Long boot rime

[Guest Martin Murray]

This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about 35-40

seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to take only about

10 seconds. What could be going on?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Long boot rime

 

What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing new,

or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even

hardware changes?

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

Martin Murray <email@martinmurray.com> wrote:

> This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about

> 35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to

> take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

>

> Thanks in advance for any help.

[Guest Martin Murray]

Re: Long boot rime

 

The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed, including

the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

 

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

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> What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing new,

> or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even

> hardware changes?

> --

> Mike Maltby

> mike.maltby@gmail.com

>

>

> Martin Murray <email@martinmurray.com> wrote:

>

>> This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about

>> 35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to

>> take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

>>

>> Thanks in advance for any help.

>

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Long boot rime

 

If that is the only change, my bet is that the printer software has itself

in the startup axis by default. What brand of printer did you get? If it

is a Lexmark, you need to kill the 'phone home' stuff.

Heirloom, old and it could happen

 

 

"Martin Murray" <email@martinmurray.com> wrote in message

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> The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,

> including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

>

> "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

> news:OjMWERsMIHA.5852@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>> What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing new,

>> or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even

>> hardware changes?

>> --

>> Mike Maltby

>> mike.maltby@gmail.com

>>

>>

>> Martin Murray <email@martinmurray.com> wrote:

>>

>>> This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about

>>> 35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to

>>> take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

>>>

>>> Thanks in advance for any help.

>>

>

>

[Guest Martin Murray]

Re: Long boot rime

 

It is a Versajette M300.

 

"Heirloom" <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote in message

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> If that is the only change, my bet is that the printer software has itself

> in the startup axis by default. What brand of printer did you get? If it

> is a Lexmark, you need to kill the 'phone home' stuff.

> Heirloom, old and it could happen

>

>

> "Martin Murray" <email@martinmurray.com> wrote in message

> news:en6sutsMIHA.4480@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,

>> including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

>>

>> "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

>> news:OjMWERsMIHA.5852@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>>> What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing

>>> new, or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even

>>> hardware changes?

>>> --

>>> Mike Maltby

>>> mike.maltby@gmail.com

>>>

>>>

>>> Martin Murray <email@martinmurray.com> wrote:

>>>

>>>> This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about

>>>> 35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to

>>>> take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

>>>>

>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.

>>>

>>

>>

>

>

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Long boot rime

 

> That's all.

 

That's all? Sounds a hell of a lot to me and if that is the only change

then look no further, you've found the reason for your slow boot-up. Now

what you've got to do is decide how much of the junk that was installed

with the printer driver that you want being loaded each time you boot your

PC.

 

Look first at the utilities, these rather than the drivers are the most

likely candidates. Ask yourself, do you need (all) these utilities?

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

 

Martin Murray <email@martinmurray.com> wrote:

> The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,

> including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Long boot rime

 

As I am sure you know, all of these utilities will still be available to

you.....you will simply have to start them manually as needed. I always

found that Me likes to be run 'lean and clean'.........

Heirloom, old and clean is good

 

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

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>> That's all.

>

> That's all? Sounds a hell of a lot to me and if that is the only change

> then look no further, you've found the reason for your slow boot-up. Now

> what you've got to do is decide how much of the junk that was installed

> with the printer driver that you want being loaded each time you boot your

> PC.

>

> Look first at the utilities, these rather than the drivers are the most

> likely candidates. Ask yourself, do you need (all) these utilities?

> --

> Mike Maltby

> mike.maltby@gmail.com

>

>

>

> Martin Murray <email@martinmurray.com> wrote:

>

>> The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,

>> including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

>

[Guest llanalott@yahoo.com]

Re: Long boot rime

 

 

 

Martin Murray wrote:

> This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about 35-40

> seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to take only about

> 10 seconds. What could be going on?

>

> Thanks in advance for any help.

 

I assume you could do start> run> msconfig and look for startup

entries for your printer.