Are you using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5  Platinum?
Beware there is a bug in that sw, when used with W2k, causing an extremely
long boot time.
Roxio has a patch at their web site, but some people say you must reinstall
Windows 2000...

Good luck!
/Göran Halfvarson


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Vacca <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows2000 Professional


> I recently had my computer upgraded from 450Mghz to 1000Mghz and then
> had the hard drive reformated and Windows2000 Professional Installed,
along
> with some other software. I also have 256K of memory. I'm wondering if the
> following is a problem.
> It takes an awful long time for my PC to boot up(between 5 and 10 minutes)
> and even longer to shutdown(between 10 and 15 minutes).
> If I'm up and running and I do a restart, it takes a solid 15 to 20
> minutes to go through the shutdown and reboot cycle.
> While booting, it gets to the point where the little bar is moving from
> left to right. It gets almost to the end and just sits there. You can't
> really tell what it's doing since it just sits on that one screen. Is
there a
> way to tell what it's doing? Same question during shutdown.
> Is this
>  normal under this operating system? If not, could it have something to
> do with my upgrade? Is there anything I can do to improve the startup and
> shutdown time?
> Also, I was told that Windows2000 Professional is incompatible with
> Soundblaster AudioPCI. It seems to be true because I have no sound. Are
there
> any driver files that I can download to make my soundcard is compatible,
or
> do I just need to get a new compatible soundcard?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
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