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| 517735 | 2007-01-20 03:32:00 | Can anyone explain this? Yesterday afternoon I switched on my 4 month old ASUS A6000KM (laptop) running XPPro. It took an age to boot up, well 6 mins. when I timed the second attempt. Googling suggested that it was either an infection or too many apps. loading at Startup etc. Assuming the worst I did 3 different scans, Housecall found some HTTP cookies, deleting them made no difference. The other 2 scans found nothing. So lets investigate option 2. I have pared the Startup menu to a bare minimum anyway but still followed that course. I found references to an MS diagnostic tool BOOTVIS but explanations of its use weren't very clear. Since MS no longer supports it, I downloaded it from Softpaedia...well I tried to, twice. But there was no sign of a download. I even looked for a "balloon" message but nothing. Something prompted me to check whether Bootup time had changed. Hey Presto! ......back to 20 seconds. A coincidence? One of Ms's usual glitches? I'm intrigued. Martynz |
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| 517736 | 2007-01-20 07:25:00 | Bootviz was used by Microsoft bofins to diagnose boot problems. Its not meant to cure boot problems, but the times Ive used the optimize option it has helped. BTW M$ has never offered support for this tool since its release into the public domain. |
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