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Thanks for the input. The slow start happens before any apps are
loaded. I hadn't yet loaded any apps beyond the usual MS stuff,
Explorer etc. It would wait for a minute or more, then it would take
less than a minute to load the OS and any apps. In any event, I got
the NIC to work and downloaded all the updates to ME. Now the computer
starts in a normal time, less than 90 seconds total. Still not sure what
caused the slow start.
E B Lund wrote:
> The most common cause of slow startup are excessive programs loading
> up at startup. You said there appears to be no harddrive activity, so
> this might not be it, but it is worth considering. How many icons are
> in your tray after startup? What does the three finger salute show
> running?
>
> Here is a link that addresses the phenonom:
> http://msn.pcworld.com/article/124577-1/article.html
>
> William Closure
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:59:30 -0500
> From: Russ Cox <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Compaq connundrum
>
> I have a Compaq Presario 5050, 333MHz Celeron, 164MB RAM running Windows
> ME. Two perplexing issues:
> It spends a full minute or more showing the Compaq splash screen with no
> apparent hard disk activity. Then it proceeds to boot up into ME.
> Takes more than 2 minutes to fully boot, quite a bit longer than other
> computers using the same connection. What's causing that long startup
> delay?
>
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