Vista takes 60 seconds to boot to the "Welcome" screen; after that, it hangs
at a black screen (with a moveable cursor) for another 30 seconds before the
GUI loads.. any ideas?

Stats: 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Intel graphics chipset
(integrated 220-some-odd MB)

My computer recently started doing the same thing, and I found a work-around
on one of the threads on this forum.

At the black screen, hit control-alt-delete to bring up the menu screen.
Click the item for starting Task Manager. Find explorer.exe on the processes
tab; right click it to bring up the menu; and click End Process. After
explorer closes: click File on the menu bar; click New; type in explorer.exe;
and click OK. On my computer, that brings up the desktop.


"spartan" wrote:

> Vista takes 60 seconds to boot to the "Welcome" screen; after that, it hangs
> at a black screen (with a moveable cursor) for another 30 seconds before the
> GUI loads.. any ideas?
>
> Stats: 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Intel graphics chipset
> (integrated 220-some-odd MB)

Conley wrote:
> My computer recently started doing the same thing, and I found a work-around
> on one of the threads on this forum.
>
> At the black screen, hit control-alt-delete to bring up the menu screen.
> Click the item for starting Task Manager. Find explorer.exe on the processes
> tab; right click it to bring up the menu; and click End Process. After
> explorer closes: click File on the menu bar; click New; type in explorer.exe;
> and click OK. On my computer, that brings up the desktop.
>
>
> "spartan" wrote:
>
>> Vista takes 60 seconds to boot to the "Welcome" screen; after that, it hangs
>> at a black screen (with a moveable cursor) for another 30 seconds before the
>> GUI loads.. any ideas?
>>
>> Stats: 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Intel graphics chipset
>> (integrated 220-some-odd MB)

That's an OK workaround but it would be better to find out what is
causing the delay. Do this by doing a clean-boot:

Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434
How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

In my case, and in most of the other cases I have seen mentioned on this
forum, the computer does not get stuck at the black screen on every boot. I
do not see how you can systematically troubleshoot an intermittent problem
that you do not know will recur on the very next boot.

"Malke" wrote:

> Conley wrote:
> > My computer recently started doing the same thing, and I found a work-around
> > on one of the threads on this forum.
> >
> > At the black screen, hit control-alt-delete to bring up the menu screen.
> > Click the item for starting Task Manager. Find explorer.exe on the processes
> > tab; right click it to bring up the menu; and click End Process. After
> > explorer closes: click File on the menu bar; click New; type in explorer.exe;
> > and click OK. On my computer, that brings up the desktop.
> >
> >
> > "spartan" wrote:
> >
> >> Vista takes 60 seconds to boot to the "Welcome" screen; after that, it hangs
> >> at a black screen (with a moveable cursor) for another 30 seconds before the
> >> GUI loads.. any ideas?
> >>
> >> Stats: 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Intel graphics chipset
> >> (integrated 220-some-odd MB)
>
> That's an OK workaround but it would be better to find out what is
> causing the delay. Do this by doing a clean-boot:
>
> Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
> Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP -
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434
> How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Conley wrote:
> In my case, and in most of the other cases I have seen mentioned on this
> forum, the computer does not get stuck at the black screen on every boot. I
> do not see how you can systematically troubleshoot an intermittent problem
> that you do not know will recur on the very next boot.

Well, you've got to at least try. At least I would, because I like my
computers to work perfectly. Naturally whether you take the time to do
this is your choice. I see that I gave you clean-boot instructions for
XP in error. Here is an updated link:

How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

I've optimized my machine's startup via msconfig; I don't know how many
processes are ran on average as all my machines that run XP run 26 processes
tops. Here I'm running 52; I've done a clean boot and the problem still
persists..

"Malke" wrote:

> Conley wrote:
> > In my case, and in most of the other cases I have seen mentioned on this
> > forum, the computer does not get stuck at the black screen on every boot. I
> > do not see how you can systematically troubleshoot an intermittent problem
> > that you do not know will recur on the very next boot.
>
> Well, you've got to at least try. At least I would, because I like my
> computers to work perfectly. Naturally whether you take the time to do
> this is your choice. I see that I gave you clean-boot instructions for
> XP in error. Here is an updated link:
>
> How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>