Need help on startup slowdown   

My Gateway ML3109 normally runs lean and clean with only Office 2003 and no 
startup programs listed in Defender Explorer. Recently it has begun to slow 
down signifcantly on startup. 

I found errors logging in the Diagnostic-Performance>Operational Event Log, 
usually with a Critical 100 Event about startup degradation, accompanied by 
multiple Errors about indiviual apps/drivers taking longer to complete 
resulting in performance degradation in system start-up process. Most recent 
are Event 105 "Foreground optimizations (prefetching) took longer to 
complete, resulting in a performance degradation in the system start up 
process," Events 102 "This driver took longer to initialize, resulting in a 
performance degradation in the system start up process": HdAudAddService, 
PptpMinport, Ndistapi, NdisWan, AgereSoftModem; Events 101 "This application 
took longer than ususal to start up...": LogonUIxe, mmc.exe, svchost.exe, 
etc. Each time it seems to be different services, drivers and applications 
which are delayed and they individually troubleshoot ok.

I was advised by Gateway to do a clean reinstall which I have done twice 
with no change in the situtation, leading me to believe it might be a setting 
in the Boot or BIOS which is incorrect. It is the same with or without my 
Avast antivirus. Any help would be much appreciated because this is ruining 
what was once a fast notebook.

date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:02:03 -0700   author:   gregrocker

Re: Need help on startup slowdown   

gregrocker;813367 Wrote: 
> My Gateway ML3109 normally runs lean and clean with only Office 2003 and
> no
> startup programs listed in Defender Explorer. Recently it has begun to
> slow
> down signifcantly on startup.
> 
> I found errors logging in the Diagnostic-Performance>Operational Event
> Log,
> usually with a Critical 100 Event about startup degradation,
> accompanied by
> multiple Errors about indiviual apps/drivers taking longer to complete
> resulting in performance degradation in system start-up process. Most
> recent
> are Event 105 "Foreground optimizations (prefetching) took longer to
> complete, resulting in a performance degradation in the system start up
> process," Events 102 "This driver took longer to initialize, resulting
> in a
> performance degradation in the system start up process":
> HdAudAddService,
> PptpMinport, Ndistapi, NdisWan, AgereSoftModem; Events 101 "This
> application
> took longer than ususal to start up...": LogonUIxe, mmc.exe,
> svchost.exe,
> etc. Each time it seems to be different services, drivers and
> applications
> which are delayed and they individually troubleshoot ok.
> 
> I was advised by Gateway to do a clean reinstall which I have done
> twice
> with no change in the situtation, leading me to believe it might be a
> setting
> in the Boot or BIOS which is incorrect. It is the same with or without
> my
> Avast antivirus. Any help would be much appreciated because this is
> ruining
> what was once a fast notebook.


Use the system configuration utility to do a clean/diagnostic boot,
help for this is available within the utility. this may help in finding
startup problems.


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glatzfront

date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:51:07 -0500   author:   glatzfront