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| Posted : | Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 01:48:19 AM |
| By : | spoon_ |
| Windows hangs at login | Configuration: |
After logging in Windows plays the Windows Start sound, but cursor goes to hourglass and desktop never comes up. I have to kill the explorer.exe process in the Task manager and start a new one before the desktop will appear. Any ideas on a fix?
| Operating System : W2k Pro
CPU/Processor : P3/128MB RAM
RAM : P3/128MB RAM
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Re: Windows hangs at login by _hank3 on April 13th, 2004 02:11:00 PM
Download and install StartupCPL.
http://www.mlin.net
Use it to disable any startup items that you may not recognize. You can always re-enable the items that you want.
Run SpyBotSD and then Ad-Aware to catch any spyware that might have gotten installed.
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Re: Windows hangs at login by the_dr on August 01st, 2004 12:52:02 PM
This was never fixed by the NT Team. The NT Team was abandoned, apparently for being more successful than the Windows 95 Team.
The 95 Team simply took over the NT Team's work and called it XP.
XP exlporer is slow and will hang if given too many tasks, such as indexing, which is very poorly handled by fastfind.
Fastfind actually works slower than indexing without findfast or fastfind, whichever it is called.
Bad programming. There are no provisions for a process taking too much time and no path for return from the executing function.
All in all, it shows the sub-professional programming going on at Microsoft.
If you've found a way to fix it, that is, by killing explorer and letting it restart on its own, then you already have a fix.
Explorer gets lost on bad checksums in its master file system, which is a leftover from IBM's directory structures and not a very good one.
Master file systems, in general, are a very poor way of organizing data. The use a database taking up hundreds of megabytes of space, and then replicate the same information to actual directory structures.
They were based on COBOL, which never could achieve directory architecture.
XP is actually NT 5.1 if you look at the versions information.
Both get lost and are very slow at directory listings.
Maybe the new Team should study the unix directory structure, which is much faster and not limited in filename characters. That is, they should get away from IBM architecture.
By the way, XP Home has gone to not logging onto a domain, which means it can't logon properly and filter out Internet viruses.
Something to think about. |
Re: Windows hangs at login by Anonymous Ghost on November 18th, 2004 02:35:39 AM
hmm How about an answer without so much anti windows soap-boxing? |
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