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REALLY slow start up....

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by treborsnikwad

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Ever since I got this new SystemMax Venture PC from CompUSA (Pentium D 925, 2GB RAM), the darn thing takes FOREVER to boot up....it shuts down really fast, but it takes between 5 to 8 minutes to boot-up (it's XP Professional SP2)...my old Dell popped right up when I hit the "go" button....other than this, it runs great...but, it's like it's running though a scandisc or something every time I turn it on...just a blank screen, then 5 minutes later, "BAM!", I get the XP logon screen....anybody know what gives?
Rob

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by majo213

I had the same problem and came to find out it was the Symantec Client VPN installed on the computer. Once I removed it booted up normally. The issue is normally going to be a network issue whether it is a driver, as was the case for me, or a network printer or network share that Windows is trying to connect to.

by treborsnikwad

I don't have any Symantec software in my PC, but I do have an HP C3100 series printer with the All-in-One software suite that runs on the system...could that be doing it? Or, is there a network driver running somewhere behind the scenes that I can locate and disable?
Rob

by dumphrey

a network card driver, a video driver, a mapped network drive unavailable, dhcp taking to long, etc etc....
I would download bootvis
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664
and run that to see if you can get more info on what exactly is hanging up your computer.
Run bootvis and check its output graph, and see where its hanging in the boot process, at that point, helping you speed up the boot should be simple.

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