Here's the situation. When I had SP1, during the progress bar during the Window's logo would be about two full cycles before going into windows. Total boot time would be 20 secs or less. This is the exact same on two different computers of mine with nearly the same startup/registry/services configurations.
To sum up, I had 0 programs starting up, most powerful registry tweaks (prefetch=5, disable paging executive, iopagelocklimit, alwaysunloaddll), and i only have nearly the bareminimum services running after startup. Also did a defragment, and a defrag on the boot sectors. No viruses nor spyware either. This was after a fresh reinstall.
However, after I installed SP2, I get like nearly 15 bars before I get into windows. Under no circumstances can I get it even NEAR the previous startup times. I've read that the "prefetch" tweak doesn't work for SP2, but can SP2 be THIS much slower???
To sum up, I had 0 programs starting up, most powerful registry tweaks (prefetch=5, disable paging executive, iopagelocklimit, alwaysunloaddll), and i only have nearly the bareminimum services running after startup. Also did a defragment, and a defrag on the boot sectors. No viruses nor spyware either. This was after a fresh reinstall.
However, after I installed SP2, I get like nearly 15 bars before I get into windows. Under no circumstances can I get it even NEAR the previous startup times. I've read that the "prefetch" tweak doesn't work for SP2, but can SP2 be THIS much slower???