Vista now take AGES to start

[Mary]

Today my system locked and I was forced to turn it off by holding the
power button in which I hate doing.

When I turned it on again I got the DOS screen saying it had not shut
down properly and I chose the start Windows normally option.

It took AGES to start - after the BIOS, the screen was blank for a few
minutes then it took just as long when the progress bar appeared.
Finally it started and worked perfectly - it ran at normal speed.

I tried rebooting in safe mode and it was just as slow and is still
just as slow booting up every time I turn the PC on.

I noticed that all my restore points had gone. I've run a virus and
spyware check and it is clean.

What could be causing this?

Any ideas welcome.

Vista Home Premium
X2 4200 processor
2GB RAM
6800GT Video card
320GB SATA HD

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Try running CHKDSK on your hard disk:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

Note, when running from the Command Prompt, make sure it is opened with
Administrative privledges. Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories and
right-click on the Command Prompt and choose "Run as administrator".

 

[David]

Try running CHKDSK on your hard disk:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

did u deliberately not mention the /f parameter? I know its listed in
the article, but some folks might just uselessly run chkdsk w/o the "/f"
if they dont read thru the article u linked to.

Dave

 

[Andrew Rossmann]

Today my system locked and I was forced to turn it off by holding the
power button in which I hate doing.

When I turned it on again I got the DOS screen saying it had not shut
down properly and I chose the start Windows normally option.

It took AGES to start - after the BIOS, the screen was blank for a few
minutes then it took just as long when the progress bar appeared.
Finally it started and worked perfectly - it ran at normal speed.

I tried rebooting in safe mode and it was just as slow and is still
just as slow booting up every time I turn the PC on.

I noticed that all my restore points had gone. I've run a virus and
spyware check and it is clean.

What could be causing this?

Any ideas welcome.

It will be normal for it to take longer to boot up when switching
between safe and normal modes, or after an improper shutdown.

After booting normally, let it sit for awhile so it can finish
reindexing or any other background stuff can finish. Then see how a
normal reboot goes. You may also want to do a defrag.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Oops, I forgot that in there, thanks for the heads up.

 

[David]

Oops, I forgot that in there, thanks for the heads up.

yw.

Dave

 

[John Hanley]

This may sound picky, but it would help if you could state the number of
minutes from the time you pushed the power on button until your desktop was
fully displayed [in other words to be more specific about the term 'ages'].
Thanks.

 

[uvbogden]

Take a look at Repair Vista Options. You may need to run Startup Repair.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/101393-repair-vista-options-preferred-sequence.html