Extreme Slow Boot up - 10 mins

[Guest]

Hi Guys,

Recently i've purchased a new notebook. Its a IBM (Lenovo T61)

Here are the specs:
1) NVIDIA Quadro (128MB)
2) 2GB RAM
3) 120 GB Hard Disk (Partitioned 70GB on C: and 40 GB on D
4) Windows Vista Business

Software Installed:
1) Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
2) Adobe Photoshop CS3
3) Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 Professional

Windows Vista Utilities Enabled:
1) Windows Vista (Sidebar) 4 gadgets running
2) Using the Windows Vista (Aero) theme

I realized that when i boot up from Vista, it took me around 10 minutes to
complete loading. Is there anything wrong or something i've missed out to
disable? Having to look at the system performance rating... (Windows
Experience Index) rated my machine as 4.0.

I need your advice guys, what actually went wrong on this such a slow
boot-up? Supposely are they any services that i can disable or stop so that
my system can boot up faster? I believe my system specs are optimize
sufficiently to run Windows Vista Business.

Hope to seek your advice. Many thanks in advance.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:

Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Mish"wrote:

Hi Guys,

Recently i've purchased a new notebook. Its a IBM (Lenovo T61)

Here are the specs:
1) NVIDIA Quadro (128MB)
2) 2GB RAM
3) 120 GB Hard Disk (Partitioned 70GB on C: and 40 GB on D
4) Windows Vista Business

Software Installed:
1) Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
2) Adobe Photoshop CS3
3) Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 Professional

Windows Vista Utilities Enabled:
1) Windows Vista (Sidebar) 4 gadgets running
2) Using the Windows Vista (Aero) theme

I realized that when i boot up from Vista, it took me around 10 minutes to
complete loading. Is there anything wrong or something i've missed out to
disable? Having to look at the system performance rating... (Windows
Experience Index) rated my machine as 4.0.

I need your advice guys, what actually went wrong on this such a slow
boot-up? Supposely are they any services that i can disable or stop so that
my system can boot up faster? I believe my system specs are optimize
sufficiently to run Windows Vista Business.

Hope to seek your advice. Many thanks in advance.

 

[Seven]

Hi Guys,

Recently i've purchased a new notebook. Its a IBM (Lenovo T61)

Here are the specs:
1) NVIDIA Quadro (128MB)
2) 2GB RAM
3) 120 GB Hard Disk (Partitioned 70GB on C: and 40 GB on D
4) Windows Vista Business

Software Installed:
1) Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
2) Adobe Photoshop CS3
3) Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 Professional

Windows Vista Utilities Enabled:
1) Windows Vista (Sidebar) 4 gadgets running
2) Using the Windows Vista (Aero) theme

I realized that when i boot up from Vista, it took me around 10 minutes to
complete loading. Is there anything wrong or something i've missed out to
disable? Having to look at the system performance rating... (Windows
Experience Index) rated my machine as 4.0.

I need your advice guys, what actually went wrong on this such a slow
boot-up? Supposely are they any services that i can disable or stop so
that
my system can boot up faster? I believe my system specs are optimize
sufficiently to run Windows Vista Business.

Hope to seek your advice. Many thanks in advance.

Disable the Windows Search Service

 

[Guest]

Hi Carey,

I've tried your solutions, however it didnt seems to help. My hard disk
"indicator" keeps blinking non-stop after the Vista desktop complete loaded
and i do believe that there are some tricky background process that actually
slowing this down.
The hard disk seems to be really BUSY but this would only last for 10-15
mins. Everything will goes as smooth as usual after the hard disk indicator
stops the continuous blinking... (whereby i suspect some of the services or
application) would have completely loaded.

Could the Windows Defender causes this delay on booting problem?

 

[Guest]

Dear Seven,

I've tried to disable the services as mentioned, but still no effect on my
current slow boot-up.

My hard disk indicator keeps bliking after i've logged in to my Vista and
these will continues even after all the application (sidebar, msn messenger,
network icon, etc) completely loaded...

Thanks... hope you can assist me to identify wat's wrong with this PC or
issit the VISTA common issue. Regards.

 

[NT Canuck]

I've tried to disable the services as mentioned, but still no effect on my
current slow boot-up.

My hard disk indicator keeps bliking after i've logged in to my Vista and
these will continues even after all the application (sidebar, msn messenger,
network icon, etc) completely loaded...

Thanks... hope you can assist me to identify wat's wrong with this PC or
issit the VISTA common issue. Regards.

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

also try enabling boot logging

and don't forget to look in eventvwr.msc

possibly something in hidden tasks (task scheduler)

try also with all network adaptors disabled..before shut down

NT Canuck
'Seek and ye shall find'