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Win Xp Prof start-up Delay after boot-up
Name: Irwin Date: October 9, 2001 at 15:34:55 Pacific
Comment:
After booting up real fast, I find a delay of about one to 1-1/2 min during which nothing will execute and some icons in the right bottom corner system tray have an "X"..then there's some intense HD activity after which the "X" disappears & the icon/s are idnicating ok, and all works just fine. What's happening here?
Name: fred Date: October 9, 2001 at 16:06:43 Pacific
Reply:
sounds like 2 or more programs are trying to start at the same time you can use msconfig to change the order that progams start
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Response Number 2
Name: chad Date: October 9, 2001 at 17:56:00 Pacific
Reply:
Is norton one of them? If not which ones have an X throught them?
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Response Number 3
Name: Matty Date: October 9, 2001 at 23:28:18 Pacific
Reply:
Im getting the same problem...Boots up real quick, then just refuses to do anything for about a min. After that it runs smooth as. I havent even installed any programs, as its just been a fresh install.
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Response Number 4
Name: Irwin Date: October 9, 2001 at 23:41:40 Pacific
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I went to msconfig & disabled all start up programs but there was no change...same delay problem. The only program in the tray, with the "X" is Norton antivirus 2002 which is supposed to be ok with XP. But when I removed it, the start-up delay persists. FYI I am using a P4 - 1.7 on an MSI # MS-6529 motherboard for the 845. Does anyone have any other ideas?
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Response Number 5
Name: Wizball Date: October 10, 2001 at 10:30:43 Pacific
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Same here, the only thing I found to fix it was to disable my network card and it runs fine now! So until I can get around this problem my network card will stay switched off!
go to: START/SETTINGS/NETWORK CONNECTIONS then disable LOCAL AREA CONNECTION
Wizball
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Response Number 6
Name: Murali Date: October 10, 2001 at 13:35:44 Pacific
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i had the same problem when i had a USB Ethernet adapter. i got rid of the adapter and the machine booted up fast
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Response Number 7
Name: iRWIN Date: October 10, 2001 at 16:52:32 Pacific
Reply:
Found the problem..! After unchecking the following properties for my Linkysys Ethernet Line100TX fast Ethernet card: ==client for Microsoft networks ==file and printer sharing for Microsoft networks ===Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) win xp now boots up faaaast!
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