XP Slow Start up solution?

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I may have found (after trying dozens of suggestions from this and other newsgroups) what is causing my PC to take several minutes longer to start up than it used to. I had found that if I un-install all of the XP updates and service packs, my PC would boot without the 2-3 minute delay. However this was not an acceptable solution and I could not pin down which specific update was the culprit

However I also discovered that if I disable the Remote Access Connection Manager (through msconfig, services) my PC boots up as fast as when I first got it. The down side is that XP's Firewall is no longer functioning since it needs this service. So it appears to me that the problem lies with this service and is linked to one of the security patches

Anybody (MS MVP) have any answers as to why? Is the solution to disable this service and XP's firewall and go with a third party firewall?
 
Neither the critical updates nor XP's own services will cause a boot time of
2 to 3 minutes. The operating system can be adversely affected when it has
been changed in unsupported ways. This can happen as a result of a virus or
adware or sometimes just inexperience on the part of the user. Similarly,
the critical updates do not anticipate encountering an operating system that
has been changed in unsupported ways. Therefore, more than likely your
problem is not directly caused by XP's own services or the updates. You're
going to have to look elsewhere, at hardware or software changes that you
have made to your system (or that have been made for you!)

Rocky

CT said:
I may have found (after trying dozens of suggestions from this and other
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newsgroups) what is causing my PC to take several minutes longer to start up
than it used to. I had found that if I un-install all of the XP updates and
service packs, my PC would boot without the 2-3 minute delay. However this
was not an acceptable solution and I could not pin down which specific
update was the culprit.
However I also discovered that if I disable the Remote Access Connection
Click to expand...
Manager (through msconfig, services) my PC boots up as fast as when I first
got it. The down side is that XP's Firewall is no longer functioning since
it needs this service. So it appears to me that the problem lies with this
service and is linked to one of the security patches.
Anybody (MS MVP) have any answers as to why? Is the solution to disable
Click to expand...
this service and XP's firewall and go with a third party firewall?
 
CT

What error messages are showing Event Viewer before and after? Event ID No:, Source and brief description?


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Sometimes the Event Viewer will show an error at the DHCP event (#1002). The message referrs to an IP address lease being denied. However when I go to the Microsoft site mentioned it says that no user action is required and that the DHCP Client will obtain a working address. There is only a second between this even and the next event, Service Control Manager (#7036). As I mentioned, I don't always get this error

The Event Viewer does show (consistantly) over 2 minutes elapsing between the TCPIP event (#4201) and the next event, Service Control Manager (#7036). I have not been able to tell what is going on during this interval.
 
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