Wow, it only took twenty seven login attempts--

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to get in.

charlie

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Over An Hour To Start At All

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I've been having a long term issue, sometimes taking more than an hour to start the computer. I had assumed it to be Micro Soft or the greater internet.

Now all that is suddenly gone and my computer is taking only a minute or two to start. ????????

Gwen

Sorry to dissappoint you

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The appearance of the Windows Login screen is not a sign that it has started up. There is a whole lot still going on in the background. Search Indexing is just one of the things that are done behind the scenes. Microsoft changed it all with Win 8, or AFAIK.

Just being able to login is one of the measures that Journalists/hacks use to measure startup performance (they don't know any better I'm afraid) so the sooner the login screen is presented the better.

Samantha

Weird Log in Behavior

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Downstairs there are 6 computers for residents to use, and they start right up in less than 30 seconds. Back on the 4th floor mine is still plodding along. Xfinity (a division of Comcast) only charges me $9.95 USD, a month, so it may be that they allow only so much 'through put' before they restrict it. I plan to call them next week to see if there is another plan that costs more that will be better.

I had been thinking that the problem was my aging computer, (8 years or more). It is a desk top, big screen (34"), with a Core i5 chipset. I have been planning to replace it this summer if I can with the modern version that has a core i7 chipset and more memory and 'stuff'. I am not a computer geek so I may be speaking out of turn. This desk top all in one is not like a tower, and does not lend its self to do it your self tinkering.

All this assumes that my health will still be good enough to do all this.

Gwen

Yikes!!

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Way more than I'd ever get to ...

If I was seeing 'invalid name or password' then I'd resort to my {mumble} records, and failing again on password, go the 'forgot name or password' route ...

But after 5-6 'password is not the problem' tries - it's time to reset everything at my end. I do a shutdown to 'cold' (no, not even restart - cold), wait 10+ seconds and reboot. Then, without starting anything else, I try again.
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A lot of computers, for a lot of reasons, accumulate 'crud' in main memory. The cold boot gives everything a clean start.

The BCTS computers/servers can be similar. That's when the Admin people have to do their mystic incantation of "Clear Cache". That clears =a lot= of problems.

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