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XP boot delay - WIA hangs on starting
I suddenly started experiencing a long delay when I boot my Win XP Pro (SP2) machine . It is a Dell 3.0 Gig cpu, 1 Gig memory machine. For the past year, up until two days ago, it booted in about 1.5 minutes. But the next and subsequent boots, it gets as far as showing the wallpaper then hangs there for about 4 minutes. At this point there is nothing on the screen except the wallpaper. At the end of the 4 minutes the taskbar and desktop icons appear and the boot process continues normally. Once it has completely booted everything appears to work normally. I examined the Event Log and found only one oddity. Early in the boot process --about the time the wallpaper appears -- the log records this: "The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service hung on starting." 4 minutes later the Event Log reports that the WIA service entered the running state. The only recent system modifying events that I can recall are: 1) I installed the latest JAVA runtime (JRE) from Sun. 2) Symantec's LiveUpdate installed an updated LiveUpdate program. I have Symantec's WinFax Pro and Norton Utilities, but not any of their anti-virus or firewall stuff. I have seen references where there were problems with WIA and certain scanner and printer drivers. However, my scanner and printer work fine after the computer finally boots. Aslo, I have not updated any of their drivers. Does anyone have a suggestions how I might solve my slow boot problem? - David Harper |
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Re: XP boot delay - WIA hangs on starting
Stop and disable the WIA service in Services.msc. Set the WIA service back to Automatic or Manual and start it before you use your scanner. Downside is you will have a boatload of Event Source: DCOM Event ID: 10005 errors in the Event Viewer. And I mean a boatload. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news:uU90nuvOFHA.2356@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl, David Harper <dharper@houston.rr.com> hunted and pecked: > I suddenly started experiencing a long delay when I boot my Win XP Pro > (SP2) machine . It is a Dell 3.0 Gig cpu, 1 Gig memory machine. > > For the past year, up until two days ago, it booted in about 1.5 minutes. > But the next and subsequent boots, it gets as far as showing the wallpaper > then hangs there for about 4 minutes. At this point there is nothing on > the screen except the wallpaper. At the end of the 4 minutes the taskbar > and desktop icons appear and the boot process continues normally. Once > it has completely booted everything appears to work normally. > > I examined the Event Log and found only one oddity. Early in the boot > process --about the time the wallpaper appears -- the log records this: > "The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service hung on starting." 4 > minutes later the Event Log reports that the WIA service entered the > running state. > > The only recent system modifying events that I can recall are: 1) I > installed the latest JAVA runtime (JRE) from Sun. 2) Symantec's > LiveUpdate installed an updated LiveUpdate program. I have Symantec's > WinFax Pro and Norton Utilities, but not any of their anti-virus or > firewall stuff. > > I have seen references where there were problems with WIA and certain > scanner and printer drivers. However, my scanner and printer work fine > after the computer finally boots. Aslo, I have not updated any of their > drivers. > > Does anyone have a suggestions how I might solve my slow boot problem? > > - David Harper |
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Re: XP boot delay - WIA hangs on starting
"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message news:uO1aL0vOFHA.2728@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... > Stop and disable the WIA service in Services.msc. > > Set the WIA service back to Automatic or Manual and start it before you > use > your scanner. > > Downside is you will have a boatload of Event Source: DCOM Event ID: > 10005 > errors in the Event Viewer. > > And I mean a boatload. Thanks for your reply. As I mentioned in my original post I am having no problems with my scanner or printer. My only problem is the long boot time. The Event Log shows that the WIA service eventually starts. This occurs about 4 minutes after the event message that says it hug on starting. I am still trying to solve this problem. - David Harper > In news:uU90nuvOFHA.2356@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl, > David Harper <dharper@houston.rr.com> hunted and pecked: >> I suddenly started experiencing a long delay when I boot my Win XP Pro >> (SP2) machine . It is a Dell 3.0 Gig cpu, 1 Gig memory machine. >> >> For the past year, up until two days ago, it booted in about 1.5 minutes. >> But the next and subsequent boots, it gets as far as showing the >> wallpaper >> then hangs there for about 4 minutes. At this point there is nothing on >> the screen except the wallpaper. At the end of the 4 minutes the taskbar >> and desktop icons appear and the boot process continues normally. Once >> it has completely booted everything appears to work normally. >> >> I examined the Event Log and found only one oddity. Early in the boot >> process --about the time the wallpaper appears -- the log records this: >> "The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service hung on starting." 