B
Ben
Hi,
I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and
Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point
where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes.
Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up
with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted.
However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with
Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once
you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes,
with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing
else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see
whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk
activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it
just seems to hang.
Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it
just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking
the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same
for other programs.
I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up
formatting due to another reason) without any issues.
Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix
it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and
see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue.
Many thanks
Ben
I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and
Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point
where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes.
Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up
with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted.
However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with
Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once
you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes,
with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing
else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see
whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk
activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it
just seems to hang.
Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it
just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking
the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same
for other programs.
I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up
formatting due to another reason) without any issues.
Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix
it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and
see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue.
Many thanks
Ben