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From: bobster on 7 May 2010 14:41
When XP SP3 is loading, how many passes of the blue progress bar is typical
before the "Welcome" screen appears? Mine use to take about 4-5 passes but
now takes about 11-12.

I have only 3 things on my msconfig start list, use MS Essentials
virus/spyware and regularly run malwarebytes. How can I reduce the number
of passes of the blue progress bar?


From: Unknown on 7 May 2010 14:55
Don't start/load MSE.
"bobster" <fauxie(a)bogus.net> wrote in message
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> When XP SP3 is loading, how many passes of the blue progress bar is
> typical
> before the "Welcome" screen appears? Mine use to take about 4-5 passes
> but
> now takes about 11-12.
>
> I have only 3 things on my msconfig start list, use MS Essentials
> virus/spyware and regularly run malwarebytes. How can I reduce the number
> of passes of the blue progress bar?
>
>


From: Unknown on 7 May 2010 17:15
PS, a modem will also cause a long boot time.
"bobster" <fauxie(a)bogus.net> wrote in message
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> When XP SP3 is loading, how many passes of the blue progress bar is
> typical
> before the "Welcome" screen appears? Mine use to take about 4-5 passes
> but
> now takes about 11-12.
>
> I have only 3 things on my msconfig start list, use MS Essentials
> virus/spyware and regularly run malwarebytes. How can I reduce the number
> of passes of the blue progress bar?
>
>


From: bobster on 7 May 2010 18:54
I took MS Essentials off the startup list of msconfig. I also uninstalled
the dial-up modem and its driver. No change, still takes 11-12 passes of
the blue progress bar to get to the Welcome screen.

Any other ideas out there?


"Unknown" <unknown(a)unknown.kom> wrote in message
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PS, a modem will also cause a long boot time.
"bobster" <fauxie(a)bogus.net> wrote in message
news:eBS4yTh7KHA.3964(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> When XP SP3 is loading, how many passes of the blue progress bar is
> typical
> before the "Welcome" screen appears? Mine use to take about 4-5 passes
> but
> now takes about 11-12.
>
> I have only 3 things on my msconfig start list, use MS Essentials
> virus/spyware and regularly run malwarebytes. How can I reduce the number
> of passes of the blue progress bar?
>
>



From: VanguardLH on 7 May 2010 19:08
bobster wrote:

> When XP SP3 is loading, how many passes of the blue progress bar is typical
> before the "Welcome" screen appears? Mine use to take about 4-5 passes but
> now takes about 11-12.
>
> I have only 3 things on my msconfig start list, use MS Essentials
> virus/spyware and regularly run malwarebytes. How can I reduce the number
> of passes of the blue progress bar?

How many startup programs you chose to load on Windows startup. How many
services are enabled and how many you added for software installs. If any
of them perform intensive disk activities (cleanup, scan, etc). If WGA
connects to go look for an update. If any of your security programs check
for an update (anti-virus, firewall, HIPS, anti-malware, etc). Some
security products are more intrusive than others during startup, like MSE
will chomp up 90%, or more, CPU usage during startup than, say, Avast. The
more you install on your host the more startup programs you end up with and
the more that want to go check for updates. Poorly coded, incompatible, or
conflicting drivers can cause enlongated startup times.

Use SysInternals' AutoRuns to see all the locations used to define startup
programs that load up on your host. msconfig will only show some of the
startup locations. Also, many services added by software installs won't
show up in msconfig because those services get rolled in a common instance
of svchost.exe. Both msconfig and AutoRuns will show the list of services
but not what is rolled into svchost.exe, so go look at your list of services
(run services.msc) to see what got added. You might also start looking in
the Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) to see if there are any errors occurring
during startup.
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