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    Very Slow Boot Time with SXPS 16

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by guitardude7, Jul 9, 2009.

  1. guitardude7

    guitardude7 Notebook Guru

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    A week or two ago my Studio XPS 16 use to boot up fairly quickly, but now it takes about 3-4 minutes to boot up from shut down. The only things I have running at startup are Zonealarm, Skype, Dell Touchpad, NOD32 Antivirus, and Dell Quickset. I'm running Vista 64-bit. Has anyone else experienced slow boot times with their SXPS 16?
     
    guitardude7, Jul 9, 2009
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  2. krionX

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    IMO that's a Vista/software issue.
     
    krionX, Jul 9, 2009
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    Why do you have NOD and Zonealarm running at the same time ? That's a no no !
     
    HCW, Jul 9, 2009
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    Same issue here...what antivirus are you running?
     
    jmwein, Jul 9, 2009
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    Can you be more specific?

    Power press --> log in screen
    Log in screen --> Desktop
    Desktop --> Useble
     
    ImakE, Jul 9, 2009
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    For me, I get to the log in screen in the same amount of time as when I first got the computer. The difference is the time after I enter my password until it gets to the desktop. It used to take about 5 seconds. Now it could take between 45 seconds and 2 minutes. I think it has to do with my McAfee Enterprise Antivirus.
     
    jmwein, Jul 9, 2009
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    unless he's using just the zonealarm firewall.
     
    socarwolverine, Jul 9, 2009
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    Wait, you've got ZoneAlarm, NOD32, and a corporate McAfee Antivirus running on there? I think that may be part of your problem- I don't think you need McAfee AND NOD32 on there at the same time... one will do the trick. You may not even need ZoneAlarm (I'm assuming its just the firewall) depending on whether your security has one or not.
     
    b-dizzle, Jul 9, 2009
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    Ha the OP and I are two different posters. I don't have ZoneAlarm and NOD32 running.
     
    jmwein, Jul 9, 2009
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    NOD32 is an anti-virus; Zonealarm is a firewall(I'm using the free edition).
     
    guitardude7, Jul 9, 2009
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    Oh... DERP. My bad, should've looked more closely...
     
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    I also forgot to say that I don't have a password setup, so when I'm talking about this long boot time, it's from the point when I turn it on to the point when windows is fully booted. This process does not include the login screen.
     
    guitardude7, Jul 9, 2009
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    mind us giving a full log of file when scanned through "Hijackthis"

    Google 'Hijackthis'. Free software. After you install, make a quick scan and the upload the log here.. .. Thus we make know the exact processes that you are running.
     
    mhatrey, Jul 9, 2009
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    From pressing the power button to the logon screen usually takes me about 40 seconds (thank you 7200rpm). Then 5 or 6 seconds to my desktop and then within 2 minutes it's up at full speed
     
    funky monk, Jul 9, 2009
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    I found that the Dell Dock is the one thing that really makes my computer slow to boot. Even with HP's version of the dock they have is very slow when its enabled for boot up.

    After disabling the Dell Dock and the HP "Dock" I noticed my load to "desktop usable" was ready much quicker than before.

    Could be just me though ;)
     
    Kalison, Jul 10, 2009
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    The stock hdd for me, took around 2 min 30 seconds to load.

    G.Skill Falcon SSD drive with Windows 7 = 10 seconds.
     
    anthony256, Jul 13, 2009
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    zonealarm is crap just get rid of it, tends to cause more issues than it prevents. Nothing beats a good hardware firewall. Saw it all the time. Someone would bring in a computer having issues with the internet or even other problems and more often then not would have zonealarm installed.
     
    Skraeling, Jul 13, 2009
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    Ya I uninstalled Zonealarm along with SP2 and the boot time is back to normal now. I've been having another weird problem though; I am unable to end processes in the task manager. If a try to end a process, nothing happens. Has anyone else noticed this glitch in Vista?
     
    guitardude7, Jul 13, 2009
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    Do i get props for calling the zonealarm fail :)

    Is it any process you cant end or just specific ones?
     
    Skraeling, Jul 13, 2009
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    unistall zonealarm....NOD32 + Vista Firewall is enough, IMO
     
    XPSboy, Jul 13, 2009
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