Slow booting after installing SP2

Question

Hi,
I have been experiencing this problem after istalling SP2 on my Toshiba M30. I istalled SP2 few times before and unistalled it for that same reason. The boot up time is now around 2.5 min istead of 30 sec before istallation. I installed SP2 on a cleaned machine (removed spyware, cleaned registry, defragmented and so on), followed all necessary steps. But still the same. I get the machine loading around 1 min before it gets to wallpaper, before SP2, right after the welcome sound it went to wallpaper, then icons and the bar and I was done. Now, welcome sound, then 30-40 sec, then wallpaper and nothing for 1-1.2 mins and then I get icons, bar and machine becomes operational. Nobody from my fiends have this problem. Please, if anybody knows what to do - let me know. Thank you!
Message was edited by: ruarmani

Answer 1

Hi
As far as I can remember the SP2 installs additional firewall and security settings. Its possible that all this features loads at the beginning. This takes several times.
You could check the background processes and the applications which start at the beginning.
This can be check in the msconfig. Type the command msconfig in the run window and check the startup tab.
The booting procedure takes a little bit longer on my notebook because of the antivirus application which loads at the beginning.