Slow XP Startup & Login Since Media Player 11 Installation?

August 31, 2008

Hi,

I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and

Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point

where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes.

Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up

with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted.

However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with

Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once

you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes,

with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing

else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see

whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk

activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it

just seems to hang.

Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it

just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking

the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same

for other programs.

I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up

formatting due to another reason) without any issues.

Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix

it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and

see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue.

Many thanks

Ben

September 1, 2008

Re: Slow XP Startup & Login Since Media Player 11 Installation?

Does it take this long a second reboot? There's a one-time setup completion

process that occurs on the first reboot, but not afterwards.

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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"Ben" <bjblackmore@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:6c7b41ae-2c6a-40ba-839f-fa4622f68364@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,

>

> I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and

> Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point

> where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes.

>

> Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up

> with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted.

> However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with

> Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once

> you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes,

> with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing

> else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see

> whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk

> activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it

> just seems to hang.

>

> Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it

> just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking

> the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same

> for other programs.

>

> I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up

> formatting due to another reason) without any issues.

>

> Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix

> it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and

> see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue.

>

> Many thanks

>

> Ben

September 1, 2008

Re: Slow XP Startup & Login Since Media Player 11 Installation?

On Sep 1, 7:52 am, "zachd [MSFT]"

<za...@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Does it take this long a second reboot? There's a one-time setup completion

> process that occurs on the first reboot, but not afterwards.

>

> --

> Speaking for myself only.

> Seehttp://zachd.com/pss/pss.htmlfor some helpful WMP info.

> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

> --"Ben" <bjblackm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>

> news:6c7b41ae-2c6a-40ba-839f-fa4622f68364@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

>

> > Hi,

>

> > I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and

> > Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point

> > where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes.

>

> > Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up

> > with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted.

> > However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with

> > Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once

> > you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes,

> > with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing

> > else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see

> > whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk

> > activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it

> > just seems to hang.

>

> > Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it

> > just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking

> > the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same

> > for other programs.

>

> > I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up

> > formatting due to another reason) without any issues.

>

> > Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix

> > it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and

> > see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue.

>

> > Many thanks

>

> > Ben- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, have rebooted about 8 times, each time its close to 10 minutes to

completed startup+login. Apps are taking over 2 minutes to start, IE7,

Firefox, 'My Computer' etc. Click on them, wait2 - 3 mintues, the

program will eventually open, another minutes for it to completely

load to the point where you can start surfing/begin using whatever

program you opened.

Ben

September 1, 2008

Re: Slow XP Startup & Login Since Media Player 11 Installation?

On 1 Sep, 07:52, "zachd [MSFT]" <za...@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com>

wrote: