jeffw_00 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 (edited) Hi - I have a WIN XP Home SP3 machine - runs NOD32 continually and Spybot weekly. and for a while now, whenever it reboots, it sits at "loading personal settings" for 2-3 minutes. There's only one active user, and it automatically logs into that account. There's about 3.5GB under Documents and Settings , but the profile is local. Any thoughts about what could be tweaked to shorten this, or what the problem could be?Thanks very much!/j Edited December 11, 2009 by jeffw_00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 What CPU and how much memory in the computer and what version of NOD32?How many things loading and what are they (on boot)?Those things should help us to understand a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 good point - should have mentioned. I use startup.cpl and almost nothing is loading, and what does load, I can see doesn't start until after the 2-3 minute pause. I just tried it now with all possible TSRs disabled - still got the delay/j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hello,What sort of connectoion to the Internet does the computer have?I have seen that happen on computers running NOD32 when it goes to check for updates and the network connection isn't up yet. Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 internet connection is always-on COMCAST Broadband. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 thanks but that doesn't seem on point - no problem shutting machine down, and no roaming or locked profiles thanks anyhoo/j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbdietz Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I believe Microsoft TechNet's Autoruns utility (article here, free download as a .zip here) shows some items startup.cpl may miss.Have you used Event Viewer (Start-->Run-->eventvwr.msc) to check for corresponding errors in the system and/or program logs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 thanks - event viewer found an unneeded, application-specific service failing on startup.you guys are the best!/j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) Hello,Can you tell us what it was? That way there will be a record of what the problem was and how you solved it in case any other forum members have the same exact issue.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Edited December 16, 2009 by goretsky fixed misspelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffw_00 Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 some Peachtree-related service that didn't need to run at startup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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