XP boot progress bar...

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pawhe

Every time when booting up XP, just before the graphical logo screen
appears, I'm now seeing a full-width white-blocks (e.g. DOS window type of
thing) progress bar.

The only time I *thought* I consistently saw this, was during the first
re-boot after the installation of software that demands a re-boot (e.g.
perhaps something that updates registry, etc.). I did not recall seeing it
for any other 'normal' boot's....

It this normal? Or is it indicative of something dodgy going on at every
re-boot now?

Thanks,
 
pawhe,

Are you perhaps using "hibernate". The grey blocks are always visible after a hibernate.

Pressing Shift and H tells windows XP to shutdown > hibernate

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Unfortunately not hibernating - it's always a proper "shutdown" selected
from "Start"->"Turn off computer".

Still a tad concerned..... thanks anyway.
 
pawhe scribbled:
Every time when booting up XP, just before the graphical logo screen
appears, I'm now seeing a full-width white-blocks (e.g. DOS window
type of thing) progress bar.
The only time I *thought* I consistently saw this, was during the
first re-boot after the installation of software that demands a
re-boot (e.g. perhaps something that updates registry, etc.). I did
not recall seeing it for any other 'normal' boot's....
It this normal? Or is it indicative of something dodgy going on at
every re-boot now?
Click to expand...

It's normal; It's been part of Windows NT, W2K, and XP for years. Prior to
an SP2 install it's 'progress' would have been too quick for it to display.
After installing SP2 it does show up on most/many systems because of the way
XP SP2 loads...
 
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