sayeo87 Posted December 27, 2007 Report Share Posted December 27, 2007 Hi, I've been having this problem for a long time but never had the time to solve it until now, so I won't know what I installed/removed during the time the problems started. The main problem is that Windows will take > 2 minutes at the part where it says "loading your personal settings" during startup.- A while ago I checked my system for spyware/viruses and determined that system was completely clean and am quite certain is still clean right now.- I have basically nothing running during startup except for a VPN client which I need and which I already tested by disabling but determined it didn't have much effect on startup time at all. - I have also just defragged my harddrive and currently it says I have 0% fragmentation.- I installed Microsoft's bootvis to track what is going on during startup and it showed that a lot of time was spent at $MFT and the disk defragmenter analysis report showed that my MFT was 99% in use and 223 MB in size - is that something to worry about?- I installed PCPitstop's Disk MD and it showed that a restore snapshot file\REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE has 310 fragments - could this be the problem?- What's strange is I set up a new user and it starts up much faster without any problems!I know I can just move everything to the new user and use that but I want to refrain from that and actually find out what's causing the problems on this user.Can anyone offer any help on this? It will be much appreciated. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Try Startup Inspector 2.2 here :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 If that doesn't improve things, check these in this order:1 - how much RAM do you have? 768MB is really the minimum for XP Professional.2 - Check your disk sectors by running Check Disk (My Computer> rt cl the drive which has your systems on >Properties> Tools> Error Checking/Check Now> tick both boxes> Start> Yes to schedule check on next boot up. Shut down and re-start).3 - Use Start Up Inspector as mentioned by andsome above to see what programs are being launched when you boot up.Hope some of these help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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