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by yuemo

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I upgrade my NT workstation to Win2K pro. It takes a few minutes to start up. The evidences:

1. During upgrading process, when I got "setup is starting windows 2000...", it will no action for a few minutes (no disk indicator light). Whenever the disk light blinks, it will go very fast. At first few trials, I just turned off the computer, thought it was freezen. One time I leave it along, and it did go.

2. Now after the upgrade is done, same long waiting for me in the start up. I think it took 2-3 minutes to have the blue screen coming, after that, it is quick. Again, during the waiting time, no disk activiity.

So I guess that I have disk problem. Is it right?

Thanks!

-Yuemo

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by 4u21der

Sounds more like bad registry entries and to many unnecessary services starting. Try to disable some unneeded services.
Also check and make sure that you do not have any strange network settings that where carried over from your Win9x upgrade.
Did you also convert the file system to NTFS? If not this is another thing I would do. ( c:\convert /? )

Another issue is if you are loading a security policy. That can slow the login process down.

I have also noticed that Win2K is very memory intensive. Try upgrading the RAM if at all possible.

As always, defraging a drive is a good idea.

Good Luck!

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