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re: Solutions to ''Slow System Startup''
Friday, October 15, 2004 at 3:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Art
(3 messages posted)
Where does this show the names of what's loading? I made the reg changes but can't
find/see anything different.
On Monday, February 16, 2004 at 5:27 pm, Josie wrote:
>I had been having problems with XP taking several minutes while "loading personal
>settings" I tried all the usual suggestions eg taking all unneeded items out of
start
>up, and checking I wasn't having any DHCP problems.
>
>Then I discovered this Reg Hack which shows which files are actually being executed
>while windows is loading (rather than just saying loading personal settings):-
>
>***************************************************************************
>Show Verbose Security Status Messages (Windows 2000/XP)
>This setting allows you to configure Windows so that you receive verbose startup,
>shutdown, logon, and logoff status messages. This may be helpful to in troubleshooting
>slow startup, shutdown, logon, or logoff behaviour.
>
>Open your registry and find or create this key:-
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies
>-> System
>
>To enable verbose status messages create a new DWORD value called "verbosestatus"
>and set it to "1". (verbosestatus REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1))
>
>An additional value called "DisableStatusMessages" forces status messages to be
disabled,
>make sure this value does not exist or is set to "0". (DisableStatusMessages REG_DWORD
>0x00000000 (0))
>
>Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
>
>
>Registry Settings
>
>System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies
>System]
>Value Name: verbosestatus
>Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
>Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = enable verbose status)
>
>System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies
>System]
>Value Name: disablestatusmessages
>Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
>Value Data: (1 = default, 0 = enable verbose status)
>
>
>****************************************************************************
>
>Once I enabled this I found that my computer was taking several minutes to load
a
>file called msg117.dll, so I googled that and found it was a rather perisitant piece
>of spyware! See this link for removal instructions
>
>http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/look2me/index.phtml
>
>You will have to remove it manually as while some anti spyware software (ad aware
>etc) will detect it, they cannot actually remove it.
>
>Just a brief note on this I found that I couldn't delete the msg117.dll file from
>my computer (even in safe mode) as it kept coming up access denied (I guess because
>it was loaded by windows during start up), however I could rename it so that it
wouldn't
>load on the next boot. Having done that I rebooted and could then delete it no
problems.
> It's also worth checking the registry again as I had to delete the keys several
>times, as they kept reappearing.
>
>So after all that I've finally got my boot time down from several minutes to about
>10 seconds! :)
>
>I hope this helps!
>Josie
>
>
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