I had been running VS 2003 for a couple months and everything was
fine, but then...all of a sudden, everything stopped working. I read
all the microsoft KB Help files and still could not get VS 2003 to
work right. When it started up it would load very very slowly.

Finally after 3 days of googling for answers beyond the microsoft site
I gave up and tried to do a clean install. I installed xp, office
2003, and the windows updates. Everything was running great.

Ok, all is well.

I install VS2003 again, and everything goes well. No error messages,
or anything.... When I launch studio the first time it took 8 minutes
for it to start! I'm on a clean 20 gig partition and everything.
Dream install.... Nothing has changed on my system at all....

Pentium 2.8, Asus Motherboard, ATI 9700 AIW PRO....

And I have already followed these directions.... Help!

Peter,

Use msconfig.exe to troubleshoot the launch.

Start > Run and type msconfig and then click Ok
Select the Services Tab
Disable All Services
Click Ok and Reboot
Test

Start > Run and type msconfig and then click Ok
Select the Services Tab
Enable all Services
Hide All Microsoft Services
Disable All 3rd Party Services
Click Ok and Reboot
Test

Go through that process until you get a satisfactory boot. You could also
generate a filemon and regmon log. (http://www.sysinternals.com) and see if
you can figure out what is happening from there.

I will be glad to look at the logs if you want to send them to me

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay
Microsoft Corp.
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