HP Laptop

Just got a new HP laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. I notice that
it takes a LONG time for the system to come up when you first turn it on
(about 5 minutes or more). Any ideas as to why it takes so long or is this
just the way it is.

Thank you.
--
Kathy

Try the following performance tips:

Open Power Options (its in the Control Panel) and then
place a dot next to High Performance.

Next:

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:

Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).

Consider installing addition RAM up to 2GB. Having a total of
2GB RAM installed will significantly improve overall performance.
Visit: http://www.crucial.com/ and run the Crucial System Scanner Tool.


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Kathy" wrote:

Just got a new HP laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. I notice that
it takes a LONG time for the system to come up when you first turn it on
(about 5 minutes or more). Any ideas as to why it takes so long or is this
just the way it is.

Thank you.
--
Kathy

"Kathy" <> wrote in message
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> Just got a new HP laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. I notice
> that
> it takes a LONG time for the system to come up when you first turn it on
> (about 5 minutes or more). Any ideas as to why it takes so long or is
> this
> just the way it is.
>

And HP laptop with what kind of specs. I have a HP dv9000 laptop that had
Premium and now Ultimate. It boots in about up and at the desktop around 30
seconds maybe.

"Kathy" <> wrote in message
news:08375D99-94AE-4BCE-A9E1-...
> Just got a new HP laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. I notice
> that
> it takes a LONG time for the system to come up when you first turn it on
> (about 5 minutes or more). Any ideas as to why it takes so long or is
> this
> just the way it is.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Kathy


A lot of computer vendors add their own crapware to a system. Could be HP's
crapware is slowing things down. Read this article, it may help...

http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=4123468...b4-bf&s=5&fs=0

Good luck!

Lang

Thanks for your help. I did what you said, seems to go alot better now. I
do have 2gb ram on this laptop.
--
Kathy


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Try the following performance tips:
>
> Open Power Options (its in the Control Panel) and then
> place a dot next to High Performance.
>
> Next:
>
> Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
> right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
> on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
> "Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
> the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.
>
> Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:
>
> Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
> entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
> select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
> More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).
>
> Consider installing addition RAM up to 2GB. Having a total of
> 2GB RAM installed will significantly improve overall performance.
> Visit: http://www.crucial.com/ and run the Crucial System Scanner Tool.
>
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Kathy" wrote:
>
> Just got a new HP laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. I notice that
> it takes a LONG time for the system to come up when you first turn it on
> (about 5 minutes or more). Any ideas as to why it takes so long or is this
> just the way it is.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Kathy