Slowwwwwwwwww Boot

Hi,
Does anyone know of any software which will monitor a computer during the boot sequence to see what tasks it does during initial boot. My computer has recently decided to take 8 mins to boot, I have had all of the virus/spyware checked and all is OK so please confine your replies to my initial question. Regards, Dave

 

What is your OS?

In XP you can check the boot log located in C://Windows/ntbtlog.txt

How to Create a BootLog

Bootlog Analyser




How to Speed Up Windows Boot Time
http://www.pchell.com/support/how_to_speed_up_windows_boot_time.shtml
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1786122,00.asp
http://www.pcguide.com/opt/opt/bootSpeed-c.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=235571

 

Cheers M8,

Will give it a go tomorrow,

Regards,

Dave

 

Check that the Primary IDE channel is running in DMA mode, not PIO mode, you can find this setting in the Device Manager.