extremely slow reboot

Anonymous
2011-10-05T04:46:40+00:00

I use a dell laptop with windows xp and am having extremely slow reboots.

specs:

MS Windows XP Home SP3

Intel CPU T2060 @ 1.60 GHz

2.0GB RAM

ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

Dell Inspiron 9400

Using Windows task manager I click on shutdown then restart

Once it restarts the first thing I notice on the screen is

Dell

then Windows XP

then a full black screen

Welcome on a blue screen appears at 1 minute 45 seconds

It takes more than 3 minutes for the day of the week, time and date to appear in the right lower corner

It takes more than 5 minutes for the start button to become responsive to a click

It takes more then 7 minutes to open Mozilla Firefox

How do I troubleshoot and get a faster reboot?

Using msconfig  services, hide all microsoft services the only item are my lexmark printer and Microsoft Automated troubleshooting service

under the startup tab the only item to start with reboot is ctfmon

With most software off on reboot how come it is taking so long?  Also I use Mcafee antivirus plus and I had the Mcafee boxes unchecked with reboot.  That is no evident active antivirus system load with reboot

i have checked for malware using Malwarebytes full scan approximately 8 hours and no malware

I have checked for malware also using Kapersky free download and it too found no malware

I use Ccleaner, Privacy Mantra and Glary utilities regularly

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-10-05T18:47:37+00:00

    I went to the soluto web site and then checked it out on www.downloads.com.

    It seems like this is what is needed to figure out what is happening with each reboot.

    It appears that this download is contaminated from a users comments.  I have been using the downloads web site as a screen to avoid malware.

    "downloads from blacklisted malware site: 98.137.149.56"

    by u70mvr2jqjo8ck on July 24, 2011

    Pros: Cute & inocuous UI

    Cons: downloads from ALL these IP addresses DURING INSTALLATION :

    65.54.87.118

    65.54.87.224

    70.37.63.107

    72.30.2.43

    98.137.149.56

    128.241.220.104

    129.250.35.251

    157.55.199.145

    173.193.13.50

    194.7.155.81

    208.93.137.60

    Summary: downloads from ALL these IP addresses DURING INSTALLATION :

    downloads from suspected malware site :

    98.137.149.56 ir1.fp.vip.sp2.yahoo.com 98.137.128.0/19 Yahoo-sp2

    as well as ALL these other IP addresses :

    65.54.87.118 blacklisted in one list cds115.sjc9.msecn.net 65.54.86.0/23 Microsoft

    65.54.87.224 cds206.sjc9.llnw.net cds206.sjc9.msecn.net 65.54.86.0/23 Microsoft

    70.37.63.107 Microsoft RR-RC-Adelphia-Orange

    72.30.2.43 ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com yahoo.com

    128.241.220.104 128.241.0.0/16 NTTC-GIN-AS NTT

    129.250.35.251 y.ns.gin.ntt.net blacklisted in three lists

    157.55.199.145 157.54.0.0/15 Microsoft

    173.193.13.50 softlayer.com Cloud Hosting 866-398-7638

    194.7.155.81 cybertrust.com acquired by Verizon Business

    208.93.137.60 CafePress Pro www.cppro.com

    ***removed link***

    How do i get this program and not get malware?

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-10-05T18:21:08+00:00

    With almost everything unchecked with msconfig services and startup most everything is in manual mode.  

    Suggestion:  this is not good and can be contributing to your issue.

    They should not be updating with a reboot.  If there are background programs that I do not know about or do not know how to alter.  Is there a way to find these?

    Suggestion:  Soluto

    Is there anything that can be gleaned from viewing windows task manager processes, performance etc?

    Suggestion:  yes... you can see which processes are consuming resources.

    For my computer > properties> allow indexing do you want to apply the change to C:\ only or C:, subfolders and tiles

    Which choice and why?

    *Suggestion:  1) Indexing happens mainly once and done (updates are quick.) You may just want to let it go, unless it's been more than a day.  2) apply changes to C: and subfolders, or your changes will be applied only to the top level of C:*

    AOL is a hog and it does not open automatically.  Only manual.  Again it may be one of thos that runs secretly in the background??? but it is set to manual.

    I do not know if I have an AV program to always download and install an update.  How do I check?

    Suggestion:  this is not likely your problem, but to find out you need to check the settings in your AV program itself.

    How do you uninstall all of the tool bars?  Are they all found viewing in add remove programs or is there some other method?

    Suggestion:  this depends on each browser... it's not a universal answer.

    I just want to be able to google search otherwise I do not need any toolbars

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-10-05T18:11:34+00:00

    With almost everything unchecked with msconfig services and startup most everything is in manual mode.  They should not be updating with a reboot.  If there are background programs that I do not know about or do not know how to alter.  Is there a way to find these?

    Is there anything that can be gleaned from viewing windows task manager processes, performance etc?

    For my computer > properties> allow indexing do you want to apply the change to C:\ only or C:, subfolders and tiles

    Which choice and why?

    AOL is a hog and it does not open automatically.  Only manual.  Again it may be one of thos that runs secretly in the background??? but it is set to manual.

    I do not know if I have an AV program to always download and install an update.  How do I check?

    How do you uninstall all of the tool bars?  Are they all found viewing in add remove programs or is there some other method?

    I just want to be able to google search otherwise I do not need any toolbars

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-10-05T18:05:14+00:00

    for the indexing when I viewed it the startup type was already manual.  Anything more to do with this indexing?

    With regards to the tool bars for each browser how do you eliminate all of them and just have a search for google for each.  I have these browsers on my computer:  Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and then AOL has its own browser which is similar to Internet Explorer

    In addition to the removal or McAfee Antivirus what else can be done to improve the start up times?

    Let me make a couple of suggestions.  (I came over from the MS Security Essentials forum.)

    1. Make sure you have one and only one real-time anti-virus application running.  More than one is a recipe for software conflicts and poor performance, and that probably includes boot times.  MS Security Essentials is very good, as are Avast and AVG free editions. I run MSE on my win 7 laptop, and AVG on my older WinXP machine.  I cannot comment on McAfee as I have no experience... I will say that you definitely do not need to pay for anti-virus.  There are several good choices.
    2.  Download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner from here:  http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx which is a manual scanner that does not install... it just runs from the executable. Run a full scan.  It is not real-time, so will not interfere with McAfee.  Between McAfee and this, I'd be reasonably confident you are not infected (assuming you pass!)
    3. Forget about registry scanners...
    4. Download and run Soluto from here:  http://www.soluto.com/  This is very good and safe (and free) software to optimize your boot time.  After you install, you reboot, and it watches everything that gets loaded as soon as the BIOS finishes POST and hands off to the OS.  It will then give you the time for each service, applet, etc. and advice on whether to leave it in boot, delay it (wait for the OS to settle down and become responsive) or pause it (don't start it...)   It knows not to even offer you a choice on critical OS requirements and services as well.  And it's easy to undo any changes later (it even undoes them itself if you uninstall it.)

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  5. Anonymous
    2011-10-05T17:59:35+00:00

    This is what I do re indexing:

    Open My Computer and right-click C: drive and select Properties. At the bottom of the Genereal tab, there is a box next to "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." I make sure it is unchecked. (It takes a while to complete!)

    I don't like extra toolbars, so I just uninstall them (I don't even bother going into browser settings.)

    You have AOL installed? There are many reports that AOL software can hog resources, too.

    The biggest reason for excruciatingly long startup times is when an AV program is configured to always download and install updates (and sometimes run scans) every time Windows is booted.

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