Bootup Question.

Hi, All,

I have recently set my bootup to Verbose settings and have a couple of questions:

When bootup reaches the "Playing Logon Sound" it stops for about eight seconds even though I have that option turned off in "Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices ".

It then shows this mesage: "Executing WgaLogon.dll" and stops for another ten seconds.

I used a small tool named: Remove WGA to successfully remove this message, but then I got another one named: execute wlnotify.dll in its place and this one hung for ten seconds. I've now done a System Restore and am back to square one. How can I resolve this problem?

Event Log is not Disabled in Services.

 

Hi Tedwood,

Where did you get these timing details from and where/why did you use "Remove WGA ".

I've not googled yet but this "tool" looks very suspicous.

Anyway you are talking seconds here on startup (once/twice a day) is it that important or is there an underlying issue (slow response etc).

 

Hi there, wildfire,

Thank you for your reply,

It's just that bootup time up has increased from about 35 seconds to eighty seconds which I've monitored with my wrist-watch. At that stage bootup would stop at "Loading Your Personal Settings" for about twenty seconds.

I modified a Registry key to enable Verbose settings and discovered this WgaLogon.dll being slowly loaded after the "Playing Logon Sound" delay..

Googling brought many responses from users with the same problem and in most cases using this RemoveWGA tool did the job for them.

Also, I can't see why my "Playing Logon Sound" boot time should run for eight seconds when it's disabled.

Actually, I found a post on the CNet Windows XP Forum from someone (nstrange) with exactly my problem, but no definite solution. It was dated Dec 2007.

 

To be honest Tedwood a bootup of 2 minutes for XP is quite reasonable, I'm still curious where you are getting these timings from. You do understand that due to multitasking even if the process takes 8 sec's etc they may not actually be doing anything during that time?

 

Hi, wildfire,

Okay, many thanks for that.

Perhaps I'm too impatient.