I know its an age old problem, but this is baffling me.My computers clean, defragged and running fine. But booting takes forever.In safe Mode it starts fine, the windows bar only goes across 3 times before log on page. But normally the bar goes across 25 times before continuing. In the boot log the prefetchbootinit seems to be taking about 40 secs, and causing the problem. I only have 5 startup programs which have been disabled, but problem persists. Ive cleaned out the prefetch folder, still a problem.What i have noticed though, is that the readyboot folder in the prefetch folder is always empty. Apparently this is needed to speed up the boot.Could this be the problem? and does anyone know if the readyboot folder should be empty?Thanx in advance.


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can you state out your programs which are running during startup(by
using msconfig-just type 'msconfig' at run)

the possibly causes of this problem:
a) driver problem
b) program problem
c) unnecessary service

you can try out this way:
a) disable all the start up programs UNLESS you feel that they are
extremely needed for you
b) disable all third party service(listed out in msconfig)

about the readyboot folder, i have some file in it with .fx extension

good luck


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kzzz

Hello Kzzz,

The items listed here may help you speed up your boot time.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70563-boot-up.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

kzzz;933171 Wrote:
can you state out your programs which are running during startup(by
using msconfig-just type 'msconfig' at run)

the possibly causes of this problem:
a) driver problem
b) program problem
c) unnecessary service

you can try out this way:
a) disable all the start up programs UNLESS you feel that they are
extremely needed for you
b) disable all third party service(listed out in msconfig)

about the readyboot folder, i have some file in it with .fx extension

good luck

vistanovice;933071 Wrote:
I know its an age old problem, but this is baffling me.My computers
clean, defragged and running fine. But booting takes forever.In safe
Mode it starts fine, the windows bar only goes across 3 times before log
on page. But normally the bar goes across 25 times before continuing. In
the boot log the prefetchbootinit seems to be taking about 40 secs, and
causing the problem. I only have 5 startup programs which have been
disabled, but problem persists. Ive cleaned out the prefetch folder,
still a problem.What i have noticed though, is that the readyboot folder
in the prefetch folder is always empty. Apparently this is needed to
speed up the boot.Could this be the problem? and does anyone know if the
readyboot folder should be empty?Thanx in advance.


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Hello,
Faster Laptop boot up times.
Not sure if this helps anyone but I have found that changing the
service WLAN Autoconfig to automatic, Then disabling, in my case Dell
WLan tray service service helped cut boot times from 50 seconds to 40
secs. My comp. is 2.4 c2duo and 160gb 7200rpm. 4gb .and running vista
ultimate x64. I have set alot of other 'background' services to delayed
start which has brought the time down to 33 seconds.
Hope this works as it did for me.
G


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gggttdd

Booting in safe mode loads minimal drivers. Longer progress bar time in
normal mode indicates to me that Windows is have a hard time loading a
driver that is not loaded in safe mode. I would first start with making
sure all of my hardware drivers are updated.


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