Vista loading times

Steve2000

Steve2000

Steve2000

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In my vista machine I have a C2D E6600 2.4GHz (currently not overclocked) and 4GB Kingston HyperX 800MHz memory, hard drive is a Seagate 500GB Sata-II, and running Vista 32bit.

The windows loading screen on startup takes a good 35-40 seconds to actually finish loading and arrive at the logon screen. Should it take this long? My XP machine is running an AMD Athlon 3200 with 512MB value memory and that is booted up and on the desktop in about 25-30 seconds max.

Is there something I might have overlooked here?

TIA.
 
The only thing I have at startup is NOD32 and the nvidia drivers.

The problem mainly lies with the actual vista loading screen though, in a race my XP machine would be on the desktop before my vista machine is even past the Windows loading screen.
 
Same problem, the only way I know to reduce it is using a Raptor, I know that cause a guy from work did it and it made a hell of a difference :)
 
I wouldn't have thought it should be taking so long.. My Vista loading screen times are certainly much shorter than that, on both my laptop and my desktop.
 
What sort of stuff do you have on your HDD? How much out of how much?

EDIT: Just timed mine, it took 40 seconds on the Vista bar loading screen, 15 seconds from that till the desktop, with everything else it took 1:05
 
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Not much on the HDD, only using about 80GB worth. I'm sure I've seen Vista load faster than this somewhere. Google isn't my friend on this one. :(
 
Download Tuneup Utilities 2009 trial and use all the options to tune up your maachine with it... has mine working nicely. brb gonna time my reboot.
 
p.s. With my 2G dual channel OCZ 8500 RAM set at 666.7mhz instead of the 1066 because I'm having ram trouble. Prolly faster once I'm running at stock values?
 
sir-les-mp said:
I know from previous experenice that Norton of any kind does slow down a pc
it is one of the most resource hungry anti virus progs availeable.
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He said NOD32, not Norton. NOD32 is known to be one of the most efficient AVs around because it's programmed in Assembly :)

OP: is your Vista install a recent one? I always find it very slow for the first few days as it indexes and prefetches everything.
 
Well it's been installed for about 3 months now. I've kept meaning to do something about this but never got round to it.

I've never heard of setting multiple CPUs in boot.ini though, think I'll give that a try now.
 
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