Vista load time

Hello all..

I own an HP DV4T with the following specs:

# Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
# Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T9400 (2.53 GHz)
# 3GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
# 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
# 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP

I have noy uninstalled any of the programs that come with the PC. This means that I am running Norton. I have installed Spybot and Firefox.

When I turn it on it takes 90 seconds to show me the login screen. Is this too long?

I should say that a program called "Viewpont manager" is unavailable in the Control Panel.

 

90 seconds is a little long.

On a clean vista machine with less oomph than yours I typically see boot times of about 55 to 65 seconds.

I recently reinstalled a machine for someone and noted that a couple of programs add significantly to the boot times--two of the worst are Norton (or any antivirus, but Norton was the worst) and itunes. Both added about 30 seconds each.

 

That sounds very long to me. Boo to bloatware.

Gerry, he isn't even talking to the desktop, just to the login screen.

Greg

 

I do have both Norton and iTunes installed. May that be it.

Furthermore, I intend to use Decrapifier to clean my PC... where do I find a list of programs that are safe to remove in my system.

 

All HP Products basically. I have none on my laptop. All preinstalled crap is uninstallable.

 

Well guys... I decided to do a reinstall... It now boots up in 1 minute, seconds more, seconds less.... So big improvement... now I just have to remove the bloatware.

 

It takes about 45 sec for me.

 

A clean install will give you boot times of 30-50 seconds. Uninstalling the programs wont be as good as a clean install.

 

If I go into the events log I get two warnings:

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
[ Guid] {cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}

EventID 200

Version 1

Level 3

Task 4007

Opcode 40

Keywords 0x8000000000010000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2008-10-23T02:36:46.059Z

EventRecordID 87

- Correlation

[ ActivityID] {00000000-9B8C-0001-CD09-51A1B734C901}

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 2060
[ ThreadID] 2516

Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational

Computer Nassef-PC

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-19


- EventData

ShutdownTsVersion 1
ShutdownStartTime 2008-10-23T00:50:56.562Z
ShutdownEndTime 2008-10-23T00:51:24.089Z
ShutdownTime 27526
ShutdownUserSessionTime 6425
ShutdownUserPolicyTime 0
ShutdownUserProfilesTime 3
ShutdownSystemSessionsTime 17348
ShutdownPreShutdownNotificationsTime 606
ShutdownServicesTime 16586
ShutdownKernelTime 3753
ShutdownRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
ShutdownRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
ShutdownRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
ShutdownRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
ShutdownIsDegradation false
ShutdownTimeChange 0

AND

System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
[ Guid] {cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}

EventID 100

Version 1

Level 3

Task 4002

Opcode 34

Keywords 0x8000000000010000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2008-10-23T02:36:47.291Z

EventRecordID 88

- Correlation

[ ActivityID] {00000000-9B8C-0001-CE09-51A1B734C901}

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 2060
[ ThreadID] 2508

Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational

Computer Nassef-PC

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-19


- EventData

BootTsVersion 2
BootStartTime 2008-10-23T02:32:44.687Z
BootEndTime 2008-10-23T02:36:44.210Z
SystemBootInstance 20
UserBootInstance 6
BootTime 77646
MainPathBootTime 49846
BootKernelInitTime 16
BootDriverInitTime 5617
BootDevicesInitTime 6931
BootPrefetchInitTime 77428
BootPrefetchBytes 448643072
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 24905
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 899
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 1421
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 7
BootExplorerInitTime 5828
BootNumStartupApps 14
BootPostBootTime 27800
BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
BootIsDegradation false
BootIsStepDegradation false
BootIsGradualDegradation false
BootImprovementDelta 0
BootDegradationDelta 0
BootIsRootCauseIdentified false


Does anyone hnow what this means???

 

Yes, basically, it means your system is shutting down in 27 seconds and starting in 77 seconds.

There is a lot of additional information which is being pulled from the Application and Service Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnostics-Performance > Operational events

I don' even know why that is throwing a warning. All of your degredation events are false. My guess is that this is taking a little longer than expected so it's throwing a warning.

Since you just reinstalled, though, I wouldn't worry about it. Over the next few defragment cycles windows will move boot files to better locations to improve performance.

 

Thank you very much for your help.

 

i agree but its still very helpful to uninstall all the bloatware and delete unneeded junk from the harddrive...

 

How do you access the "event log"?

 

Control Panel --- Performance Information and Tools --- Advanced Tools --- View Performance Details in Event Log