PC Boots slowly

Sillychuckie

Chippy_Minton wrote:

See Chkdsk.exe or Autochk.exe starts when you try to shut down or restart your computer.

Well, there is nothing in the scheduled tasks whatsoever.
Also, when looking at the registry, that key they refer to (and ask me to type) already exists...

Ivanopinion. I shut the computer down as one should do but will do a full disc scan shortly.

Chippy_Minton

Sillychuckie wrote:

Well, there is nothing in the scheduled tasks whatsoever.
Also, when looking at the registry, that key they refer to (and ask me to type) already exists...

Have you tried Method 3 in that MS page?

Sillychuckie

Chippy_Minton wrote:

Have you tried Method 3 in that MS page?

Yep, no obvious problems reported with the disc..

When booting up, after disabling the splash screen, I now see the following:

- Usual bios stuff loads
- Drivers being loaded flash past the screen, takes a few seconds
- A blue screen pops up that simply says:
"Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Version 5.1 (Build 2600 SP 2)
1 System processor (511mb memoroy)."

It stays on this screen for approx 5 minutes whilst chugging away in the background.
- It then jumps to a black screen that says:
"Checking file system
Volume C is clean.
Checking file system
Volume D is clean.
Windows has finished checking the disc".

It then stays on this for approx 5 minutes whilst chugging away in the background.
- It then loads a blue screen, and over the following few minutes slowly populates the login screen.

The slow population of the login screen is because its a slow PC, but its really the 2 periods of 5 minutes before that I wan't to try and reduce.

The discs seem ok... so not too sure what is going on.

albertross_2

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2277196&postcount=8

skiddy2k

check your BIOS settings (press del at startup)... make sure "QuickBoot" is enabeled and "preboot execution" and "boot time diagnostics" (or similar)is disabeled

Sillychuckie

bios is deff ok and set to boot up in quickest possible time, settings wise.
albertross, sorry i hadnt had a chance to try those yet. will give it a go over the w.end.
thanks for all suggestions.

culpepper

http://www.computerhope.com/msdossys.htm

this page talks about how to disable the scan disk feature from running at startup.