HP Pavillion a345w takes an extremely long time to boot up. Archived from groups: comp.sys.hp.hardware () For no apparent reason, my HP Pavillion a345w takes about 25 minutes to boot. It takes almost 20 minutes for it to move past the HP logo screen. It...

Boot takes too long. When I first installed Vista and until a few weeks ago it booted very quickly. However now after the welcome message comes up and the little spinning ring it takes a while to load. Fist it loads the welcome screen slowly then boots into...

microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () My Winxp boot takes 592 seconds (according to MS bootvis.exe). Do my Microsoft bootvis.exe results (see URL below) show what is taking inappropriately long for Windows XP to boot up? I'm amazed I can...

Boot Menu Then when I press F2 after a long time about 3 minutes it finally says on another screen "Secondary drive O not found" "Secondary drive 1 not found." It takes about two minutes to boot up after I press F1 to continue. I can't find what's...

MS05-002 on 9x and ME. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.security,microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsme.general () Microsoft has received reports about issues with KB891711 on Windows...

the login screen. The only way I could get it to function was to tell my BIOS to boot from the Vista drive and then do a clean install on it. It works for testing, but not for permanent use. I have read a couple of posts regarding some guys doing dual boot...

down with it. ME takes the longest to boot??!! WinME is the fastest booting OS around. There Must be something wrong with your installation if WinME is taking the longest boot time. I run a similar setup. WinME Win2k Mandrake Linux (I use Grub...

remove any newly installed hard drive, or something like that. I decided to try booting up in Windows 7, and surprisingly, it worked like a charm. From there, I created a logical partition. I restarted my computer, selected Windows XP from the boot screen,...

on consumer PCs because it requires hardware-accelerated 3D. And we're not talking about high-end hardware folks -- I have 5 year old video cards that can render Aero all day long. This is the installed base PC gaming has to deal with. Part of the problem...

a fairly easy to grasp diagram showing you when each program loads during bootup and how long each of them takes to do so, it might look as though your Antivrus is taking longest but remember it's section of the plot will probably be showing you the...