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I've had lots of trouble with my Windows installs on my Boot Camp partitions. With Vista, I've had to reformat pretty much a couple months after the first install, every time. It would eventually just stop loading the desktop. This is not the point of my post though. I am currently running XP, which I prefer to Vista. My problem now is the same as the first time I tried Boot Camp and installed XP (and found no solution to, hence the Vista option). XP takes FOREVER to load. After it's started it runs great. Takes only seconds to load from the partition selection screen to the Windows loading screen. Windows loading has a reasonable time (10ish seconds?). Then the blue "Welcome" screen shows up along with the standard sound. This Welcome screen takes up to 3 minutes to go away to finally show the desktop. I know people are having larger problems than I, but I have to restart into XP many almost every day and this is just way too long to have to wait when XP starts in a reasonable amount of time on any PC. Some observations: Before installing all of the necessary Windows Updates, this was not a problem, so I wonder if it is a driver issue. Also, even with all of the Windows Updates installed, booting the partition in Fusion, the boot time is not a problem at all, which I find strange.
Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Is there a way I can check if XP is getting hung up on a driver?
24" iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06ghz 4gb
Snow Leopard 10.6.3
Windows XP Pro SP3
Thanks,
Sean
Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Is there a way I can check if XP is getting hung up on a driver?
24" iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06ghz 4gb
Snow Leopard 10.6.3
Windows XP Pro SP3
Thanks,
Sean