Long boot rime

This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about 35-40
seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to take only about
10 seconds. What could be going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing new,
or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even
hardware changes?
--
Mike Maltby



Martin Murray wrote:

This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about
35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to
take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed, including
the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing new,
or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even
hardware changes?
--
Mike Maltby



Martin Murray wrote:

This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about
35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to
take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

If that is the only change, my bet is that the printer software has itself
in the startup axis by default. What brand of printer did you get? If it
is a Lexmark, you need to kill the 'phone home' stuff.
Heirloom, old and it could happen


"Martin Murray" wrote in message
...
The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,
including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing new,
or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even
hardware changes?
--
Mike Maltby



Martin Murray wrote:

This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about
35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to
take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

It is a Versajette M300.

"Heirloom" wrote in message
...
If that is the only change, my bet is that the printer software has itself
in the startup axis by default. What brand of printer did you get? If it
is a Lexmark, you need to kill the 'phone home' stuff.
Heirloom, old and it could happen


"Martin Murray" wrote in message
...
The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,
including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
What changes have you recently made to the system such as installing
new, or upgrading existing, programs, updating drivers and perhaps even
hardware changes?
--
Mike Maltby



Martin Murray wrote:

This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about
35-40 seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to
take only about 10 seconds. What could be going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

That's all.

That's all? Sounds a hell of a lot to me and if that is the only change
then look no further, you've found the reason for your slow boot-up. Now
what you've got to do is decide how much of the junk that was installed
with the printer driver that you want being loaded each time you boot your
PC.

Look first at the utilities, these rather than the drivers are the most
likely candidates. Ask yourself, do you need (all) these utilities?
--
Mike Maltby




Martin Murray wrote:

The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,
including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

As I am sure you know, all of these utilities will still be available to
you.....you will simply have to start them manually as needed. I always
found that Me likes to be run 'lean and clean'.........
Heirloom, old and clean is good

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
That's all.

That's all? Sounds a hell of a lot to me and if that is the only change
then look no further, you've found the reason for your slow boot-up. Now
what you've got to do is decide how much of the junk that was installed
with the printer driver that you want being loaded each time you boot your
PC.

Look first at the utilities, these rather than the drivers are the most
likely candidates. Ask yourself, do you need (all) these utilities?
--
Mike Maltby




Martin Murray wrote:

The only thing done recently is that a new printer was installed,
including the drivers and utility software for it. That's all.

Martin Murray wrote:
This is a new behaviour for this computer. It is now taking about 35-40
seconds for the login screen to appear on boot. It used to take only about
10 seconds. What could be going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I assume you could do start run msconfig and look for startup
entries for your printer.