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XP Pro SP2 slow to boot up

can same one please explain why Windows XP takes about 5 minutes to load up, what happens is that after the screen goes blank for a while then a black and white bar come on the botom of the screen (what does this black and white bar mean and whats it for?) then you get the "welcome to windows" screen after that the pc runs fine.

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Another way to do this is to type "msconfig" in the run box, then click on the "services" tab. Tick the box that says "Hide All Microsoft Services" and see what's left. If anything is left running which you do not recognise, (ie. not anti-virus or anti-spyware) remove the tick from the box and reboot. If your pc boots significantly quicker, you may have found the cause of your problem.

Let us know how you get on.

Mohammed Hamada

Remove also all the Items " Applications " on startup tab on Msconfig...

Start --> Run -> msconfig --> Startup tab --> disable All - > restart...

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Merete

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moh10ly: if you check my original post, you'll see that msconfig "disable all" was the first suggestion.

Merete: I don't know Startup Inspector. Does it do anything more than you could acheive via "msconfig" and a datbase of startups? If it does I'd be very interested.

Andrewunk: My original suggestion was to disable all startups and then see if the pc would boot normally. Did it?
If you want to check out which programs in your startup list do what, have a look here:

www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

or here:

castlecops.com/StartupList.html

or here:

www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

Let us know what happens. Good luck!

Merete

@phototropic yes it shows everything also explains what they are.
There is small picture demo on that link.
Please try it only way to know :)

LeeTutor

andrewdunk, any feedback?

andrewdunk

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sorry has been away for a couple of weeks working, i'll give this ago and see what happens

Merete

cool thank you all.