It should update during that time! Check in Event Viewer to see if there is
anything being recorded during that period... Start/Orb, type Event, click
on Event Viewer.

Also in task manager sort the rows by clicking on the top of the cpu or disk
columns to see the highest activity...

"dpwilli" wrote in message
...
Mac,
Thanks for the suggestion. I have looked at CPU utilization, but the task
manager isn't updating during this time so all running processes are
showing
reasonable ( 10 - 20 % utilization). I haven't tried the disk activity
column though. I'll give that a try and post the results. Thanks for the
suggestion, and keep 'em coming.

dpwill

"Mac" wrote:

Look in task manager to see which processes are consuming cpu during this
period, and add columns for disk activity to see which processes are
thrashing the drives. Then you will be one step closer to understanding
what
is going on...

"dpwilli" wrote in message
...
My wife recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5100 Notebook for her work
which
came preinstalled with Vista Home Premium. At first everything seemed
fine
with it, then after a few weeks she started noticing that after
startup,
vista was virtually unresponsive for about 10-15 minutes. After that
time
everything ran fine. There has been only one application installed on
the
computer, but is not running at system startup and is not launched
immediately after startup, so I don't think it could be causing the
problem.

System Specs:
Acer Aspire 5100 Notebook
Preinstalled Vista Home Priemium
1GB RAM
80 GB HD
Radeon ATI Xpress 1100 Graphics Card

Steps taken:
My first thought was that it needed more RAM. Of the original gig, 1/3
of
it was being reserved for video memory. It had two 512mb sodimms in
it,
so I
removed one and added an additional gig, bringing me to 1.5 gigs of
RAM.

RESULT: Did not notice any significant improvement as a aresult.

I then ran many of the Vista performance utilities to see if the OS was
detecting any major problems and there were none.

Next, I ran msconfig and disabled the majority of the startup
applications
as well as a handful of services which I knew were not needed. Still
no
improvement.

I disabled Aero and turned off all of the windows visual effects. No
improvement.

Task manager doesn't show any processes utilizing excesive amounts of
processor time or memory. Although, I have noticed that the Task
Manager
tends to freeze up durning this initial post-boot lag time. So it
could
be
that it's just not getting updated.

I'm going to try and start it in safe mode to see if that helps. But
if
anyone has any suggestions, or knows of any specific services or
startup
apps
that could be causing this, please let me know.

Thanks,

dpwilli