Vista long boot time

Iwe just (for the 2nd time) installed a fresh Vista business edition 32bit on my zepto 622w. All works like a charm.. Though!

After showing the green loading vista bar thingy booting up, the screen goes black for arround 1-2 mins, before showing my desktop.

Its a fresh installation..

Anyone else experienced this? (as said my system is a core 2 duo 1,6 with 1 gb ram)

Cheers

 

Well, a slow boot can be caused by alot of things. I'm just going to assume that a virus/spyware isn't the issue since you just installed.
A slow HDD is a factor. XP Pro was always a little slower to boot when it had to cope with getting into a network at the same time, I guess this can apply to Business as well. Could be thats the case here. Maybe you have a lot of things to load on start-up. Try looking in to that.

 

No stuff loading at startup (configged with tuneup) .. harddrives are 7200 RPM..

My personal guess would be a ram issue since i only have 1 gb of memory.. but im not to familiar to how vista goes performance wise yet.

 

Its alllllll coz of Video Drivers...update them. go to laptopvideo2go.com


Secondary step...go to Task Scheduler & disable TMM

 

The blackout would be solved by the TMM switch, but 1-2 minutes seems excessive. How large is your windows folder? Or, how much space has been taken up on the hard drive after the fresh install?

I ran into a similar problem late last year. Multiple reinstallations with the OEM Vista Ultimate disc did not properly format my hard drive prior to the OS installation. So what happened was - after the fourth or fifth reinstallation or so - I ended up with a "freshly installed" OS that was taking up close to half of my 120GB hard drive! And the performance of the system was agonizing. I would sometimes wait up to 5 minutes from power on to a usable desktop.

As one Dell tech explained to me (taken with a grain of salt, as well), the current OS installation was somehow trying to access data from the unerased previous installations, and that's what was causing my terrible performance issues and extremely long waits.

 

currently .. with a few programs, using 14 gb of space.. Dunno if thats over the top? (got office installed and a few other medium sized apps).

My windows folder is 8,00 gb total.

Whats the TMM switch?

 

Why'd you reinstall Windows in the first place?

 

xp -> vista (got a free new license from work)

 

It's weird. Never had these issues myself after a reinstall. This is puzzeling.

 

Agree, rams cheap for 1gb stick. You might give it a go.

 

I found that I am getting much better boot times after I enabled performance mode on my HD and enabled caching.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532

 

was the TMM (i have an external monitor connected).. though it has gotten better with updates.

 

Do the tweaks mentioned in the link I quoted. They'll help a lot.

 

It is probably your RAM, 1gb is the minimum recommended level afaik although there are reports of Vista being able to run on 512mb :wtf:

And I doubt all of the 1gb is being detected either, my mate had 1gb of RAM on Vista 32bit Home Premium and it was only showing 900mb as being recognised.

I'd say upgrade the RAM to 2gb, my mate did and his laptop now boots quicker, mine on the other hand has Vista Ultimate 32bit, 4gb physically on the RAM boards and boots from pressing the power button to the desktop in 1 minute 45 seconds max, that to me is slow compared to a 40 second un-tweaked XP boot, and I've gone through Vista with a fine tooth comb and tweaked everything possible to speed up the boot time...

 

Trying tweaking it....below my sig link.

 

huh? Of course Vista runs on 512MB RAM, not good but, it does run with Aero off(Home Basic). & Of course it shows 900MB, manufacturers consider 1000MB to be 1GB when really, 1024MB=1GB.

 

upgrade your ram to 2gb you will notice a big difference.