X P start up problem

richard burton · From: Britain

It can sometimes take me an hour or more to start my computer. I usually have to press F8 and either reboot or try last good configuration several times before it is up and running. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, R B.

Rob Hamilton · From: Acton, MA, USA

Send a nastygram to Bill@microsoft.com.
Seriously though, you may have unwanted junk in your startup manager, put there by adware/spyware. Or you might have a computer virus. Once your computer is running does it behave more or less normally? Have you tried running an adware/spyware program such as Ad-aware from www.lavasoft.de ? Windows XP is infamous for "phoning home" to Microsoft, even when you instruct it not to. Is it trying to access a powered-off modem or cable box when you start up?

--Rob Hamilton

Everett Cox · From: Marengo, OH, USA (deceased)

Richard-- You haven't given enough detail to really nail the solution. I'd hazard a guess, though, that you've had some previous crash or shutdown problem that left your hard drive messed up. Scandisk is probably being invoked on startup and has found the disk needs a 'thorough' or 'surface' scan. If you have a fairly large disk and have not partitioned it into smaller 'logical' drives, the scan can take a very long time.

If Scandisk IS being run at startup, LET IT FINISH. --Everett

Ron Page · From: Penn Yan, NY USA

I've been searching Microsoft's Knowledge Base to check on issues like this. Select Windows XP and have it search for "startup" and you'll get 25 hits, including a webcast on troubleshooting startup and shutdown problems.

[This message was edited by Ron Page on 06 November 2002 at 09:46 AM.]

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