that board of yours, you
got it from Tiger Direct right? A package with the CPU included? I'd never
heard of it before so just did a Google search for it and came up with
exactly *one* hit for it from..... Tiger Direct, a current offer for a
package deal with a P4 3.0Ghz. With built-in 10/100 NIC.

It seems exceedingly strange to me to only get one hit on a recent mobo,
raises flags. <shrug> It could be fine, maybe Tiger is just buying budget
boards and re-badging them, starting their own brand. Still, to be honest
with you, I wouldn't have bought it without knowing why it's a previously
unheard-of brand name.

Do me a favour, download and run Aida32 Enterprise Edition and tell me what
it IDs the board as. It can be downloaded from many places, MajorGeeks being
the one I used:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download183.html

It is a very handy diagnostic tool and is very handy to have on your system
anyway.

Good luck.
 
I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top.
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Do you have a network card installed? If so, are the TCP/IP settings set to
dynamic ip addressing? If so, it might be waiting for a response from a DHCP
server before starting up. I had this problem witn Win98, not XP, but you never
know, it might be the same.


Chris Pollard
 
I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top. I use NAV 2003 updated and ADaware registry
mechanic and spybot serach and destroy i also run diskeeper 8.0

My specs are as Follows
Mach Speed pt800dp mb
266mhz 256 memory
P4 3.0 w/ht 800fsb
30gb hd w/ 5gb system and 25 gb programs partitions

No errors in Evet viewer and no hardware conflicts
It access the hd for teh first 20 seconds thej stops until a minute
later the desktop shows up
Any programs that would make thiss happen?
Any ideas what may be causing this slow down?
Help is much appreciated
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Others have mentioned the issue of dynamic vs static IP address
assignment, that hesitation that can occur if a system is waiting for an
IP assignment from a DHCP server. However, that occurs before this point
in the boot, if I understand correctly the situation.

Other potential problem might be a mapped network drive that's currently
offline, that the system is waiting trying to reconnect to it. If that's
the case there should be a setting in the network configuration menus to
logon without reconnecting until access is attempted (I forget the exact
wording of the setting but it should be obvious enough when you see it).
 
I am running Windows Xp HE when i log on it takes at least a minute to
get to my desk top. I use NAV 2003 updated and ADaware registry
mechanic and spybot serach and destroy i also run diskeeper 8.0
Click to expand...

Diskeeper is more than likely yer problem.

But it might also be synchronization in IE. Turn it off.

And it might be Norton.

Probably one of those 3.

Uninstall them...one at a time. See what happens.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!
 
Hey thanx for your posts but problem was something wrong with the startup
items group i disabled loading startup items and its down to 10 seconds
 
Hi there, Also have this proble,. Can you tell me where you disable the
startup groupe?
Thanks
 
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