time taken to boot the workstation is very high

[shirdisai]

hello everybody,

i am having windows 2000 server network with xp workstations, one of the workstations is taking 15 minutes to boot up, where as others are booting with in 5 minutes, how to make the system boot fast, any thing related to user profiles, any suggestions are appreciated

 

[bazzert]

If the machines get used by a lot of users and you are not deleting the profiles as they logoff then the machine will have to verify each profile at startup. Profiles can be large if users are using their own wallpaper etc.

Try deleting the profiles of the machine and see if boot up is quicker.

Pulling profile from server each time someone logs on doesn't take that long assuming you have a decent network.

 

[theomen]

You could try checking what is starting up using the msconfig utility (go to start > run and type "msconfig").

Try unticking everything to start with, and rebooting. If its quicker, try putting the tick back in the box for a few items at a time and reboot, if it suddenly slows down, you have an idea of what may be causing it.

Also try running something like Adaware, we had a similar problem with a laptop here, it was taking ages to boot and was very slow anyway, I ran adaware and found about 500 items such as spyware etc. I removed it all, and now it runs fine.

 

[buddafish]

perhaps this workstation does not have correct DNS information. if a machine is not aware of a valid DNS server, the inital search for SERVICE records to locate a DC can take a very long time...

scottie