Slow start up

albertross_2

Having two resident virus scanner loaded at the same time isn't usually a good idea.

Do these both have a printer installed?

You could try disabling the spooler service, start, run, services.msc, print spooler, double click and change to manual, as a test. It appears to be taking 40 seconds to load, unless it is malware.

if you right click on c:\windows\system32\spoolsv.exe properties version, does it say 5.1.2600.2696 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050610-1519) It may be d:\.....

It is strange that these are all on d: is it a medion? Also strange is that the times don't add up or match the timestamp.

sleepali

albertross wrote:

Having two resident virus scanner loaded at the same time isn't usually a good idea.

Do these both have a printer installed?

You could try disabling the spooler service, start, run, services.msc, print spooler, double click and change to manual, as a test. It appears to be taking 40 seconds to load, unless it is malware.

if you right click on c:\windows\system32\spoolsv.exe properties version, does it say 5.1.2600.2696 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050610-1519) It may be d:\.....

It is strange that these are all on d: is it a medion? Also strange is that the times don't add up or match the timestamp.

Thanx for your quick response.

NOD32 is my only virus scanner, Sygate is my PF and Norton utilities does not run a virus check, I use it for scandisk, Windoctor etc.

I have changed spooler service to manual as suggested but no change in boot up time (from initial 'boot' to 'log on').

When I right click on c:\windows\system32 etc, I can only find spool not spoolsv.exe so can't check the properties.

I have two hard drives installed in each machine so that's why you can see c & d listed in the bootlog. (Can't understand the time thing either??)

I will now close this one and open the other (only got one ethernet connection as of yet) and display the bootlog from that for comparison (as kindly suggested by Woo).

Back soon

tomstickland

Compare the two boot logs and see where the time difference occurs.

albertross_2

Sorry, read Norton and though a/v, forgetting what Peter Norton was famous for .. utilities..

Have you got a dual boot setup, with more than one o/s. The spooler is on d: on your PC..

sleepali

albertross wrote:

Sorry, read Norton and though a/v, forgetting what Peter Norton was famous for .. utilities..

Have you got a dual boot setup, with more than one o/s. The spooler is on d: on your PC..

No I haven't got dual boot, my o/s is on d:

Here's my 'other' bootlog

Started at: 26.08.2006 23:13:39.374
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:39.374 Duration: 0 sec
System Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:43.952 Duration: 27.136 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\smss.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:49.990 Duration: 3.528 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\autochk.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:50.084 Duration: 0 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:53.054 Duration: 0.685 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:53.892 Duration: 12.045 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:54.816 Duration: 9.34 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:54.836 Duration: 6.677 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:55.174 Duration: 20.972 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:55.970 Duration: 1.831 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:55.186 Duration: 20.447 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:55.352 Duration: 11.112 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\logonui.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:56.782 Duration: 0.754 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:56.848 Duration: 15.503 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:57.332 Duration: 41.576 sec
C:\Program Files\ESET\nod32krn.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:59.980 Duration: 13.186 sec
C:\Program Files\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE Start: 26.08.2006 23:13:59.570 Duration: 24.785 sec
C:\Program Files\Sygate\SPF\Smc.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:00.674 Duration: 19.835 sec
C:\Program Files\Speed Disk\NOPDB.EXE Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:01.610 Duration: 23.261 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdfmgr.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:01.208 Duration: 0.162 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:05.320 Duration: 1.325 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WgaTray.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:05.624 Duration: 15.639 sec
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:06.778 Duration: 13.891 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\alg.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:06.390 Duration: 0.643 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:08.488 Duration: 0.315 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\verclsid.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:09.160 Duration: 0.478 sec
C:\Program Files\ESET\nod32kui.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:09.852 Duration: 3.651 sec
C:\Program Files\Sygate\SPF\Smc.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:10.074 Duration: 2.038 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:10.076 Duration: 2.246 sec
C:\Program Files\CCleaner\ccleaner.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:10.490 Duration: 7.999 sec
C:\Documents and Settings\Alison\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Reboot.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:10.526 Duration: 1.514 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\regedt32.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:11.724 Duration: 0.89 sec
C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:12.830 Duration: 0.208 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:16.198 Duration: 5.183 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:17.326 Duration: 0.32 sec
C:\WINDOWS\system32\imapi.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:18.608 Duration: 0.203 sec
C:\Program Files\Greatis\BootLog XP\TraceLog.exe Start: 26.08.2006 23:14:43.270 Duration: 0.152 sec
Monitoring stopped at: 26.08.2006 23:14:43.574
Duration: 64.199 sec

I've noticed that 'this' machine boots up (to log on) a good 30 sec faster than the other one.

woo

Windows defender appears to be installed on one and not the other - that is the biggest stand out for me..

sleepali

woo wrote:

Windows defender appears to be installed on one and not the other - that is the biggest stand out for me..

I've only just installed Windows defender on the other machine as per a post on this site.

It hasn't made any difference to the start up but thanx for your comment..noted

Lisa.O

Go to start - run - type in msconfig - go to the tab marked startup and check out what programs star up when PC is switched on - when you install software some times programs are embedded into the startup - disable the ones that you can can start up manually as and when you need them - I recently did this for father in-laws PC and found that there were 15 programs starting up when PC was switched on - that didn't need to be - such as games, dictionary, isp (I always start mine when I need it) etc etc, that should help to speed up the startup of your PC

woo

i can't see any other major difference or anything to explain the boot up time difference, there are some other minor differences - such as ccleaner on the quicker one.

are these xp? if so wouldn't have expected to see wmiprvse.exe in the list.. but then that is on the quicker one anyway.

not much use i'm afraid

sleepali

Lisa.O wrote:

Go to start - run - type in msconfig - go to the tab marked startup and check out what programs star up when PC is switched on - when you install software some times programs are embedded into the startup - disable the ones that you can can start up manually as and when you need them - I recently did this for father in-laws PC and found that there were 15 programs starting up when PC was switched on - that didn't need to be - such as games, dictionary, isp (I always start mine when I need it) etc etc, that should help to speed up the startup of your PC

The only thing that's on both start ups is 'reboot'.

It's the time that it takes from boot up to the windows log on screen that's very different, everything else after that is fine.

Thanx for your suggestion