Slow boot up on laptop with XP Pro SP2

[Pauly]

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Windows XP Pro. I recently updated to SP2,
and now my boot time is 3-4 minutes, compared to 30-45 sec before the update.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm not sure if this is a Microsoft prolem
or a Dell problem. I am really considering uninstalling SP2 to see if that
was the cause of my problem. Is there a way to see what is taking so long to
load during boot-up, so I can tell where my true problem lies? Thank you for
any help.

[Alasdair]

check out the event viewer and see if there are any failure to start the
disable it/them
Alasdair

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"Pauly" > wrote in message
...
>I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Windows XP Pro. I recently updated to
>SP2,
> and now my boot time is 3-4 minutes, compared to 30-45 sec before the
> update.
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm not sure if this is a Microsoft
> prolem
> or a Dell problem. I am really considering uninstalling SP2 to see if
> that
> was the cause of my problem. Is there a way to see what is taking so long
> to
> load during boot-up, so I can tell where my true problem lies? Thank you
> for
> any help.

[Jarhead]

This is the response I got from Dell when I asked them to help me with the
SP2 problems on my Inspiron 5100 (network cards won't work):

"At this moment WindowsXP Service Pack2 is not tested and validated on Dell
systems and we do not recommend it as of now. I will suggest you to please
unistall Windows SP2"

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"Pauly" > wrote in message
...
> I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Windows XP Pro. I recently updated to
SP2,
> and now my boot time is 3-4 minutes, compared to 30-45 sec before the
update.
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm not sure if this is a Microsoft
prolem
> or a Dell problem. I am really considering uninstalling SP2 to see if
that
> was the cause of my problem. Is there a way to see what is taking so long
to
> load during boot-up, so I can tell where my true problem lies? Thank you
for
> any help.