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Slow Boot Times

sacog

We are evaluating the Sophos Anti-virus software in our company.  So far, things have been running fairly smoothly.  Good scan times that don't impact computer usage.  Good virus detection.

The problem we are running in to is that after installing the End Point Protection on our test workstations, they now take two to three times as long to start up (even compared to our current anti-virus product).  Time to get to the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen is about normal.  After pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, there is about a 15 - 30 second delay (depending on the workstation) before I can enter my login credentials.  Then, after entering the login credentials, there is another 30 second to up to 3 minute delay to bring the workstation to a working state (depending on the workstation again).

Has anyone else experienced these slow boot up times?

Has anyone found anything that can be done to help speed this up?

thanks,

david

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    We're experiencing something pretty similar since we reimaged most of our PCs with Windows 7. This happens very intermittently, but after a successful login, users have expereinced drives not mapping for 2-5 minutes, IE, browsing their computer, oropening documents not responding, and explorer crashing. If the leave their PCs along for a few minutes after login, everything works fine. 

    I've opened a case with Microsoft, and the first thing they did was disable all non-Microsoft startup programs and services in MSCONFIG. I've slowly re-enabled services and programs, and it seems like it's either the auto-update program/service or the Antivirus service that are causing this. With these disabled from startup, everything works very smoothly.

    Microsoft also told me that they just worked with another customer that had this same issue. That's not really what I wanted to hear... I can't say I want to disable autoupdate and the antivirus services at startup.

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    We're experiencing something pretty similar since we reimaged most of our PCs with Windows 7. This happens very intermittently, but after a successful login, users have expereinced drives not mapping for 2-5 minutes, IE, browsing their computer, oropening documents not responding, and explorer crashing. If the leave their PCs along for a few minutes after login, everything works fine. 

    I've opened a case with Microsoft, and the first thing they did was disable all non-Microsoft startup programs and services in MSCONFIG. I've slowly re-enabled services and programs, and it seems like it's either the auto-update program/service or the Antivirus service that are causing this. With these disabled from startup, everything works very smoothly.

    Microsoft also told me that they just worked with another customer that had this same issue. That's not really what I wanted to hear... I can't say I want to disable autoupdate and the antivirus services at startup.

    :34427
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