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Hi, Not sure if this question fits in this category best so please move it if there is more appropriate place for it: I am experiencing a problem that I didn't have before - - long delay in system startup of Windows XP Pro SP1. I have ran bootvis to check and I have determined that I have long delay (>5 sec) between logon+services end and explorer start during which the CPU and disk activity is ~0% (computer is practicaly idle like it is waiting for something). All programs from startup are launched after explorer so they cannot be the source of this. It is either some service or driver. How can I log startup in more details (/bootlog does not list times in the log file)? How to figure out what causes this delay? Any suggestion will be much appreciated. Thanks.

CASE CLOSED, installed ATI Catalyst 4.1 and the delay is gone!!!

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Beats me, thats why I am asking you people, please any ideas how to do a more detailed trace of boot procedure??

Sorry about the links, they work if you copy and paste into a new browser window. I don't have web space of my own so I had to use free hosting. One thing to add, I haven't installed outlook, just word and excel.

Disabling "always wait for network..." didn't help. /sos booted without any confirmation prompts. I have made some screenshots from bootvis for you to see what is going on, it really drives me nuts: http://fire.prohosting.com/hotemina/images/delay_1.gif http://fire.prohosting.com/hotemina/images/delay_2.gif Without USB 2.0 hub, USB CD ROM, USB keyboard and USB mouse: http://fire.prohosting.com/hotemina/images/delay_1_nousb.gif http://fire.prohosting.com/hotemina/images/delay_2_nousb.gif A friend of mine has the similar problem (long delay before explorer starts) on office machine and on laptop at home. Not a virus, he checked it. Only thing in common on all three computers is recently installed Office 2003. Any ideas?

@Visceroid: # but maybe its network related? No, no network card (gigabit LAN but disabled in BIOS), using dial-up. # Does the windows "Event viewer" tell you anything else about this problem? It says: [x] EventSystem: "The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 80070422 from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error." COM+ services (and all related services) are disabled I don't use any applications that need it. [x] VSS: "Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206." However, this is strange. I don't use any backup utilities, nor I use system restore which is also disabled. [x] DCOM: "DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments "" in order to run the server: {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF} " These are the only 3 messages with red cross. Most of the unneeded services are disabled. All programs work normaly. As I said delay is before explorer and before any programs under "run" key or from "startup" folder. @Tomay: # Did you try to run the system in sos mode or confirm steps I didn't and I will thanks. @Jerry: # are u logging into a network? No, single computer, single user admin priviledges with autologin enabled. # "always wait for the network..." Says not configured and I am not part of a domain, what is default then? I will try to disable it anyway. Thanks, guys I will let you know if I get anywhere with your tips. Please comment on those errors if you can.

55 views and not a single reply? Hm, perhaps I really have a problem here. Just disabled all services except those needed for proper system functioning and it still happens.

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