On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:43 PM, jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:
No Ed.
I see the
Stopping ......etc
live as I am booting!!!
Every time!!!

Ok, so it may be normal, but I can't believe it is "right". It just doesn't make sense...
 

I still do not quite get what problem the OP is having.
Slowness in and of itself is not necessarily a technical problem.

If the OP has a slow cpu old computer, with (perhaps) a
small amount of RAM and a with (perhaps) slow (4200RPM)
disk drive, then it is going to take a while to finish initializing
all the daemons and hardware until the UI can respond to
user. Also, having a small amount of swap or no swap space
could make things a lot worse :), some apps might not even
start, let alone run.
I hope the OP tells us more about his HW specs and swap size.

It's older, but not that old... Dual core intel @ 2GHz, 3GB DDR2 ram. The hard drive activity stops after the initial login so I don't think that's a factor. Not sure about swap but it's the default from a Live Workstation install.

I'm not actually sure what's going on.... After login I get a dark textured screen with mouse cursor only. After I wake the screen up after going into dpms I get the gnome-shell "lock screen" and after unlocking I get a full desktop. It's really weird like gnome-shell is loading but not showing itself until after a lock/unlock cycle.

Richard