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re: Something else that slows down system bootup
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 6:43 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by speedwell
(2 messages posted)
Hi, Dex. (Any chance you're the Dex I know from... let's say ANOTHER forum? The
one who designed the spherical house?) Thanks for the help.
You should know that I had the identical problem on four computers. Two were behind
two different firewalls (my work and someone else's work), and two were at different
locations but not behind firewalls (my home and another person's home, both dialup
but using different ISPs). In each case I had activated the Hosts file in Spybot,
and deactivated it when I found that startup and/or dialup was very slow (which worked).
If it's just a coincidence, it's an odd one. Of course, since I had set up some programs
on all four computers, the problem might possibly be due to some system settings
or conflicts. It took a long time and some digging before I had the idea that the
Hosts file might be part of the problem, though.
On Monday, October 18, 2004 at 12:26 pm, speedwell wrote:
>Spybot S&D is a WONDERFUL program, but if you are running the HOSTS file that it
>uses to check certain ads and spyware against an internal list of baddies, for some
>reason it can make your start-up take forever. It doesn't do this to everyone.
>On other computers it can make dialup internet access take minutes to connect. (This
>is from personal experience with computers at home and at work... I'm not an expert.)
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