Incredibly Long Logon Times

Kurtis · #1 01-24-2004, 10:14 AM

When I logon the screen hangs at the logon page fora a few minutes and then windows loads up at its normal, quicker rate. Windows seems to be starting up fine, but the logon screen seems to be holding it back for a few minutes first. Any suggestions?

chance · #2 01-24-2004, 10:20 AM

it's something starting up, from a driver, software, spyware, or ms service. check the msconfig startup and prune out what you dont have to have, run a spyware scan, and if this has little or no effect look up driver/chipset updates for your system.

Kurtis · #3 01-24-2004, 10:23 AM

Thanks for you help, do you know where I can get a spyware scanner to help me combat this? I've seen some but they will only remove it if you pay, a trial would do.

chance · #4 01-24-2004, 10:27 AM

http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10...ml?legacy=cnet

javert · #5 01-25-2004, 01:55 AM

There is a tool made by Microsoft called Bootvis.exe that scans all the processes that run during boot-up and produces some graphs to show you what process(es) are consuming the most time. This tool used to be available from microsoft.com, but as you can read about at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/.../BootVis.mspx, they are no longer providing it. However, it appears that you can still download it from other sites like http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/2/12-2-1.shtml.

I used this tool about a year ago to isolate what was causing my computer to boot a little slower than normal.

ToastMan · #6 01-25-2004, 12:07 PM

I have the exact same problem. I downloaded this BootVis tool and as you see in the pic, there is no program that holding back boot. There is only a 'gap'. This 'gap' is the time of the welcome screen. The welcome screen just stay there, the computer isnt thinking or anything, it just stalls for a while and then continue loading normally... weird...

Kurtis · #7 01-25-2004, 12:46 PM

Is there anything that you downloaded recently that might be causing the problem, any new program or file? I might have downloaded it too

Kurtis · #8 01-25-2004, 01:01 PM

My wait doesnt seem to be as long as yours, no processes seem to be loading either, hmm very odd....

ToastMan · #9 01-25-2004, 01:58 PM

Yea my wait is a little more than a minute, its nuts!
Anyways, I dont reckon downloading anything unusual lately.
Maybe a system restore will do the trick? I'm a bit a afraid doing that because I had some other unrelated problems after this one, and im afraid that they'll come back...

Kurtis · #10 01-25-2004, 02:48 PM

System restore would probably fix it but it might just come back afterwards. Also I have moved loads of files around so they are tidier and restore would undo that