question about slow boot time in acer aspire 6930 G?

I have recently bought laptop acer aspire 6930 g with following features
Processor intel core 2 duo t6400 2ghz 2mb cash
Ram 4gb ddr2
Hard disk 1000gb ( 2 hard each one 500gb) and preloaded vista home premium and nividia 9600m gt 1gb ddr2
And i notice that my laptop take too long boot time in compare with my friend laptop Dell inspiron 1525 with 1.6 pantium dual core processor and 2gb ddr2 ram and 160 gb hard disk and windows vista ultimate..so is there something wrong with my laptop and how can i speed up boot time and do u think that i can play games like crysis and call of duty 4 and GTA 4 on it?

Thanks for help

 

Usually the slow start time is because there are many programs that have been configured to automatically start up when you turn on your laptop (wihtout of course asking you for your permission). This is very annoying as it increases the load up time massively and then making you think your laptop is slow. One way doing it is to remove all the acer software (and any other bloatware you have and you don't use) that are installed in your laptop. Also if you go Windows orb > run > and type msconfig and then press enter. A window will pop up and in the start up tab you can disable programs that are loaded in the start up process. Do you know how many processes are running while your pc is idle? For instance my processes as I type now are 42 (only firefox is opened). My start up time is 52''-60''. I guess you probably have around 72-76 processes running. Check how many processes your friend has as well.
You can check the subforum for notebook dummy guides or the windows subforum for more specific info.

 

thanks nklive for answer but sometimes after apperance of windows loading bar and before actual entery to Windows that laptop screen become black for long time then windows log on screen appear so are two hard disks cause this slow boot time before actual entery to windows..thanks again for help.

 

Hi, with vista turn off the external monitor seek, if you don't use a projector, by this method: To do so, Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Task Schedular. Expand "Task Scheduler Library" then expand "Microsoft", then expand "Windows" and finally click "MobilePC". You will see a task called "TMM". Rt-Click on it, and select "Disable".

The other thing to realise is that with a 'new' installation of Vista it has to learn what programs are most often used and place them into superfetch..
Chris

 

What chriscatt said is another good advice if you have the slow down before you actuallty enter windows desktop screen. The two hard drive shouldn't be a problem as (I guess) you are using one for the OS and the other for the DATA. There are a couple of guides as I said before in the other subforum and you will find many good tips and tricks there.
As for your other questions, you should definetely be able to play COD 4 or 5 in high settings. For the GTA4 probably low-medium settings as it is very demanding.

 

thank u very much Chriscatt and nklive and I will try your good advices.

 

'Thanks to Les and his personal testers for these tweaks

"Here are the ones i've found to have a great gain in startup/shutdown + performance boost."

1. Disable TMM

This tweak is responsible for about a 3-5 second delay and blank screen flash when you start Vista. It searches for external monitors but is unnecessary.

If you are not using an external monitor, or don't switch back and forth always then turn TMM off. This is responsible for a 3-5 second pause and blank flash you get when turning your computer on.

Here's how to fix that annoying black flicker on boot:

Go start/control panel/administrative options/task scheduler.
On the left-hand side, click "Task Scheduler Local" (you should already be there, but just in case).
Expand "Task Scheduler Library," then "Microsoft," then "Windows," then click "MobilePC."
Up top, you'll see a task called "TMM." Click it, and on the right-hand side, click "Disable."
You're done!
Start time reduced and blank flash gone!!!!


"The one below works very well but do take note that changes to the registry can damage your computer! (Do backups etc etc)"

3. Cut Shut Down Time In Half!!

I need to precede this with a warning that we are going to advance ourselves a bit here by moving into editing our registry. It means that its absolutely necessary to follow the exact steps as a wrong entry or deletion my cause a reinstall of Vista at worst.

Before we start, by default, there is a 20 second delay in shutdown of Vista, a process that vista has set in order to allow software to shutdown correctly. You can adjust this to a much shorter time, thus significantly reducing the total time it takes to shutdown your computer.

Ready? Ok lets go..

1. Press the Start Orb (bottom left and then go into the Run command (remember Windows key + R).
2. Type 'Regedit' (without the quotes) and hit enter.
3. As the Registry File is so large, Im going to ask you to go top right and maximize this to full screen...and follow me.
4. Click the little triangle to the left of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM/ CurrentControlSet/ Control.
5. Click on the "Control" Folder. Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout" Right click on it and select Modify. The default value is 20000. Setting it to a lower 4 digit value, say 5000
6. Simply exit when done.

The 20000 signifies a 20 second delay wheres 5000 signifies a 5 second delay. I cut 20 seconds off my shutdown time by changing this as it suggests so don't try and figure out exact time reduction by numbers...just play with it bit by bit.

You may want to remain at the 5000 mark as Vista does need time to shut software down. If this is not enough, come back and increase the size.

Disable UAC and VISTA Indexing helps.

Also checking some advanced HDD options can have a nice gain.

10. Turn on Write Caching for Better SATA Disk Performance!!!!

This tweak speeds up the performance of your hard disk by enabling write caching. There is a danger to this, if you have no backup power supply, as a loss of power would result in loss of any information within the cache at the time of the outage. So.... make sure to continually backup your files in data programs such as Word, Excel, and so on...

To enable write caching:

1. Press Vista Orb/Computer/right click on 'C'/Properties;
2. Click on Hardware and double click on your hard drive;
3. Go to Policies and check 'Enable Write caching on the Disk'
4. You can go one step further by checking 'Enable Advanced performance' but pay attention to the underlying warning.

This option isn't available to all. Newer systems are automatically set to run in AHCI mode through the BIOS and utilize a program called the 'Intel Matrix Storage Manager'. Together, these already enably higher performance of your system and prevent you from 'Enhancing Write Caching' on your own. You may be able to check it off but when you exit and return, its unchecked again. Don't panic!!! Thats just the way it presently works.

I would also add, Run an antivirus every week/month, CCleaner or Auslogics Registry Defragger and shutdown any unneccery processes during start up.

You will notice a nice difference in this tutorial, even on an old battered vista pc '


If you follow this guide, you should notice a huge performance gain as well as a huge boot up boost!


Cata

 

wow ..these advices are also very good Catacylsm,I am very grateful to u

 

No problem man, the impact on performance should prove useful.