WINLOGON process eats 42 seconds at system boot
Hi Experts,
I have P-III/128Mb RAM Win2000 professional machine. After power-on, and login, I see a lot of disk activity, and in Task Manager I can see WINLOGON process eating 99% CPU. What can be a reason of this? It takes 42 seconds of CPU time on every boot!
Thanks,
Dmitry.
I have P-III/128Mb RAM Win2000 professional machine. After power-on, and login, I see a lot of disk activity, and in Task Manager I can see WINLOGON process eating 99% CPU. What can be a reason of this? It takes 42 seconds of CPU time on every boot!
Thanks,
Dmitry.
1) Is this networked ??
Do you have a NIC installed ?
Is it DHCP ?
Are there any login scripts ?
I hope this helps !
Do you have a NIC installed ?
Is it DHCP ?
Are there any login scripts ?
I hope this helps !
ASKER
Hi guys,
dredge: yes I defragmented my HDD with w2k built-in defrag, and there are no extra files in startup folder, moreover, it is WINLOGON.EXE who works 42 seconds.
SysExpert: yes it is networked, static IP, no login scripts. Moreover, when booted without network cable -- the same problem.
dredge: yes I defragmented my HDD with w2k built-in defrag, and there are no extra files in startup folder, moreover, it is WINLOGON.EXE who works 42 seconds.
SysExpert: yes it is networked, static IP, no login scripts. Moreover, when booted without network cable -- the same problem.
Winlogin may be running some other startup stuff, not in the startup folder.
Download the Startup COP a free pcmag utility from
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,77594,.html
Run it and it will show you everything that is listed in all the possible startup
places, and allow you to disable things one at a time until the problem is eliminated.
A lot of probelms are caused by excess old baggage - programs that have not been properly un-installed. Startup Cop will eliminate leftovers and un-wanted programs that you no longer want.
Older Antivirus programs and Norton Utilities have been known to cause problems
I hope this helps !
Download the Startup COP a free pcmag utility from
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,77594,.html
Run it and it will show you everything that is listed in all the possible startup
places, and allow you to disable things one at a time until the problem is eliminated.
A lot of probelms are caused by excess old baggage - programs that have not been properly un-installed. Startup Cop will eliminate leftovers and un-wanted programs that you no longer want.
Older Antivirus programs and Norton Utilities have been known to cause problems
I hope this helps !
ASKER
Thank you SysExpert, I'll try your suggestion tomorrow and will let you know about results.
Dmitry.
Dmitry.
the built in Win2K defragger is pathetic and slow. it has about one quarter the capabilities of Diskeeper 6
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/optimize/w2kexec.asp
also, what speed processor do you have, how much ram do you have, what size & speed is your hard drive, when did this problem start occuring?
one thing you can do: DELETE winlogin.exe (yes, i said delete it). WIndows file Protection should kick in and replace it with a good copy.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/optimize/w2kexec.asp
also, what speed processor do you have, how much ram do you have, what size & speed is your hard drive, when did this problem start occuring?
one thing you can do: DELETE winlogin.exe (yes, i said delete it). WIndows file Protection should kick in and replace it with a good copy.
ASKER
Well, I'll try Diskeeper6 also. PC is PIII-533, 128Mb RAM, 15Gb HDD. I did not notice the time when the system become slow at boot. And I'm sure that winlogon.exe is healthy.
Also do a Start - run - SFC to check the system files, and make sure sp2 is installed !
ASKER
Interesting... I will. And SP2 is installed already.
Thanks, Dmitry.
Thanks, Dmitry.
ASKER
Hi All,
Nothing helped, unfortunately. I installed Startup COP, and it showed mobsync.exe and MSN messengers. I removed them all, as well as MS Office quick start from startup. I also downloaded Diskeeper 6, defragmented my HDD -- no luck: 42, and sometimes 44 seconds of WINLOGON.EXE still here. SFC requested my CDROM. and I do not have one nearby, moreover, WINLOGON.EXE file was changed during SP2 installation. Here are file parameters:
WINLOGON.EXE 177936 04.05.01 12:05
There are some other files with the same date/time, so I assume it is from SP2.
What do you think? I'm going to buy additional 128 megs of memory.
Nothing helped, unfortunately. I installed Startup COP, and it showed mobsync.exe and MSN messengers. I removed them all, as well as MS Office quick start from startup. I also downloaded Diskeeper 6, defragmented my HDD -- no luck: 42, and sometimes 44 seconds of WINLOGON.EXE still here. SFC requested my CDROM. and I do not have one nearby, moreover, WINLOGON.EXE file was changed during SP2 installation. Here are file parameters:
WINLOGON.EXE 177936 04.05.01 12:05
There are some other files with the same date/time, so I assume it is from SP2.
What do you think? I'm going to buy additional 128 megs of memory.
It can't hurt, bit it is still strange that it takes this long.
What services are running on this machine ( IIS, ISA, RRAS ?? ).
What services are running on this machine ( IIS, ISA, RRAS ?? ).
ASKER
http://x6.ic.ru/~dda/taskman.jpg
This is my task manager right after boot. WINLOGON activity lasts two minutes approximately, with 20-99% CPU time. And after this, winlogon 'goes to sleep'.
This is my task manager right after boot. WINLOGON activity lasts two minutes approximately, with 20-99% CPU time. And after this, winlogon 'goes to sleep'.
My only comments is that the UPS task could be taking time, or internat task. Those are the only 2 I do not have on my machine.
I hope this helps !
I hope this helps !
ASKER
internat is international keyboard indicator, and I disabled UPS. Still no luck -- WINLOGON takes 45 seconds.
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Uhh. Sorry guys. I've found it. It WAS antivirus :( AVP from www.avp.ru site. But I can't imagine how it was integrated into WINLOGON.EXE! I saw many other machines with AVP running, and i was separate avpm.exe and avpcc.exe services. Moreover, I did not selected 'install as service' option during installation. Anyway, it is my duty to investigate where it is started (I did not find it during all this days). I renamed directory with antivirus, and WINLOGON finished within 1 second, as it should be.
I want to share points between three of you. 100 points for shekerra, and two additional questions for SysExpert and dredge.
Thank you guys.
I want to share points between three of you. 100 points for shekerra, and two additional questions for SysExpert and dredge.
Thank you guys.
also, check to see how many file are run at startup from your program menu/Startup folder, as well as in the registry under [HKEY_Current_User\Softwar