bootskin makes startup longer?

**pnyboy27** · 02-06-2008, 03:38 AM

i just installed bootskin on my carpc, and ever since i installed it, its making my startup screen take forever there. it takes like a nice 2 minutes at that screen. i then just uninstalled it, but its still taking forever and i dont know why. any help?

**jonessc** · 02-09-2008, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by pnyboy27

i just installed bootskin on my carpc, and ever since i installed it, its making my startup screen take forever there. it takes like a nice 2 minutes at that screen. i then just uninstalled it, but its still taking forever and i dont know why. any help?

It also caused my machine to blue screen at startup just as the logo was displayed, use msconfig and see if theres any trace of it starting up, from my understanding it loads well before windows starts to intercept the logo and replace it with your setting.

**DarquePervert** · 02-10-2008, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by pnyboy27

i just installed bootskin on my carpc, and ever since i installed it, its making my startup screen take forever there. it takes like a nice 2 minutes at that screen. i then just uninstalled it, but its still taking forever and i dont know why. any help?

Something that Windoze is trying to render (a screen somewhere along the line) is hosed.
You can try re-creating a user profile that will reset display settings back to default...

Your experience (and other similar reports) are why I eschew Windoze customizers like Bootscreens or WindowBlinds.

**pnyboy27** · 02-24-2008, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by jonessc

It also caused my machine to blue screen at startup just as the logo was displayed, use msconfig and see if theres any trace of it starting up, from my understanding it loads well before windows starts to intercept the logo and replace it with your setting.

what do you look for in the msconfig?

**pnyboy27** · 02-24-2008, 03:57 AM

Originally Posted by DarquePervert

Something that Windoze is trying to render (a screen somewhere along the line) is hosed.
You can try re-creating a user profile that will reset display settings back to default...

Your experience (and other similar reports) are why I eschew Windoze customizers like Bootscreens or WindowBlinds.

what do you mean by re-creating a user profile? like create another user name? ill try that if i cant find anything in my msconfig..and i hope that works. because i hate how it takes like 2-3 minutes to boot up at the windows logo

**2k1Toaster** · 02-24-2008, 04:30 AM

system restore?

**jonessc** · 02-24-2008, 01:01 PM

A new user account will generally make settings all to there defaults, providing you use that same acccount.

If you read the optimisation section, there is another way called minlogon, which will force everything back to default, cos it logs on with the system account, and will dramaticly improve your boot time, once you cleared the windows logo...

In MSconfig there should be an entry with something like /stardock/boot skin, tho if uninstalled it may have just left some registry data that may not appear in there

**pnyboy27** · 02-24-2008, 10:48 PM

where would the registry data be found? and how would i delete that? but ill try that other account thing..thanks!

**jonessc** · 02-25-2008, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by pnyboy27

where would the registry data be found? and how would i delete that? but ill try that other account thing..thanks!

search for 'stardock' thats where most of it goes, use the regedit and search that way

**pnyboy27** · 03-04-2008, 12:59 AM

okay..so i tried searching for all the stardock files and i deleted them all. startup still took forever..then i created another account, to see if it would change or fix my problem...still nothing. it still took forever. any other ideas? besides system restore? since i installed then uninstalled that stardock program a long time ago.