On Thursday, February 3, 2011, 16:32:34, Mark Partous wrote: > This PC (XP): 8 minutes to boot. Sometimes it takes 3 boots > before it starts up, because it hangs twice (almost at the > end of booting). If that happens I have lost half an hour. Problem > first occurred after Professional insurance software to > connect to several insurance companies' servers had been installed.
Make sure your hard drive isn't dying - slow boot up is often a symptom of that (of course, if that VPN software you installed has broken drivers, that's not Windows' problem). I don't have any XP machines anymore (except in VMWare), but I don't remember seeing any that needed more than 2 minutes to boot, even on slow laptops. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > Nobody notices when things go right. -- Zimmerman's Law of Complaints ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
