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Setup- But what?

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Mikey

Flightless Bird
The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box flashes by. It
goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".

Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?

Thanks, Mike
 
S

Shenan Stanley

Flightless Bird
Mikey wrote:
> The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog
> box flashes by. It goes so quickly I can't read anything except
> "Setup".
> Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?
>
> Thanks, Mike


Get a list of what starts up when you startup the computer/logon.

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Don Phillipson

Flightless Bird
"Mikey" <nf4l@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:i465t5$hi2$1@news.eternal-september.org...

> The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box

flashes by. It
> goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".


What happens when you key PAUSE?
(Duration of boot menus, if this is what you have, is set
in C:/BOOT.INI by these next two lines
[boot loader]
timeout=30
(which means 30 seconds on screen.)

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
 
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Paul

Flightless Bird
Mikey wrote:
> The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box
> flashes by. It goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?
>
> Thanks, Mike


Try Autoruns. It lists a lot of different sources of things
that run automatically at startup. For example, I have a mixer
panel from an old sound card, that shouldn't be loading, and
by using the tick box next to that entry ("mixer.exe"), I can
turn it off.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Paul
 
M

Mikey

Flightless Bird
On 8/14/2010 10:09 AM, Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Mikey wrote:
>> The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog
>> box flashes by. It goes so quickly I can't read anything except
>> "Setup".
>> Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?
>>
>> Thanks, Mike

>
> Get a list of what starts up when you startup the computer/logon.
>


I drove thru the entries in AutorunS, and nothing leapt out at me.
Glad to see you here. I wasn't sure anybody would survive the MS group shutdown. ;-o
 
M

Mikey

Flightless Bird
On 8/14/2010 12:42 PM, Don Phillipson wrote:
> "Mikey"<nf4l@pobox.com> wrote in message
> news:i465t5$hi2$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>> The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box

> flashes by. It
>> goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".

>
> What happens when you key PAUSE?
> (Duration of boot menus, if this is what you have, is set
> in C:/BOOT.INI by these next two lines
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> (which means 30 seconds on screen.)
>


Pause has no effect. I'm talking about somewhere after my AV starts, and the network
is active, so it's well after the desktop is painted.
 
M

Mikey

Flightless Bird
On 8/14/2010 1:05 PM, Paul wrote:
> Mikey wrote:
>> The last several times I've booted, after XP Pro starts, a dialog box flashes by.
>> It goes so quickly I can't read anything except "Setup".
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to determine what this is?
>>
>> Thanks, Mike

>
> Try Autoruns. It lists a lot of different sources of things
> that run automatically at startup. For example, I have a mixer
> panel from an old sound card, that shouldn't be loading, and
> by using the tick box next to that entry ("mixer.exe"), I can
> turn it off.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
>
> Paul


Yeah, I looked at AutorunS. Nothing looked out of whack there.
 
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