WinXP <b>SP2</b> stalls on bootup

[alienationware]

I recently installed SP2 for WinXP on my laptop. Why does my laptop sometimes stall for ~2 min. before WinXP completely starts up?

 

[Jerkstore]

how many times have you rebooted?
it installs things for SP2 on the first bootup...

 

[alienationware]

I installed SP2 w/o any trouble. I'm probably on my 40th boot, and it still stalls for ~2 min sometimes on boot up.

 

[jancz3rt]

Heya...

I have had the same problem as you. I have not found a solution to it and it really annoys me. I have started using hibernation instead of restarting or shutting down.

JAN

 

[Dngrsone]

Try turning off indexing-- in hard drive properties, uncheck "Allow indexing service..." and apply to all folders and subfolders.

 

[alienationware]

What is this indexing service that you speak of?

 

[Dngrsone]

It inventories your drive to make searches faster. Thing is, I haven't met but one person who searches more than once a month, if that, so it's generally an unnecessary slowdown of the system at bootup, IMO.