What is my Mac doing at Start UP

twister

twister

Howdy
Can anyone give me some input here. When I log into my computer it takes a while to complete 'something'. I don't know what though. I have a few things in my start up folder but those don't seem to be the problem. My computer chugs away and and opening any application takes 3 times as long to launch because it's thinking so much about 'something'. I want to figure out what it is but I don't know how. I've looked at the startup items in the system prefs but that doesn't help any. Is this just a startup thing? Maybe UNIX is slow to load something it has to start up? Or is there a way to speed it up?

Do i make sense? ;)
 
Did you unplug it from your network, just to see if it is network-related?
And in which part of your startup do you feel this slowing down?
 
I'll give that a try next time i restart. It happens after i log in, after the desktop and all it's glory shows up. The startup items start up and nothing else is visably doing anything but man is is thinking hard. So i just wait for ~30 seconds and it finishes.
 
Only 30 secs? If this is after your desktop loads, then it must be software that you have set for startup. You should be able to see what is loading in the Dock. You could go in to your Login Items pref pane and decide if you really need anything on that list to start automatically after login, and just delete unneeded items (you can always re-add anything you decide later to keep).
 
There is nothing happening in the doc, all the startup items are loaded and i don't know what's up. At school, the computers on the network work on log in. NO delay. I kind of want to know if something, like my HP drivers, are doing something without telling me.
 
Maybe, You could try leaving anything external disconnected, including the printer. Boot up, if the problem is the printer driver, then you should be back to normal, If no change, then I would go through some inintial troubleshooting steps (repair permissions, restart to single-user mode and run FSCK, whatever else you might do forother problems developing)
I just came out of a similar problem, but the delay was right at the beginning of bootup (somehow added 10 secs to time between first grey screen and the appearance of the 'spinning spokes') This has normally been about 5 secs, (I time this a lot for boredom when rebooting), and it almost never varies but then was 15 full seconds. The fix was reloading the 10.2.6 combo updater, which might be a possibility in your case
 
So i got rid of all statup items and had the same result on reboot. I even did fsck.

I'll try disconnecting my cd burner and the network cable, that's how my printer is hooked up, and we'll see.
 
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