We have a year old Sony Vaio laptop PCG-7D2L, that takes approx. six

and a half minutes to boot up. Any suggestions to help eliminate such

a long boot time?

Try a Adware & Virus scanner first. AVG Free offer both

http://free.grisoft.com/

 

Neil

<klocke@frontier-radio.com> wrote in message

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> We have a year old Sony Vaio laptop PCG-7D2L, that takes approx. six

> and a half minutes to boot up. Any suggestions to help eliminate such

> a long boot time?

>

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in the

System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No

Information Reports please.

 

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,

Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning

of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description

are important.

 

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

 

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you

should double click for further information. You can copy using copy

and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further

information.

http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp

(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

 

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double

click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a

button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event

Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of

the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from

Event Viewer.

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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FCA

Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute

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<klocke@frontier-radio.com> wrote in message

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> We have a year old Sony Vaio laptop PCG-7D2L, that takes approx. six

> and a half minutes to boot up. Any suggestions to help eliminate such

> a long boot time?

>

klocke@frontier-radio.com wrote:

>We have a year old Sony Vaio laptop PCG-7D2L, that takes approx. six

>and a half minutes to boot up. Any suggestions to help eliminate such

>a long boot time?

 

If you are certain that the computer is virus/spyware/malware free and

is not infested with any Norton/Symantec products then try Windows XP

Boot logger: http://greatis.com/utilities/bootlogxp/

 

Good luck

 

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

--

Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2008)

On-Line Help Computer Service

http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

 

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