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    Vista boot up question.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by tyrus13, Jul 21, 2008.

  1. tyrus13

    tyrus13 Newbie

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    Hi guys,

    I have 2 month old Vista Home Premium 32 bit. After tweaking, boot up time was about 55 seconds at max. Yesterday while I was running defragbootfiles, I turned the laptop upside down twice to look at something. After defragbootfiles was done, I restarted the computer, and boot up time was about 1 min 30 secs, and it has been consistently 1 min 30 secs since.

    I am moderately savvy with computer, but I cannot figure out what happened. I know this is a long shot, so I'm just throwing this on the table and hoping that our ensuing discussion might be able to solve this.

    Thanks!
     
    tyrus13, Jul 21, 2008
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  2. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    I'd try redoing the tweaks
     
    JCMS, Jul 21, 2008
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  3. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Try a System Restore....
    I bust my laptop around quite a bit, but if you think something is wrong with the HDD....Check out some Diagnostic Tools....
     
    Andy, Jul 21, 2008
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    tyrus13 Newbie

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    I applied the tweaks weeks ago. So I don't think it has anything to do with that. But I'll check.

    I'll try a system restore too. My HDD is Toshiba and that site doesn't have a diagnostic tool for Toshiba HDD.
     
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  5. Andy

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    Or try doing an error scan with HD Tune....
     
    Andy, Jul 21, 2008
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    Cool thanks! I didn't think about that. I tried doing Chkdsk but of course it freezes towards the end.
     
    tyrus13, Jul 21, 2008
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