Thanks, no but I have thought about it. The only problem is I only have the
Acer restore CD and not a clean Vista install CD so if it was something from
Acer, I wouldn't gain anything with a reinstall. I've just been trying to
clean up afterwards.

Pete

"Peter Dickason" wrote in message
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Thanks, no but I have thought about it. The only problem is I only have
the Acer restore CD and not a clean Vista install CD so if it was
something from Acer, I wouldn't gain anything with a reinstall. I've just
been trying to clean up afterwards.

Pete



Please QUOTE the post you are replying to.

http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Thank you.

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-All you have to do is google vista and slow startup and you will see
that
this is a common issue. It's not my machine. It's been like this out
of
the box which is the frustrating part to spend so much money on a
system not
up to par. I was hoping to get some advise about speeding it up
instead of
statements that it's my hardware. I've already made sure drivers were
up to
date and that there were no other errors. I did finally find what
makes
Vista slow. The Windows search, superfetch and readyboost. After
disabling
all of those, my system starts up and is usable in minutes which is
more
acceptable. I can live with a search taking the time when I search and
have
apps take a little longer to load rather than have poor performance at
all
other times.


Pete-
Except that some systems have all of those enabled and still the machine
boots up in less than 10 minutes.. mine for instance..
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Mike Hall - MVP

I have a relatively modest desktop pc ( 2gb Ram ).

Vista Home Premium x64 starts up in less than 40 seconds.

If you're sure it's not a hardware problem - have you tried
reinstalling the o/s ?

SIW2Peter Dickason;931071 Wrote:
Thanks, no but I have thought about it. The only problem is I only have
the
Acer restore CD and not a clean Vista install CD so if it was something
from
Acer, I wouldn't gain anything with a reinstall. I've just been trying
to
clean up afterwards.

Pete

Hi Peter,

There may be something here that you haven't tried.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/13...boot-time.html

I suspect it may need than a tweak or two. Changing to x64 probably
won't help.

Suppose you've tried the obvious things like memtest, chckdisk and the
SFC command - this is a handy little tool

http://www.vistax64.com/software-too...heck-tool.html

Reinstall of the factory image may do the job, but yes you would be
cleaning it up - this may be useful for that

'Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Uninstall Software, Remove Programs, Solve
uninstall problems' (http://www.revouninstaller.com).

What is taking so long ? Is it the at the rolling green bars, or does
it take a long time to get to the Welcome screen, or is it the Welcome
screen itself that hangs for a long time ?

SIW2


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SIW2

All you have to do is google vista and slow startup and you will see that
this is a common issue.

Not to the extent you're getting it, it isn't.

It's not my machine.

Of course it is. Otherwise we'd all be suffering ten minute startups. Mine
starts in just under one minute. It's either your hardware, or something
wrong with the OS installation. But it definitely isn't a generic problem
with Vista.

It's been like this out of the box........

Well, QED. But seriously, I strongly recommend you take this up with the
supplier. You are quite right to say that it is completely unacceptable.
The more you mess with it yourself, the more excuses you are giving them to
argue.

I'm sorry if this isn't the answer you wanted, but really - it's the
vendor's problem.

SteveT

"Peter Dickason" wrote in message
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Yes I realize those A/V sotware's have evolved into a bunch of bloat which
is why I use Avast. But it's not that. In my first post I decared that I
have already tried turning of everything!

I used to like Trend myself but it has gone by way of Norton and has
become a hog as well.

Pete



I know this is getting off the thread, but Norton 2009 is lean and
mean. All the bloat is gone. I'm using NIS 2009, and it only
uses one service and 3 small processes totalling 10MB of memory
usage. There are no more of those delays on startup, as NIS starts
almost instantly after the desktop appears. Most updates are now
done in 10 seconds. It is getting very good user reviews.

That's exactly what I was looking for. Some direction in figuring out what
the problem is. I'm a server man so I know my way around a computer but
Vista is new to me. I was hoping to get information what logs I can look at
since MS thinks Vista people arent capable of using Bootvis.

What is taking so long ? Is it the at the rolling green bars, or does
it take a long time to get to the Welcome screen, or is it the Welcome
screen itself that hangs for a long time ?

It takes a long time after it reaches the desktop. Up to 10 minutes of hard
drive thrashing during which time I can't do anything. And that's with no
startup items and all non-microsoft services disabled. I found that turning
off search and a couple of other non-essential services calmed it down. I'm
also looking at diskeeper so I'll see what that that does for me.

Thanks again for the help.

Pete

Or you can try start up in safe mode, see whether the problem exist. If
it is solved, then there must be something wrong with your driver.


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kzzz

Hmmm...Maybe I'll take another look at NIS.