To see what programs are coming in on boot-up: Left Click On These: Start>Run>TypeIn;"regedit">Plus-Sign besides; "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE">Plus Sign besides; "Software">Plus Sign besides; "Microsoft">Plus Sign besides "Windows">Plus Sign besides; "Current Version">Click on the yellow "Run" folder and voila the Name,Type and Data should be listed on the right.

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Thank you very much.... Have you ever heard of a 3hour bootup?

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I think they are a band out of Dallas right? J/K No, But I have seen stranger. try booting without it plugged into the network. Or also revert back to any older drivers that you might have recently upgraded.

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Re: "3HourBootUp" band from Dallas, we have a band here that should be called "3HourBootOut" ;) Never heard of a system taking 3 hours to boot-up, you must have a lot of patience. Some application or software/program(s) that you have installed must be running in the background holding back windows from completing the boot-up process.. Try disabling them one by one and/or booting up in Safe Mode to see if there's still getting that long delay.

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Here is a link to the MSConfig.Zip. Download the file and place it into the Winnt\system32 directory and then click Start, then run. Into the run field type msconfig and click Ok.

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For now your best bet is to download and unzip the msconfig file that gregoryglen has been so kind to provide above and follow-up on that advice, once the Msconfig screen opens, click on the "Start-Up" Tab and then try checking-off/disabling a program or two listed there that may be causing the long start-up delay. One question, is the bulk of the long delay encountered before you are able to get to your desktop or after?

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having the wrong DNS info would cause that.

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A 3 hour bootup??? First off, you never mentioned whether or not you were running Pro or Server. If you're running Pro, the problems may be this simple: you have too many apps loading at Startup, you may have a replicating virus, you may have insufficient resources for your PC (ie. not enough RAM, slow processor, etc) -- if it's Server that you're running, your problems may be this simple: you have a Security Policy that's loading, you have too many apps at Startup, you may have a replicating virus, you may have insufficent resources. We run Server here with Group Policies, using a 400mhz processor, and 128MB RAM and it takes 10 minutes to load on a good day. Hope this helps you out.

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