PC Hangs between Splash Screen & Desktop

Many of the older systems I support do the same thing. I think it depends on the speed of the hard drive and maybe the bus speed. No one has ever complained about it, it's just the way it loads. However, you might try launching Windows without the splash screen. That way it would boot right to your desktop. In the last ling of your autoexec.bat file, enter

WIN :

It should skip the screen.
Hope that helps.

You didn't mention if you've tried examining the boot log. If not here's how. You can generate C:\bootlog.txt when starting your system by pressing F8 nad selecting choice 2 . That will generate C:\BOOTLOG.TXT . Once you have that, you can view it in notepad, or even nicer, use a free utility to examine it. At http://www.vision4.dial.pipex.com/ they have a bootlog analyser. I've used an older version and it makes things easier. I expect the new one is even better -- and it's FREE. It shows the duration of events. You can click on the columns and sort by duration to identify events that take long, or sort by clock time and look at things in sequence. A good tool.

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