I just ran a system recovery on a secret partition on my vaio, and it reverted back to sp1 and the win xp logo took about 8-10 seconds and I was logged in, but when I ran updates and installed sp2 (I wont do sp3, seems a bit too buggy), the windows xp logo displays anywhere from 40 seconds to a minute. The rest of the computer runs fine and and there is nothing that looks out of the ordinary…..
specs (it’s and old laptop about 4 years old….but I just use this for on the run stuff):
Intel pentium 4 2.66ghz
1GB ram
32.5gb HDD
integrated (obviously) graphics and sound……
PS: my xp LOGIN time takes no more than 3-4 seconds though, so it has nothing to do with startup items…
Thanks,
PSS: 10 points for best answer (and don’t tell me to check “NOGUIBOOT” in msconfig..I tried and all it does is take the same amount of time, without displaying the logo….
Thanks
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1 Jimmi P // Sep 8, 2008
Ok if it was the first time after the update this is just that windows does alot of the updating after the PC reboot.
Other reasons are that SP2 does make alot of system changes and adds a fair few new features which will cause the system to increase boot load times.
Also a fresh install systems always runs quicker then a system with any changes (just the nature of things)
Apart from it being a sloppy update (try removing in re-installing SP2) there is probably nothing else you can do.
Just finally update to SP3. Its better to have a buggy update (which it isnt really, no more then any other windows update) Then a PC with holes all through it.
2 KsE3 // Sep 8, 2008
honestly just be glad you computer still works i mean what an extra second or to and i just downloaded windows XP 3 and it works fine but the first time my computer was acting up and i ended up losing everything but as long as you have everything backed up you should be fine
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