Startup problem

[Tommy Flynn]

I have just recently purchase a new PC (Dell) with XP. Seems to be a fine
operating system in general but I do have a problem/question concerning
startup. When the PC boots up, everything seems to be up and running but
about a couple of minutes later, Norton Antivirus loads. There doesn't seem
to be anything going on, but until it loads, I'm "dead in the water". Is
there any reason for this approx. 2 minute delay? I had the same software
(Norton System Works) on my old PC and everything loaded immediately.

Thanks,

Tommy Flynn

[Jon]

Never used Norton System Works but does it specifically says on its packet
that the version you've got is compatible with XP?

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Try to clean boot the machine. Start > Run > msconfig, uncheck all the
check marks in the general tab and reboot the machine. If it comes up
normally then chances are there is a third party application (norton in
this case) would need to be updated/uninstalled

Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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I have just recently purchase a new PC (Dell) with XP. Seems to be a fine
operating system in general but I do have a problem/question concerning
startup. When the PC boots up, everything seems to be up and running but
about a couple of minutes later, Norton Antivirus loads. There doesn't seem
to be anything going on, but until it loads, I'm "dead in the water". Is
there any reason for this approx. 2 minute delay? I had the same software
(Norton System Works) on my old PC and everything loaded immediately.

Thanks,

Tommy Flynn

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Bitstring >, from the wonderful
person Tommy Flynn > said
>I have just recently purchase a new PC (Dell) with XP. Seems to be a fine
>operating system in general but I do have a problem/question concerning
>startup. When the PC boots up, everything seems to be up and running but
>about a couple of minutes later, Norton Antivirus loads. There doesn't seem
>to be anything going on, but until it loads, I'm "dead in the water". Is
>there any reason for this approx. 2 minute delay? I had the same software
>(Norton System Works) on my old PC and everything loaded immediately.

2 minutes is a bit long. Try start, run, msconfig and look on the
startup tab to see what-all is being loaded (norton should be there as
well). You could try turning it all off (nothing there is actually
essential) and seeing if that solves the problem.

There is always some delay - XP does a good job getting the desktop up
fast, but is still faffing around loading and initializing services, and
startup items, maybe making restore point, saving 'last known good',
possibly looking for network devices (if you happen to have a NIC, or
Firewire card) and various other things .. some of which you can turn
off, some you have to live with.

Exactly how long it should take depends on how much memory you have, how
fast your CPU is, and exactly what services and startup programs you
have chosen to load and run.

--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

[Dick Baker]

"Tommy Flynn" > wrote in
:

> I have just recently purchase a new PC (Dell) with XP. Seems to be a
> fine operating system in general but I do have a problem/question
> concerning startup. When the PC boots up, everything seems to be up
> and running but about a couple of minutes later, Norton Antivirus
> loads. There doesn't seem to be anything going on, but until it
> loads, I'm "dead in the water". Is there any reason for this approx.
> 2 minute delay? I had the same software (Norton System Works) on my
> old PC and everything loaded immediately.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tommy Flynn
>
>

I've been using Roxio GoBack's activity logs lately to troubleshoot other
problems, but what I've discovered is that at every boot up, Norton AV's
Live Update feature makes a massive amount of calls home to Norton looking
for updates and changes a hell of a lot of files--even if you've rebooted
just minutes before and can be reasonably sure that Norton hasn't updated
all its virus data files in the interim.

I have a high-speed, cable-modem connection and can see the delay caused by
that activity. If all that traffic is passing over a slower web
connection, you could well be seeing a much longer delay.



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Dick Baker - Falls Church, Virginia, USA