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Slow startup
Name: jedarlington Date: September 22, 2008 at 04:11:20 Pacific OS: Server 2003 Small Bu CPU/Ram: Intel Pentium 4, 2GB Product: Dell Poweredge
Comment:
One of my XP Pro machines which was setup by an IT Technician and not myself takes an extremely long time to startup when turned on.
It goes through a whole rigmarole of 'Starting up', Preparing Network Connections' and 'Applying Computer Settings' before logon screen is reached.
All other XP machines I have setup hit the logon screen immediately.
What can I do to stop this rigmarole at startup and login straight away?
Name: Jestible Date: September 22, 2008 at 08:37:17 Pacific
Reply:
Is the machine/user setup to have a roaming profile? Have you checked the event log?
Holy Wow.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: September 22, 2008 at 08:39:29 Pacific
Reply:
Talk to your IT people. It's their responsibility. If you've setup machines, do you have them on a Domain?
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 3
Name: jedarlington Date: September 22, 2008 at 09:00:54 Pacific
Reply:
The machines are on a domain and have roaming profiles.
Its before they logon that they go slowly. When it comes up saying windows is starting up.
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Response Number 4
Name: Jestible Date: September 22, 2008 at 09:24:18 Pacific
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My apologizes, I misread the information. Have you done a quick repair install of windows? I see no harm in attempting to do this.
Holy Wow.
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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: September 22, 2008 at 10:52:22 Pacific
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My guess is the machine that was setup by the IT person is actually applying GPOs.
Have you checked to see what all Services are started? Did you contact your IT people again?
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 6
Name: DennisChan Date: October 7, 2008 at 01:58:13 Pacific
Reply:
Is it the Server Holding DNS & DHCP Server as well? they may not putting DNS Server IP Address into the DHCP Scope, this happened to my company before.
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