Vista Pause after Welcome Screen

My HP pavilion laptop has developed a pause after I sign in to the Welcome
screen. After I input my password, and hit enter, a 30 second pause occurs.

The rest of the boot sequence seems to zip along quite nicely.

Could this be due to my anti-virus program I recently installed (Shaw Secure
which is related to F Secure)? Seems to be the only new thing I can think
of....oh wait.....I also installed a network printer on a print server too.

Thanks for any tidbits of help
Jim

Jim in Canada;1153912 Wrote:
> My HP pavilion laptop has developed a pause after I sign in to th
> Welcom
> screen. After I input my password, and hit enter, a 30 second paus
> occurs
>
> The rest of the boot sequence seems to zip along quite nicely
>
> Could this be due to my anti-virus program I recently installed (Sha
> Secur
> which is related to F Secure)? Seems to be the only new thing I ca
> thin
> of....oh wait.....I also installed a network printer on a print serve
> too
>
> Thanks for any tidbits of help :
> Ji

Sounds like you might have a lot of programs set to run and start-up

Lets go ahead and check that. Go to start search > type *msconfig *
hit enter > accept the UAC Prompt > go to the *Startup* tab at the *top
of the window > take a screen shot with snipping tool then post it here

Snipping tool: start search > type* snip* > choose the snipping tool
take a picture of the msconfig window and upload it here :

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CrucialHoax

Hi,

I've seen a similar notable pause after updating nvidia video drivers on
this series of laptops. The update corrects problems with the "in the box"
drivers, but causes these initialization delays. If you use 'switch user'
rather than logging off (assuming you use sleep mode and don't power off
fully), the delay does not occur since the driver remains initialized.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Jim in Canada" <> wrote in message
news:21Sym.319649$...
> My HP pavilion laptop has developed a pause after I sign in to the Welcome
> screen. After I input my password, and hit enter, a 30 second pause
> occurs.
>
> The rest of the boot sequence seems to zip along quite nicely.
>
> Could this be due to my anti-virus program I recently installed (Shaw
> Secure which is related to F Secure)? Seems to be the only new thing I can
> think of....oh wait.....I also installed a network printer on a print
> server too.
>
> Thanks for any tidbits of help
> Jim

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:19:52 -0600, "Jim in Canada" <>
wrote:

>My HP pavilion laptop has developed a pause after I sign in to the Welcome
>screen. After I input my password, and hit enter, a 30 second pause occurs.
>
>The rest of the boot sequence seems to zip along quite nicely.
>
>Could this be due to my anti-virus program I recently installed (Shaw Secure
>which is related to F Secure)? Seems to be the only new thing I can think
>of....oh wait.....I also installed a network printer on a print server too.
>
>Thanks for any tidbits of help
>Jim

Boot scan ?

Jim;1154390 Wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:19:52 -0600, "Jim in Canada" <warnerjim@newsgroup
> wrote
> > > >
> > >My HP pavilion laptop has developed a pause after I sign in to th
> > Welcom
> > >screen. After I input my password, and hit enter, a 30 second paus
> > occurs
> >
> > >The rest of the boot sequence seems to zip along quite nicely
> >
> > >Could this be due to my anti-virus program I recently installed (Sha
> > Secur
> > >which is related to F Secure)? Seems to be the only new thing I ca
> > thin
> > >of....oh wait.....I also installed a network printer on a print serve
> > too
> >
> > >Thanks for any tidbits of help :
> > >Jim > > Boot scan

Still say start up programs :

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CrucialHoax

"Jim in Canada" <> wrote in message
news:21Sym.319649$...
> My HP pavilion laptop has developed a pause after I sign in to the Welcome
> screen. After I input my password, and hit enter, a 30 second pause
> occurs.
>
> The rest of the boot sequence seems to zip along quite nicely.
>
> Could this be due to my anti-virus program I recently installed (Shaw
> Secure which is related to F Secure)? Seems to be the only new thing I can
> think of....oh wait.....I also installed a network printer on a print
> server too.
>
> Thanks for any tidbits of help
> Jim

Does your network printer have a built-in flash card reader? If so,
the reader will be mapped as a network drive, and if you start Vista
with the printer turned off, it will try connecting until the time-out.
You can either make sure the printer is on before bootup, or
disconnect the network drive in Windows Explorer.