bootvis blues

[alex666]

Hi:

Doing a clean install of winXP Home on 80g unpartitioned Maxtor hdd. As part of trying to create a really lean and mean setup, I downloaded the most recent version of bootvis. Ran a trace, it took a few minutes, no problems. When I try to optimize, however, the system reboots into XP just fine, I get the "bootvis is running" message with no problem, and then I get that initial screen with the one green check mark that says "system is optimizing". The problem is that it doesn't move from that screen, almost like it's frozen at that point. The longest I've waited is 75 minutes. I've run bootvis before, but always on a partitioned hdd with a partition no larger than 20 gig, and I don't recall it taking this long. Do I just need to wait it out, or should this be working faster? Only approx. 3.5 gig are filled up on the hdd, and it is defragged. Thanks all.

marty

[Mark Miller]

It absolutley should not take that long. I have 120gb drive and it took minutes to run through 3 times [Just to be sure] I really don't know what the problem may be accept the obvious of some program in the background not letting it finish.
Mark:confused:

[alex666]

Thanks Mark. I needed a point in reference. Upon reading your post, I then realized the silly error on my part. I had disabled some services to minimize what was being loaded upon boot, but I disabled some of the ones necessary for bootvis. They are as follows (per blackviper.com):

COM+ Event System
Event Log
Plug and Play
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Task Scheduler
Windows Management Instrumentation

As soon as I reenabled these, bootvis worked fine. Thanks again.

marty

[Mark Miller]

Hey Alex,
I gotta be honest with you. I'm not so smart but ever since I had a similar problem that Mjc straignted out, I always think of background programs when something isn't working the way it should.
Thank goodness for Mjc.
mark:)

[alex666]

concur