services.exe consuming memory and consequently 15 minutes to bootProblem Description: It would appear that since update KB973687 was installed my Dell Inspiron 640m is taking an age to boot. I am running XP SP3 with all updates installed, have 2 x 512mb memory installed and microsoft security essentials is turned on and no virus found. Running task manager on booting I note that services.exe has 2 user objects running. Peak memory usage reaches around 500,000 to 600,000k and Virtual memory size increases to over 2,000,000k. Once VM reaches around 2,200,000k it then starts to release very slowly and eventually reduces to a size of around 6,000 -7,000k and then has just one user object running. It is not until this time when the system becomes usable. This is happening on every boot and takes around 15 minutes for the system to be usable.I have read many articles on this issue and, other than a clean reinstall which I do not want to do, cannot find a solution.Your help would be greatly appreciated.Operating System: Windows XP1 person needs an answerI do too

what you can try is to boot the system to safe mode.if you find that windows safe mode performs much better than what you are experiencing in normal mode,then one of the reasons may be that the third party services and startups are inhibiting the performance of normal mode.in which case, a clean boot (not a clean install) might be a reasonable step to excercise.db`...>-)))> `...>-)))> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces- @Hotmail.com "share the nirvana mann" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >