I don't see any unnecessary stuff on there. Yes it does
let me order the duration column.
It wasn't just really just suddenly, what I did was I
formatted the hard drive and put Win ME on it because I
was having lots of other problems. I started over
completely and from the beginning that I did it, it has
been slow booting before I put anything in it.
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Well, those figures look reasonably 'normal', so I don't
think you've a
problem there. BTW - you can 'order' the timing by
clicking on the
"Duration" column heading.

The only other thoughts a-

Did this "slowdown" suddenly happen?
Have you loaded any new software recently?

Check your start-up axis for 'unnecessary
programs/utilities.
Try http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php and
checkout the second
bullet point in particular

Mart



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I'm guessing it's seconds
the longest one is InitDone = TSRQuery (time estimated)
under delays, it shows the following:
Loading Vxd=vnetbios.nxd 1.000
Dynamic init device PCI 0.944
Enumerating Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)("blah
blah stuff") .278
Enumerating USB Root Hub (USB\ROOT_HUB\PCI"blah
blah") .389
Dynamic init device PPPMAC 1.056
Initing esdi_506.pdr .333
Initing esdi_506.pdr .611
initDone=TSRQuery(time estimated) 1.722
EndTerminate=User(time estimated) ###.###

The time on the left column starts at 20:44:56 and ends
20:45:03 then at the EndTerminate=User(time Estimated)
it goes to 21:22:36 and has a long list of "Removing"
and "Removed" things and ends at 21:22:36

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The largest one was 1.722

Minutes or seconds?

If minutes, then that *might* explain your "1-2 minutes
just sitting there"

But you need to identify the cause of the 1.722 at that
point. What
operation does it say is taking place at that time?

Mart


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The largest one was 1.722
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Try


http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/boo...alyzer123.html

Mart



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The first link doesn't work, page cannot be
displayed
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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
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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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