trouble at welcome screen

[cybermaniac]

hey guyz

im havin a spot of bother.

for the past week now, whenever i try to start my pc up, it stays at the welcome screen for about 10-20 seconds before going to the desktop.

ive tried disabling all non-microsoft services, tried disabling all startup items, tried running bootvis, defrag says the drive doesnt need defragging, chkdsk doesnt turn up much......

and i havent done a hardware upgrade recently, nor have i updated any drivers/software

ive also run adaware, spybot S&D, xoftspy - they turn up nothing.

ne ideas?

 

[llwyd]

i had this problem a while ago, cant think what exactly fixed it tho. tried restting the bios? think thats what did it for me

 

[systech]

same as mine,and bios has been restarted but nothing change......:eh:

 

[FragTek]

Format is a good solution to all Windows problems that seem to occur unrelated to anything... I hate Windows.

 

[cybermaniac]

I hate Windows.

same, but unfortunatly its the only thing widely supported by manufacturers.

plus format aint an option atm.

 

[Ham]

Tryed booting up in safe mode to see if thats any different?

Are you the only person who uses the pc or is it a family unit?

 

[cybermaniac]

Tryed booting up in safe mode to see if thats any different?

Are you the only person who uses the pc or is it a family unit?

in safe mode boot time is reduced to about 15secs (full boot - bloomin amazin imho).

and im the only one that uses this pc, no1 else has access to it.

 

[llwyd]

Then do some serious driver cleaning

 

[cybermaniac]

Then do some serious driver cleaning

how?

please elaborate

 

[systech]

uninstall all driver and reinstall it??

 

[cybermaniac]

ive found out what was wrong.

as ive got dual LAN ports, it seems that it was trying to find a network on the second (unused) lan port.......

weird, but meh, its solved it - thx for all the help guyz.

 

[systech]

well done! mate