Delay in booting up
System boots up ok till wall paper displayed then a delay of 1.5 min. before windows finally loads ok. No problems thereafter. There is some activity on the hard drive during delay but no change in status. Have run all diagnostic (AGV PC tune Up) tests but no cure. Any help much appreciated.Thank you1 person needs an answerI do too
January 5th, 2011 9:35am

1. check whether any antivierus scanning is running2. Windows update is downloading.3. check the hard disk space4. Please do system cleanup and disk defragmentation.5 check the system properties - advanced tab - perforamance settings - advanced - back ground service - Change button - incrase the value of the custom values in swap file.
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January 5th, 2011 10:11am

AVG updating could cause the delay. It's most likely the same with any alternative security software.I suggest you download Process Explorer. This freeware utility performs a similar function to the Windows Task Manager but it goes much further. For further information about Process Explorer see here:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx In Process Explorer please add a Column. Select View, Select, Columns, Process, Performance and check the box before Start Time. Next select "Show Processes from all Users" and click on the column header "Start Time". This will sort so that you can see start with the earliest first. You may need to click twice or three times. On my Windows 7 box the first item I see is smss.exe =Session Manager. You should then see a long list of items loading over a brief period of time. The boot process ceases on my computer with the loading of two AVG files (my anti-virus is AVG 2011). Before these two files is a uns.exe file which loaded this morning 2 minutes 20 seconds after smss.exe. Usn.exe is an Intel file so it may not be on your computer. How long does it take from smss.exe loading for the main files to load? What are the files arriving at and towards the end? How long does it take for them to appear after smss.exe? Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell
January 5th, 2011 10:26am

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