Slow Booting Up Windows Vista

bc2-kagamine · 08-26-10, 08:55 AM

Err, I asking this for my friend...
He use Windows Vista,
and he says his pc always stuck at the boot screen for over 2 mins
(or longer),
And he had to reboot it again and again!!
What is the issue?

orion456 · 08-27-10, 09:19 AM

Some possibilities:

1. slow hard drives make Vista very slow.

2. a bad driver that causes Vista to wait until it returns a bad status report

3. defective hardware that is returning an error status to Vista (memory, hard drive, DVD)

4. if its a laptop, then a slow hard drive combined with too many Vista functions (defrag, drive optimization, super prefetch, indexing, last time stamp) can
really slow Vista down. You can turn these functions off as well as upgrade to a faster HD.

madhatter256 · 08-27-10, 01:04 PM

My laptop has vista 64bit and 4gigs RAM. It originally came with a 250gig 5400RPM sata drive, but upgraded it 7200RPM 500gb WD drive. There was a slight improvement in boot-up time, but in the end it would still take over a minute to fully boot up.

It's a Vista thing you'll have to live with until you upgrade to Win7.

oakstave · 08-27-10, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madhatter256

My laptop has vista 64bit and 4gigs RAM. It originally came with a 250gig 5400RPM sata drive, but upgraded it 7200RPM 500gb WD drive. There was a slight improvement in boot-up time, but in the end it would still take over a minute to fully boot up.

It's a Vista thing you'll have to live with until you upgrade to Win7.

Good, so it's not just me. I was thinking: "2 minute boot time... sounds about right."

RJARRRPCGP · 08-30-10, 06:48 PM

Likely that the HDD is a POS. Sorry.

Wathnix · 08-31-10, 09:16 PM

Windows 7 + Solid State Hard Drive = fast boot time

xoke · 08-31-10, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bc2-kagamine

Err, I asking this for my friend...
He use Windows Vista,
and he says his pc always stuck at the boot screen for over 2 mins
(or longer),
And he had to reboot it again and again!!
What is the issue?

Is he by chance running Norton Internet Security...the most bloated slow booting POS program of all time?

gottcha · 09-01-10, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xokeman

Is he by chance running Norton Internet Security...the most bloated slow booting POS program of all time?

+1
or that synatics crap. I took that of a buddies lappy and it boot three times as fast.

Jmtyra · 09-01-10, 05:22 PM

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bc2-kagamine New Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Macau, China	Slow Booting Up Windows Vista Err, I asking this for my friend... He use Windows Vista, and he says his pc always stuck at the boot screen for over 2 mins (or longer), And he had to reboot it again and again!! What is the issue?
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orion456 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Canada	Some possibilities: 1. slow hard drives make Vista very slow. 2. a bad driver that causes Vista to wait until it returns a bad status report 3. defective hardware that is returning an error status to Vista (memory, hard drive, DVD) 4. if its a laptop, then a slow hard drive combined with too many Vista functions (defrag, drive optimization, super prefetch, indexing, last time stamp) can really slow Vista down. You can turn these functions off as well as upgrade to a faster HD. __________________ -- W3570 @ 3.8 P6TD on Swiftech H20-220 -- QX9650 P5K-E on Swiftech H20-220 water, ATI 3870, G.Skill PC 8500. The only thing for sure, is that nothing is for sure! Last edited by orion456; 08-27-10 at 09:33 AM.
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madhatter256 Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: CFL	My laptop has vista 64bit and 4gigs RAM. It originally came with a 250gig 5400RPM sata drive, but upgraded it 7200RPM 500gb WD drive. There was a slight improvement in boot-up time, but in the end it would still take over a minute to fully boot up. It's a Vista thing you'll have to live with until you upgrade to Win7. __________________ Heatware
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