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    Faster Vista Startup: KB941649

    Discussion in 'HP' started by tosh_76, Oct 26, 2007.

  1. tosh_76

    tosh_76 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey all,

    It's mentioned here and there, but Vista update KB941649 claims to speed up Vista startup, and it has worked dramatically for me across a few different systems.

    It doesn't seem to be included when you run Windows Update, so in case you haven't already installed it (5mb) here's the link:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649
     
    tosh_76, Oct 26, 2007
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  2. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Old news ,we already have thread for above update @ OS section
     
    bigspin, Oct 26, 2007
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  3. Fade To Black

    Fade To Black The Bad Ass

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    I don't really see the difference, but I'm sure others may feel different about the patch.
     
    Fade To Black, Oct 26, 2007
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  4. emedici

    emedici Notebook Consultant

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    I'm going to give it a try. I'll let you know how did it work for me.
     
    emedici, Oct 26, 2007
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  5. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    this slowed down my laptop
     
    timtravel42, Oct 26, 2007
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    emedici Notebook Consultant

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    A whole different story here. After installing and shut down my PC I booted up when first installed and noticed a great difference. In tthe Event Viewer my last Startup time was 218 seconds (3.63 minutes) and after the installation was 92 seconds (1.32 minutes), so it did worked for me :D.

    ...but I'll continue testing, if anything gets better or worse I'll let you know. ;)
     
    emedici, Oct 27, 2007
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  7. zfactor

    zfactor Mastershake

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    this update sucks. takes me system like a full minute of staring at a black screen before it even hits vista now..
     
    zfactor, Oct 27, 2007
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  8. Fade To Black

    Fade To Black The Bad Ass

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    Maybe it works differently for clean installs.
     
    Fade To Black, Oct 27, 2007
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  9. JabbaJabba

    JabbaJabba ThinkPad Facilitator

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    Even though the startup time definitely was reduced for you, I must say I am still very curious about your boot times.

    May I ask what you are running on your notebook which make it boot so slow? :eek: It cannot be your system - looking at the specs in your signature, it is more than capable.

    According to Event Viewer my boot times on my ThinkPad X61 are between 39-45 seconds. I have defragged the boot files but that is about it. No significant tweaks have been made. I have about 69 processes running.
     
    JabbaJabba, Oct 27, 2007
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  10. cotton_mouth

    cotton_mouth Notebook Geek

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    er may i know how to check the boot time in the event viewer?
     
    cotton_mouth, Oct 28, 2007
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