Vista taking longer than usual...

I used to load up vista pretty fast, usually around 7-9 bars give or take... (cycles of the green dots)

I wanted to bring it down a little more so I disabled a few more services and disabled a few drivers... Vista didn't appreciate it. On the start-up I got the BSOD and it automatically restarted and I choose to boot up the "last working configuration." I looked around and it seemed like it just re-enabled the drivers I had disabled.

But then I noticed a curious side-effect, which was that Vista was now taking around 15-19 bars. I really have no clue why this is, I have been looking around to see if anything was enabled or disabled for that matter and everything seems to be the way it was. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

OK.

I looked through all the services again and oddly enough Readyboost and Superfetch were disabled... I could have sworn I had enabled them.

Anywho. I let it do it's thing, we are back to 7sh bars!

I used to HATE the disk thrashing, but man, suddenly I love Superfetch!

Anyone (guilty here) who complains about the disk thrashing and what not, count your blessings that the boys in Redmond came up with this... or else Vista would seriously be a pain in the ***.

 

Uh my Vista always ran extremely fast on the 4 computers that I used it on. There's alot of various tweaks that can increase performance like crazy. What are your system specs?

 

I used to get 5-7 bars loading (recently I've been using Ubuntu a lot)...check out the Tips and Tweaks Guide. Especially the defragging boot files tweak.

 

nu_D, if you disable the Readyboost service, its been proved to take alot longer to startup. Not sure why it does it though.

Its not superfetch...

 

lol this reminds me of when i talked in tweakx about how many bars goes by before windows start.. since bios takes diff amount of time depending on the system.. and someone made a smart comment about my bar counting...

anyways 7-9 is pretty good .. i'm on an ssd and i get average 9 green bars, but mine is 0.5ms/mlc .. and mind you i have ALOT of startup programs/startup scanners.

my other one with a slc <0.1ms ssd counts2-3 green bars on startup. even w/ mcafee.. so unless you go for the expensive ssds 7 bars isnt too bad... i suppose it'll be possible to get down to 5 if u did more :/

 

btw you can speed boots a little by not "booting" at all... hibernate is a bit faster than booting from scratch. I only fully reboot after installing driver updates or OS updates.

 

I already gave you my two cents.

I would hibernate if my boot took longer than a minute, but since it's under 30, I can deal. 5.2 bars for me.