Hi, recently I have been noticing that my PC boots alot slower than it normally does. I have disabled all of the unwanted services, done a disk defrag and cleanup, removed programs from my hard drive and even done a system restore but none of these methods have worked.

Can anyone help me?

Regards,
Eddy

anyone?

https://www.soluto.com/
try it

have u turned it on and off again?

Quote from Hahmo :

https://www.soluto.com/
try it

Thanks I have tried it but it has only knocked 4 seconds off my boot time so it is still a bit slow I dont know what else people can suggest...

Vista.. Wasnt that the ultra slow, crappy non functional operating system from a decade ago?

Yes it was.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Vista.. Wasnt that the ultra slow, crappy non functional operating system from a decade ago?

Yes it was.

Works perfectly fine here. Perhaps the OP needs to format c:

Quote from cargame.nl :

Vista.. Wasnt that the ultra slow, crappy non functional operating system from a decade ago?

Yes it was.

Yeah, I bought a PC with vista many years ago, I wiped it and put windows XP on it, so much better!

Quote from boothy :

Perhaps the OP needs to format c:

And put W7 on it yeah, excellent idea.

Immediately saves around 40 Gig or something while your at it.

Quote from boothy :

Works perfectly fine here.

People 'racing' with 12 fps here say that too, so I'm not surprised to read this.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I dont really need windows 7 because Vista does everything for me. So I guys im just stuck with a 1 minute 48 second boot time :banghead:

And by the way, Hahmo will Soluto keep finding stuff that slows down the boot up time on my pc so i can disable them?

OK.. Stubborn.. Thats OK.

start services.msc (type on command line in start menu) and disable services you don't need.

Best investment is a SSD though. I have like 10 sec startup time. But I'm from 2023 anyway, it seems.

From time i hit power to when my desktop shows takes about 1 minute with quad core and win 7. Might be because of all startup stuff but honestly 1 min 48 seconds isnt that long

Personally I use Autoruns ( http://technet.microsoft.com/e ... ysinternals/bb963902.aspx ) to manage the startups, but it would be too long to explain everything here... What I can advise you is to download the guide for your windows version and to start configuring/tweaking it properly (very easy to use and understandable for most pc users): http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

If you want to know more about windows services, here is the best resource I know: http://www.blackviper.com/

Also you can find other guides for your graphic cards and firefox here: http://www.tweakguides.com/System.html

Dave: the story about Vista was made by all those journalists who wanted to boost their stats, most of it was bull.. at the time we've worked a lot on this subject, and my friend at tweakguides.com even write an article on the subject: http://www.tweakguides.com/VA_1.html

Boost what stats?

I used Vista before and the sluggishness, the high memory consumption and finally the unfixable and outrageous harddisk drive consumption made me decide to look at alternatives at that time. OS X wasnt stable on my machine and needed to go back to XP. Luckily Windows 7 was released quickly, you can tweak to death on Vista (like I did initially) but the memory consumption (ram/hdd) just isnt fixable.

Vista stores every old driver installation and system state too. Can't remember the directory but if you delete it (like I did ) it's the end of your Vista install.

Windows 7 still eats a ridiculous 21 Gb away of my SSD but it's far less then this Vista did.

I am not kidding about those ten seconds; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j84eEjP-RL4&t=32s ... I think I am blessed with this quick startup of everything and I know I am ahead in time with it. But I got no three times more expensive Iphone

I mean like the numbers of readers...

RAM and HDD usage were caused by the new evolution of prefetcher called superfetch (which is still the same in win7, but newer optimized version, also updated in vista now) and the search service which was caused by a bad default indexing of files (default indexing is better in win7 and easier to config)... new tech needs time to mature...


That folder is called winsxs in win7 and it grows the same way as Vista, this has been done to insure compatibility and allow the system to rollback drivers and so on when something goes wrong.... mine is around 9GB now...

Well configured windows 7 install should boot around 15sec max with good ssd, so I am not surprised at all... haven't done much testing on Vista with SSD though...