Windows logon takes ages while PC does nothing

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

It's very likely to be a problem with corruption in the default logon profile. (perhaps others too) and you could try creating a new
profile, and copying over the data, for each, to see if it helped.
811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile: http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;811151

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Mark L. Ferguson
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"Bennih" <Bennih.1omi0b@no-mx.msusenet.com> wrote in message news:Bennih.1omi0b@no-mx.msusenet.com...
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> When I start my PC, everything goes fine, until Windows XP comes up with
> a window that says "Windows is being started..." (my winows is german
> and says "windows wird gestartet..." but I assume my translationis
> correct). Normaly it says that for a few seconds and then the window
> changes, asking for your username and password. The problem is, that
> this takes way more than one minute, and in the meanwhile, my PC does
> nothing (the harddrive isnt doing anything). After that the system
> works fine. I installed bootvis and did a bootrecord, what showed me,
> that "Logon+Service" took over 100 seconds.
> I find this very annoying, can any body help me?
>
> Thanks
> Benni
>
> P.S: I just did a major hardware change (Athlon XP 2400+ , 512mb Ram->
> AThlon 64 3500+, 1024mb Ram) and had to use the repair function on the
> windows setup. The error didn't occur before.
>
>
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