Help with NP8660 (bootup issue)

hi there guys its been a while and i've been too busy enjoying my time with this beast

recently i clearned my notebook with some compressed air and other stuff

and for the past whole week i have noticed a dramatic increase in my bootup time which used to be no more than 1-2 min now goes to around 5 mins and its really freaking me out

my spec are in my sig

my harddrive is at 230 GB free space

and i have defraged/virus/spyware cleaned my system as well
and heres a snapshot of my startup program


also sometime i think its my CD-ROM because if i bootup my notebook with my cd drive open it does goes just a little faster

anyways please let me no ur suggestions

also can it be cause by bios cause mine is the saem from dec08 when i first received the notebook

 

What exactly is taking so long (well the longest)? POST, any dual boot, before vista user menu, or once into your user profile?

 

well its the microsoft vista loading screen so in terms of bar that cycles during loading which never used to go beyond 7-8 now going over 30+ yes i counted them hehe

 

Try Bootvis from microsoft.

 

i dont believe bootvis is available for vista i searched but couldnt find one

thanks though please help me guys

 

I'm not sure about the rest of it but I would recommend Avast! over AVG. I used AVG for years, but the last version I used slowed my boot times enough to give me flashback or Norton Antivirus and it's resource hogging skills. I've had no problems at all with Avast!.

Ignore the Professional version and grab the free version
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

 

thx that did actully helped lot but any other tips that can improve the bootup

 

Well it could be alot of stuff so just go clean the most you can..

-Run CCleaner
-Defrag your hdd
-Complete AV scan (I think you did that already)
-Check the startup programs and processes. Try and get rid of unused ones.

Now boot up without anything in the cdrom drive or in usb. Hope that helps.

 

Check the boot up priority order in the Bios to make sure it isn't searching for unnecessary devices before it boots from the primary drive.

 

tip: don't run an antivirus, most behave like viruses themselves. The best antivirus is YOU.

 

Thing is, if it's already infected, I don't think he'll be able to scan his computer himself. I switched to Kapersky 2 days ago, and I am getting some very fast bootups, I would say around 30 sec.

 

excellent that never even crossed my mind, turned out some usb slots were taking the top 3 order while my hdd was on #5, it brought my boot up back to normal

yup also thanks guys , rite about the thing YOU being the best antivirus i was just talking along those line about it with my buddy good to know someone share the same ideas hehe

 

Good to hear the issue has now been sorted. Regarding Antivirus, I only have those installed on my Desktop but I don't use any real time security programs at all on my laptop. I have the luxury of doing this because I don't use my laptop for anything apart from gaming, music, movies etc.

What I do is to be careful, make sure I have a clean system, check the Registry run keys every now and then and I do Antivirus scans of mounted drive images of my laptop. So after I have done a complete Drive Snapshot of my entire laptop hard disk contents, I will mount that image on my desktop and do a full Antivirus scan.

 

hmm interesting way to do a antivirus scan, give giving me more details on the image of the hdd n snapshot, i no that its possible to create that shorta stuff in prof n ultimate edition of vista but am on premium home,

another question i mentioned before gthat i have not updated my bios since i got the pc and its almost 10 months old so should i update my bios or leave it as it is cause i wont b upgrading my processor netime soon...

 

I don't use the built in disk imaging included in Windows, I use a 3rd party program called Drive Snapshot Drive Snapshot Homepage although Acronis True Image is more user friendly. Note that Drive Snapshots imaging while Windows is running has not been upgraded to support Windows 7 but I do all of my imaging via a Bootable Bart PE CD before Windows boots so this doesn't matter.

Regarding the Bios, I haven't updated mine either and tend to leave that alone unless updating will fix a specific problem. If I knew an updated Bios would improve something for sure then I might consider it.