Long boot time

[dangermouse]

Hello,

I have a friend who has 2 machines (running Windows) hooked up together with a hub and some network cable. One of the computers takes a really long time (about 5 minutes) to boot. Does anyone know what I can try to get the boot time down to normal?

Thank you,
- Sean

[mystic]

Based on my experience with Windoze - a 5 minute boot-up is normal.

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[dangermouse]

Here's what I did:

- Added the IP address of 192.168.0.1 to the TCP/IP properties of the network card

- Added the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 to the TCP/IP properties of the network card

- Removed 3 occurences of network.vbs (a virus) from the slow machine

That sped up the boot process quite a bit.

- dangermouse

[Tweak Man]

Originally posted by dangermouse:
Here's what I did:

- Added the IP address of 192.168.0.1 to the TCP/IP properties of the network card

- Added the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 to the TCP/IP properties of the network card

- Removed 3 occurences of network.vbs (a virus) from the slow machine

That sped up the boot process quite a bit.

- dangermouse

I had the same problem and tried your suggestion and now my computer boots up fine.