I have two computers, identical except one has a pentium 2.4 gig and the other an athalon 1.8. When the pentium gets to the black winxp screen with the scrolling horizontal line it takes 40 seconds to get past that. The computer boots fine after that. The athalon takes only 15 serconds at that screen. Is it the differences in the processors that causes that or is there something else? Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi Larrycleve,

There are many things that could affect a system to be slower or faster than other, even if they were configured as the same way... processor, mobo bus, memory sticks, disk speed, and so on, can act as different ways on different systems.

For your info only, I am running a Athlon XP 2000 (1.66 GHZ) with 128 MB RAM, and it takes 43 seconds to shut down and 1:14 to boot up on power on...

You may have some different processes loading and running on both systems, that affects the boot-up/shutdown time, and this is quite normal.

Just have in mind that, if your systems seems to be ok, do not worry about slightly differences between them.

Chris

as ironbender said........ many varibles but you might want to post a hijack log from:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/HijackThis_d3155.html

and post it here:

http://www.suggestafix.com/index.php?act=SF&f=15

to see what's loading on each....

Someone on another forum suggested bootvis which I tried. I also disabled all remote services. This cut the boot time down to 24 seconds which I'll take as a significant improvement. Thanks for the suggestions.