Hello,

My PC has been experiencing the following symptoms for a while: The time from boot to the login screen is like 3 (three) seconds. After I click a user name, it takes like 30 (thirty!) seconds to load the profile and show my desktop.

Anyone knows what is happening?

Just guessing here.

1. Maybe your profile's got a huge number of programs that load in the background. Remove programs that are not necessary to your daily PC workload.

2. You may have installed/uninstalled alot of programs and registry is kinda full of unused files that are still loaded or even files that are needed but can't be loaded. Just run a registry cleaner.

3. Hard disk free space is at critical level. Just delete porn movies



4. There's a weak sector where a program loaded at startup is residing ... just run checkdisk.

5. Could be fragmented hard disk. Just defragment

6. I dunno if there's a new virus that affects profiles ... probably loads itself up and tries to propagate during startup

Boot using a clean bootdisk and scan for viruses.

Can't think of anything else as of the moment.

I think I've heard this has something to do with network settings, did you change your connection/settings when this started?

A place to start is to google and download bootvis.exe, which will analyze your startup. Also this might be the problem.

Thanks.

I don't have any scanner or imaging device.
No virii.
Network settings were taken care of a while ago, by eliminating the lookup for scheduled tasks by shutting down the corresponding service.
It's not fragmented HDD. I regularly maintain this - once a week.
Registry cleaner is run every one or two weeks.
Programs that run at startup: the antivirus and zonealarm.

The long period of wait is previous to the loading of the startup programs. It occurs during the "loading your profile" message.

My porn movies are in old VHS format.

I think I'll try the scandisk option when I go home. That's the only option that hasn't been covered yet.

you should also install startupcpl , it will help you enable and disable all startups regardless of it's place in the registry


http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

That might be one of the cooler little windoze apps I've seen in a while.


Something else to try. Turn off your system disk cache, reboot, shutdown all apps that you can and then run the disk defrag several times. Once done, turn disk cache back on but as a set size, don't let it resize at will, causes lots of fragmentation of the cache file. Then reboot.

Gentlemen, this was solved months ago. I really appreciate your help, though.

Many thanks.