how to determine why boot is slow.

I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to boot,
so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought together.
Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4 mins.
They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software. How
do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?
--
Doug

First thing I would check is the Event Viewer to see if there are any logged
reports that could probably give a clue as to what might be causing the
performance issues.

I would do a disk clean up, download and install the latest device drivers
for your system, run a system scan with your Antivirus and Antispyware
utility. Also, make sure your applications and are up to date.

Open the Run Command (Windows key + R), select the 'Startup' tab uncheck any
unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Doug" <> wrote in message
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>I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to
>boot,
> so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought together.
> Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4
> mins.
> They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software.
> How
> do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?
> --
> Doug

Control Panel\Administrative Tools\System Configuration then click o
startup

--
scrooge

"Doug" <> wrote in message
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>I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to
>boot,
> so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought together.
> Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4
> mins.
> They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software.
> How
> do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?
> --
> Doug


They may have been bought together, they may have even been identical twins
at manufacture, but a year with two different operators is the main factor
as to why they will be anything but identical now.

You may not have a problem at all if you have instituted programs which
start when Windows starts. You may have different printer software, security
software etc installed.

Is the computer generally slow, or is boot up just the issue here. Do you
run invasive anti-virus software like Norton or McAfee? Do you have anything
like the Weather Channel in your startup groups? Are you running intensive
gadgets in your sidebar?

--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

delete the contents of the PREFETCH folder and try it again.

just the contents of the folder not the folder.

windows will rebuild what it currently needs in eh folder.








"Doug" <> wrote in message news:3D4E7871-A227-4FCC-89D8-...
I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to boot,
so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought together.
Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4 mins.
They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software. How
do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?
--
Doug

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> Open the Run Command (Windows key + R), select the 'Startup' tab uncheck
> any
> unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system.

Something missing in these instructions? I see no startup tab in "run."

Thanks for pointing that out for me DP. I guess the D and P stands for
De-pendable.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"DP" <> wrote in message
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> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
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>>
>>
>> Open the Run Command (Windows key + R), select the 'Startup' tab uncheck
>> any
>> unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system.
>
> Something missing in these instructions? I see no startup tab in "run."

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:25:03 -0800, Doug
<> wrote:

> I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to boot,
> so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought together.
> Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4 mins.
> They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software. How
> do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?


You're worrying about a four minute boot time?

My personal view is that the attention many people pay to how long it
takes to boot is unwarranted. Assuming that the computer's speed is
otherwise satisfactory, it may not be worth worrying about. Most
people start their computers once a day or even less frequently. In
the overall scheme of things, even a few minutes to start up isn't
very important. Personally I power on my computer when I get up in the
morning, then go get my coffee. When I come back, it's done booting. I
don't know how long it took to boot and I don't care.

However if you do want to address it, it may be because of what
programs start automatically, and you may want to stop some of them
from starting that way. On each program you don't want to start
automatically, check its Options to see if it has the choice not to
start (make sure you actually choose the option not to run it, not
just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily and best be stopped
that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the Start | Run
line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't want to
start automatically.

However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of
running the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell
you, you should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs
you run, but *which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but
others have no effect on performance.

Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do
is determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what
the cost in performance is of its running all the time. You can get
more information about these at
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it there,
try google searches and ask about specifics here.

Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Doug wrote:

> I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to
> boot, so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought
> together.
> Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4
> mins.
> They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software.
> How do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?

Obviously, you have 100 pieces of malware installed on your 'puter while
your friend has only 50.

Cheers.

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"NoStop" <> wrote in message
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> Doug wrote:
>
>> I have a notebook running Vista Ultimate. It seems to be very slow to
>> boot, so I checked it against a friend's identical notebook - bought
>> together.
>> Identical processor, RAM, HDD etc. His boots in 2 mins. mine takes 4
>> mins.
>> They are now about a year old, so we obviously have different software.
>> How do I check what it is that causes the slow boot?
>
> Obviously, you have 100 pieces of malware installed on your 'puter while
> your friend has only 50.
>
> Cheers.
>

Hehehe...you are tooo funny.