Since installing SP2 the other day, I've gone from a boot time of approx. 30 seconds to just short of 2 minutes. Basically, I'd like to know why??
The PC is a stand-alone system and essentially loads 3 things on start-up: Norton Firewall (2004), AVG and an ADSL modem driver. I disabled the warnings that the new Service Centre provides, as I don't use the auto-update feature and have both a firewall and anti-virus program (the Windows firewall is disabled).
I've run a BootVis trace (and optimisation) and the two items taking up the time are Logon + Service (91 secs) and the Shell (93 secs). CPU and disk usage during this particular period of time is negligable, there are no driver delays shown nor any created processes. On a side note, it also claims Disk Write Caching is disabled although I have selected it on in the device manager for the HDD (is there another way to check this?)
Can anyone provide me with details on what my PC is doing during this time, or further software to help diagnose the problem?
The PC is a stand-alone system and essentially loads 3 things on start-up: Norton Firewall (2004), AVG and an ADSL modem driver. I disabled the warnings that the new Service Centre provides, as I don't use the auto-update feature and have both a firewall and anti-virus program (the Windows firewall is disabled).
I've run a BootVis trace (and optimisation) and the two items taking up the time are Logon + Service (91 secs) and the Shell (93 secs). CPU and disk usage during this particular period of time is negligable, there are no driver delays shown nor any created processes. On a side note, it also claims Disk Write Caching is disabled although I have selected it on in the device manager for the HDD (is there another way to check this?)
Can anyone provide me with details on what my PC is doing during this time, or further software to help diagnose the problem?