Guest Martin Murray Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 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 Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 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 Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 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 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 Heirloom Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 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 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 Martin Murray Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 Re: Long boot rime It is a Versajette M300. "Heirloom" <nobodyhome@noplacelike.hom> wrote in message news:OFlEbJtMIHA.3516@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > 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 Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 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 Posted November 30, 2007 Posted November 30, 2007 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 news:uLS%23K4tMIHA.2308@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> 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 Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 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.
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