Vista Boot up Time

[Willie]

I wanted to know if anyone else has this happen.When I boot up my pc
everything is fine until after the microsoft meter.There's no activity for
about 2 mins then Vista loads up. Any feed back would be greatly
appreciated. Also How can I make vista ultimate upgrade boot from the
cdrom.I set the boot priority in the bios to boot from cdrombut it won't
boot,it goes to hard drive and boots into vista.

 

[Guest]

You have to boot to your dvd drive since the Vista disk is a dvd.

 

[Guest]

Our Dell Dimensions 8300 takes about 5 minutes to boot but works fine when up
and running. It's running Vista Home Premium as a clean install from my
Vista Ultimate disk - bought the Family Pack. I had WinXP Pro on it so clean
install was required. I did transfer all data settings first, though, as
suggested.

Anyone have any thoughts about the slow boot up time? Maybe just because
the processor is P4 2.6 Mhz with hyperthreading, not dual core? Works fine
when up though.

 

[Dale White]

I believe the Microsoft Meter and after is the checking of disk. If you want
to see what's going on, without the pretty GUI.

Go to admin tools, choose System Configuration, choose boot tab, the check
the box that says OS Boot information. This is the old SOS switch from
2K\XP.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dale! That's very helpfull.

I believe the Microsoft Meter and after is the checking of disk. If you want
to see what's going on, without the pretty GUI.

Go to admin tools, choose System Configuration, choose boot tab, the check
the box that says OS Boot information. This is the old SOS switch from
2K\XP.