Excruciatingly slow startup after SP2

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I have noticed that on both my computers (Dell desktop with XP Home and IBM
Laptop with XP Pro), the start-up process has slowed remarkably after SP2
was installed. On my laptop, it now takes almost 4 minutes from the time the
login password is entered until the startup process is completed!

Is this normal with SP2 and how can the process be accelerated?

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Here is one suggestion see if this helps. I did hear of this issue with SP2
installed although that was an issue with long logon times when logging into
Windows XP SP2 with a Domain account. Not sure if that is the case here:

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;832161

But try setting your Event Viewer so that Events are overwritten as
necssaary. For each of the type of events you right-click and choose
Properties. Then you will see the options. To get to the Event Viewer
easily go to the Control Panel | Choose Classic View | Administrator Tools |
Event Viewer.

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George Hester
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"Sitara Lal" <lalsitara@filter.indiatimes.com> wrote in message
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> I have noticed that on both my computers (Dell desktop with XP Home and
IBM
> Laptop with XP Pro), the start-up process has slowed remarkably after SP2
> was installed. On my laptop, it now takes almost 4 minutes from the time
the
> login password is entered until the startup process is completed!
>
> Is this normal with SP2 and how can the process be accelerated?
>
>