Long Start-Up Times

Hello again.
My comp' seems to be very slow during satrt ups.
I am not talking about the perios of time that is AFTER windows had already loaded, but rather the period of time that takes place BEFORE the desktop shows himself:
From the moment I start till the moment it asks me for the password. more so, after I enter my passord the "loading your personal settings" us also taking what seems to be more then a reasonable time.
Its even weirder when I am doing a Restart - then the computer seems to be "fallling a sleep" for 2 minutes until the Lenovo white screen logo starts again.
It is an N100 with 1 Gig of Ram.
From your expirience, is that normal ?
Any suggestions ?
Thanks.

 

g'day there...i've got a similar configuration, and haven't had a drastic reduction in speed.. The main questions are: have you got rid of all the unnecessary programs that came on the laptop (norton, coreloffice, etc.)? Have you install a fair amount of programs afterwards that are all trying to load things in the background?

Also, for system improvement, see this very helpful thread.

 

The link that mnaah has given, is a good guide to sorting the loading and shutting/restarting times out. If you are still unhappy, then yu may want to consider a hard disk upgrade to something like a 7200 RPM, as they offer quite an improvment upon slower spin rate hard disks. This is assuming you don't already have a 7200 RPM drive.

 

I had noticed the same thing. I believe it to be software related because when I did a reformat with a fresh operating system it was much faster.

I had the same delay after typing in a password. It would sit there for about an minute before the desktop would show up.

When shutting down the shut down screen would also stay there for 1-2 minutes.

 

I believe this hanging on startup/shutdown is mainly due to the ethernet NIC trying to gain an IP address. While you may have nothing plugged in it, it still tries. I know it sounds stupid and weird, but try it - disable your Ethernet and see how it goes. I remember having this same problem with my T60 WS, so I simply restored and fiddled around with it a little bit. Also, there are online guides for faster shutdowns too, involving using the registry... most of them basically reduce the time Windows waits before killing a program/service. One even lets Windows kill them itself without your input ....

EDIT: Also try making sure that you have the latest drivers. Sometimes that helps too.