From: sylvestre meininger (sylme_at_free.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 03:58:28 EDT
Matt Winston wrote :
> Are you booting up connected to a network, or have a lan card inserted?
No, I have even removed the PCI Ethernet card.
> Seems like my 600 take a while to complete start-up when the pc lan card
is
> inserted, as it's looking for connections.
See below.
> Also, if you have multiple uses specified, it takes a bit to load the
selected profile.
I don't.
Rob Bell wrote :
> What part of the boot process is slow?
Well, it gets past the IBM logo and the 1st DOS-like window (the one with a
progress bar telling you Windows is starting up) rather quickly.
Then it takes quite a while to get past the Windows 2000 Professionnal
window (the progress bar stops a few times for 10 sec) (~40s)
Then it instantly skips the password window (I didn't set any) and the
screen goes light blue and a small window appears, saying :
- Windows is starting up (10s)
- Preparing your network connections (I don't need that) (20s)
- Applying security strategy (I don't recall defining one and I certainly
don't need one) (30s)
- Loading up personnal preferences (15s)
Then, once I actually get to the desktop, it still takes a good 30s before
the HD stops buzzing like crazy and things stop happening in slow motion.
The Startup folder is empty (or so tells me Runservice, a small freeware
utility that looks into Win.ini, the Registry and the Startup folder) and 9
programs are loaded through the Registry :
- AtiPTA
- IBMPMSVC
- LTWinModem1
- PRPCMonitor
- SoundFusion
- Synchronization Manager
- tourpath
- TpHotkey
- TrackPointSrv
All of them are located in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Maybe I don't need some of this stuff. But I have a hunch that part of the
problem may be with these "network connections" and "security strategies"
that take so long to load. The trouble is I have no clue as to what some of
these Registry programs do and even less as to how I could get rid of these
"Network" and "Security" things.
Thanks again for your time. Any help appreciated.
sylvestre
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