Vista Boot Time

[The Critic]

So, I just did a clean install on a laptop with Vista Premium.

There are no unneeded services running at startup, everything is set correctly.

The problem is that there is about a 45 sec delay between the "welcome" user screen and when the desktop image and icons finally show up. During that 45 sec period, it's just a blank black screen.

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Colt45ws]

Defrag?
Is the HDD light going full blast or is it not doing much?

 

[The Critic]

Originally Posted By: Onmo'Eegusee
Defrag?
Is the HDD light going full blast or is it not doing much?

No HDD light. I just defragged it, no change whatsoever.

 

[CourierDriver]

I live out in the sticks, Im used to 1 minute sometimes for a screen to change, in a bad location I am. Can drive 8 miles into town and u would think Im on fiber optic, its just fast near towers and such. Im on wireless here

 

[KrisZ]

Is the time consistent on all boots? My Vista does that sometimes, first few times I thought Vista froze, but now I treat it as normal. However it is sporadic and most times Vista boots faster.

 

[heypete]

Do you have the latest video drivers installed? I had a similar problem if the video drivers weren't set up properly.

Of course, I rarely shut the computer down, and mostly just put it in sleep mode.

 

[ddrumman2004]

I'm not familiar with Vista but on my desktop pc, I disabled a lot of background services and the boot time on that computer is now less than 90 seconds..tops.

I Googled "services to shut down in XP" and I also found sites that catered to Vista as well. I then went into the services folder, right clicked on the service, then properties, then the logon tab. I then disabled the services that aren't needed.

Another thing that speeded up my boot time was dumping Zone Alarm. Since I'm behind a hardware firewall, I don't need the resource hog that ZA is. I just use the Windows firewall on that pc as well as this laptop I'm on.

My point is that there are a lot of unnecessary services running in the background.

 

[SrDriver]

This can help you speeding windows vista startup:

Click the Windows Start button.
Right click Computer.
Click Properties.
Click Advanced System settings.
In the Advanced Tab, Start and Recovery, click Settings.
In the Time to display operating systems list setting, set a 5 second value instead of 30.
Click Apply.

Post how this works for you.

Hope this helps.

 

[OVERKILL]

That only helps if it is actually giving you the boot menu prompt. If it isn't, that options has no effect.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

The first time the login happens (profile loads) a delay is expected.

I would disable the Windows Search/Indexing service first, reboot, see if it happens again.

If you're using McAfee A/V suite, it's known to extend login & shutdown times.

 

[The Critic]

Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
The first time the login happens (profile loads) a delay is expected.

I would disable the Windows Search/Indexing service first, reboot, see if it happens again.

If you're using McAfee A/V suite, it's known to extend login & shutdown times.


I'm running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise on it, so that may be the reason. Really can't switch to anything else since the school requires it.

I'll try disabling the Windows search/index feature.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

I just switched from McAfee enterprise to Vipre at my job for my functional area. Everyone noticed how logins & shutdowns were quicker once McAfee was no longer on the computer.

Back in the McAfee Ent 7.x days, an extra delay of 20+ seconds at system shutdown time was usual. Bleechcch.