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Try Boot Log Analyzer (Freeware) from
http://www.vision4.dial.pipex.com/
It might help you to pin down the cause of the slow boot-
ups. (NB - it also
works on WinME)

Look at the 'Duration' column and look for an event (or
events) taking
several 'tens' or 'hundreds' of seconds, instead of
fractions or several
seconds. (5 mins = 300 seconds)

Also see "Load Failures Listed in the Bootlog.txt File"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;127970

If you not sure how to decipher the results, you might
need to seek the
assistance of your local PC repair shop. To be fair, the
BLA page does state
that " ... interpreting the results requires in-depth
technical knowledge."

HTH

Mart


"ray" wrote in
message
...
I just installed ME on a formatted hard drive.
Everything is working good except it takes a long time
to
boot up. It gets to the windows screen and just sits
there. The only thing on screen is a green background
and the hourglass mouse pointer. The red light is
flashing so it is doing SOMETHING, but I don't know why
it is taking so long. It takes about 1-2 mintues of
just
sitting there before the windows screen finally comes
up
with all the icons and whatever.


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