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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
This is not normal, if you are sure there is no virus/spyware take it back
to where it came from & let them fix or replace it. "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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
If none of the suggestions you've received pan out check your security
programs. Some antivirus and antispyware programs do a scan on startup. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
Ok, so what is considered normal for Disk I/O Reads & writes?
I've got my anti-virus software doing 17,000,000 I/O Read Bytes. Windows Explorer is doing 3,000,000 read bytes, but has 17,000,000 'I/O Other Bytes'. Do any of those seem excessive? CPU Utilization remains normal and physical memory is steady around 26%. Still having the same issue. 10 minutes or so nothing will run, then all of a sudden everything is fine. No issues listed under performance issues. By the way, this is a 64 bit machine. Any reason that could be causing a problem? "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, dpwilli. Mac's suggestions are right on! We often hear complaints that Vista is slow at first, but then gets better after a few days, as the Indexing Service completes the initial Index. To see if this might be the problem, click Control Panel | Indexing Options and see if it says "Indexing complete", or that it is "reduced due to user activity", or similar language. Indexing is SUPPOSED to work in the background and be almost unnoticed - and it does, AFTER it finishes building the initial Index. Of course, it has to get to work again if we add a lot of new content to the hard drive, such as a lot of new emails or newsgroup messages, or importing a lot of files, especially text files, that need to be indexed. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
Hi, dpwilli.
Ok, so what is considered normal for Disk I/O Reads & writes? I have no idea. :( I've never had any need to observe or investigate these stats. 10 minutes or so nothing will run, then all of a sudden everything is fine. The first thing that comes to mind is heat. Some piece of hardware inside the case shrinks when cool and no longer functions properly. After power-on, it takes 10 minutes for it to come up to operating temperature, or to expand enough to make or firm up a critical connection. The hard drive cables would be prime suspects. Have you discussed this with Acer, or the vendor who sold you the notebook? Is it too late for a replacement under warranty? I probably can't help with this problem, dpwilli. Please post back when you get it figured out and let us know. Good luck! RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "dpwilli" wrote in message ... Ok, so what is considered normal for Disk I/O Reads & writes? I've got my anti-virus software doing 17,000,000 I/O Read Bytes. Windows Explorer is doing 3,000,000 read bytes, but has 17,000,000 'I/O Other Bytes'. Do any of those seem excessive? CPU Utilization remains normal and physical memory is steady around 26%. Still having the same issue. 10 minutes or so nothing will run, then all of a sudden everything is fine. No issues listed under performance issues. By the way, this is a 64 bit machine. Any reason that could be causing a problem? "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, dpwilli. Mac's suggestions are right on! We often hear complaints that Vista is slow at first, but then gets better after a few days, as the Indexing Service completes the initial Index. To see if this might be the problem, click Control Panel | Indexing Options and see if it says "Indexing complete", or that it is "reduced due to user activity", or similar language. Indexing is SUPPOSED to work in the background and be almost unnoticed - and it does, AFTER it finishes building the initial Index. Of course, it has to get to work again if we add a lot of new content to the hard drive, such as a lot of new emails or newsgroup messages, or importing a lot of files, especially text files, that need to be indexed. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "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 |
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Vista VERY slow for 10 minutes after startup.
Hi. i have the same problem. My machine Ram 4 gb Video Nvidia geforce 8800 GTx Cpu intel Core2 Quad 2.66 Board MSI P6n Sli Platinun in vista ultima 32 bit the boot is perfect time, but when i upgrade to 64 bit, is a very slow boot ( about 7 minutes), i have a teory about the drivers of the board. but also is slow when i run vista 64, is dirvers problem ? |