4 >> minutes later the Event Log reports that the WIA service entered the >> running state. >> >> The only recent system modifying events that I can recall are: 1) I >> installed the latest JAVA runtime (JRE) from Sun. 2) Symantec's >> LiveUpdate installed an updated LiveUpdate program. I have Symantec's >> WinFax Pro and Norton Utilities, but not any of their anti-virus or >> firewall stuff. >> >> I have seen references where there were problems with WIA and certain >> scanner and printer drivers. However, my scanner and printer work fine >> after the computer finally boots. Aslo, I have not updated any of their >> drivers. >> >> Does anyone have a suggestions how I might solve my slow boot problem? >> >> - David Harper > |
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Re: XP boot delay - WIA hangs on starting
Have fun solving it. :-) -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news:oG95e.38731$ij5.15276@tornado.texas.rr.com, David Harper <dharper@houston.rr.com> hunted and pecked: > "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message > news:uO1aL0vOFHA.2728@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... >> Stop and disable the WIA service in Services.msc. >> >> Set the WIA service back to Automatic or Manual and start it before you >> use >> your scanner. >> >> Downside is you will have a boatload of Event Source: DCOM Event ID: >> 10005 >> errors in the Event Viewer. >> >> And I mean a boatload. > > Thanks for your reply. As I mentioned in my original post I am having no > problems with my scanner or printer. My only problem is the long boot > time. The Event Log shows that the WIA service eventually starts. This > occurs about 4 minutes after the event message that says it hug on > starting. > > I am still trying to solve this problem. > > - David Harper > >> In news:uU90nuvOFHA.2356@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl, >> David Harper <dharper@houston.rr.com> hunted and pecked: >>> I suddenly started experiencing a long delay when I boot my Win XP Pro >>> (SP2) machine . It is a Dell 3.0 Gig cpu, 1 Gig memory machine. >>> >>> For the past year, up until two days ago, it booted in about 1.5 >>> minutes. But the next and subsequent boots, it gets as far as showing >>> the wallpaper >>> then hangs there for about 4 minutes. At this point there is nothing on >>> the screen except the wallpaper. At the end of the 4 minutes the >>> taskbar and desktop icons appear and the boot process continues >>> normally. Once it has completely booted everything appears to work >>> normally. >>> >>> I examined the Event Log and found only one oddity. Early in the boot >>> process --about the time the wallpaper appears -- the log records this: >>> "The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service hung on starting." 4 >>> minutes later the Event Log reports that the WIA service entered the >>> running state. >>> >>> The only recent system modifying events that I can recall are: 1) I >>> installed the latest JAVA runtime (JRE) from Sun. 2) Symantec's >>> LiveUpdate installed an updated LiveUpdate program. I have Symantec's >>> WinFax Pro and Norton Utilities, but not any of their anti-virus or >>> firewall stuff. >>> >>> I have seen references where there were problems with WIA and certain >>> scanner and printer drivers. However, my scanner and printer work fine >>> after the computer finally boots. Aslo, I have not updated any of their >>> drivers. >>> >>> Does anyone have a suggestions how I might solve my slow boot problem? >>> >>> - David Harper |
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Re: XP boot delay - WIA hangs on starting Set WIA to manual in the administrator services... and all will be well :) -- jazzman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jazzman's Profile: http://www.iamnotageek.com/member.php?userid=12038 View this thread: http://www.iamnotageek.com/showthread.php?t=1819058385 |
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Re: XP boot delay - WIA hangs on starting
"jazzman" <jazzman.1o04ez@no-mx.forums.iamnotageek.com> wrote in message news:jazzman.1o04ez@no-mx.forums.iamnotageek.com... > > Set WIA to manual in the administrator services... and all will be well > :) My Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) was set to "Automatic". I changed it to "Manual" and rebooted. Still got the 4 minute delay, but this time WIA did not show up in the Event Log with an error. However.... I frequently use Internet Explorer's Address History down arrow to go to recently visited sites. The history list of URLs now take over 2 minutes to drop down. This only happens the first time I try it. Subsequent times I try it, either in the same browser window, or a different one, it drops downs instantly, as usual. This was the result of changing WIA from "Automatic". To "Manual"! Changing it back to "Automatic" fixed the 2 minute delay in dropping down Explorer's Address History. How bizarre. I still have a 4 minute boot. - David |
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