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Slow Bootup
I am running Widows 2000 Sp4 and recently the bootup has slowed to a crawl displaying "Applying Security Policy" for over 15 minutes. It then comes up and operates normally. I thought that it might be my anti-virus software (McAfee) so I temporarily disabled it but that didn't help. I looked at the Run, Run Once registry entries which are minimal and nothing abnormal there. Nothing in my Startup folder either. I don't see any unusuall services running. What can I look at next? OI have run Virus scans, adware scans, spyware scans and a rootkit detector - nothing shows up.
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I searched for "applying security policy" and found that it is a relatively common problem with Windows 2000. Apparently, the slow startup is due to errors when Windows updates "local and Active Directory-based Group Policy settings".
The most common diagnosis is a network problem so it would be no surprise that you have been unable to fix it with the steps you have taken. Did you make any network change just before the problem started?
Have a look yourself and see if any of the suggestions work for you.
The topic is from 2008, and I doubt if the guy is having the problem till now, or will notice it 3 years later :D.
FYI, most of these that haven't attracted a comment in say two years + I'm taking out without referencing in the forum unless they contain useful links or, as in this case, a topic title likely to draw search traffic.
MC, its better to delete such articles too, because they are from the old forum of old site. And unless there are helpful answers to solve the problem, getting to the page has no meaning. This article came on top because someone apart from Remah posted on it. The same guy posted on two other similar old forum topics too, and the comments were show off, and nothing else. Better to delete these topics, since we are getting our traffic from other useful articles :).
Agreed, but since Remah has made a constructive comment here, I've left it in place to see what other responses this might generate before removing the page. If it remains dead, it can go :)
Agreed to that :).
Hi
You could read these: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/jonathant-spyware-removal-guide.htm
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/jonathant-cleanup-kit.htm
Maybe your computer is fragmented?
[Dead links updated]
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