Why does it take 15mins for Vista to start?

[Guest]

Its taking 15mins or more for Vista to boot up! I'm running intel core 2 duo
2.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, everthing was great when I first installed, now its taking
forever! Any solutions?

I installed a download program from EA, could this have caused this?

It is agonizing to wait for it to start up. Also, when this happend, Vista
would not shut down my case, vista would shut down, but not cut the power!!
Why?

 

[Michael Solomon]

Its taking 15mins or more for Vista to boot up! I'm running intel
core 2 duo
2.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, everthing was great when I first installed, now
its taking forever! Any solutions?

I installed a download program from EA, could this have caused this?

It is agonizing to wait for it to start up. Also, when this happend,
Vista would not shut down my case, vista would shut down, but not cut
the power!! Why?

Clearly, the first thing to check would be that EA program, remove it using
Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, reboot and see if that resolves the
issue; because this is s startup issue, it might be best if you shutdown
completely, wait a few minutes then boot the system and see if that resolves
it.

If not, if you are running Windows Defender, someone else posted they had a
similar problem and they stopped it from checking certain files when the
system boots...sorry, I don't have the post but Defender could be the issue.
I beta tested it for awhile and I seem to recall a similar issue myself. If
I find the post, I'll post the information.

 

[Adam Albright]

Its taking 15mins or more for Vista to boot up! I'm running intel core 2 duo
2.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, everthing was great when I first installed, now its taking
forever! Any solutions?

I installed a download program from EA, could this have caused this?

It is agonizing to wait for it to start up. Also, when this happend, Vista
would not shut down my case, vista would shut down, but not cut the power!!
Why?

Wow, that's a awfully long time. No, it shouldn't take anywhere near
that long to boot. A 'long boot' woudl maybe be a couple, three
minutes, tops. Anything much beyond that something is wrong. Mine
takes just over a minute.

All kinds of things can cause an excessively long boot time. Look up
'System Restore' in Vista's help system and consider doing a restore
to a point which will restore your system to what it was PRIOR to you
installed that suspect application. This should not effect any of your
data or personal files, it will undo installing new application for
example. Help gives specifics.

If your system booted normally in the past, chances are something you
added is what's causing it to crawl now. The quick fix usually is
reverting back to a restore point when things weren't slugish.

 

[Michael Solomon]

Its taking 15mins or more for Vista to boot up! I'm running intel
core 2 duo
2.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, everthing was great when I first installed, now
its taking forever! Any solutions?

I installed a download program from EA, could this have caused this?

It is agonizing to wait for it to start up. Also, when this happend,
Vista would not shut down my case, vista would shut down, but not cut
the power!! Why?

I found the post but it was a shutdown issue. Nonetheless, if Adam's
suggestion in this thread to ues System Restore and mine to remove the EA
application don't resolve the issue, if you are using Defender, some
application might be causing the system to hang on startup, I've copied the
entire post to which I'm referring below:

"I figured out what the problem is with VISTA taking for ever to shut down.
Go into your DEFENDER, click TOOLS on the top line, then click on SOFTWARE
EXPLORER.

There you will find a list of ALL of your STARTUP programs.

What I did was DISABLE on STARTUP, all of my ROXIO or CREATIVE software
programs, and I'm having no more problems shutting down.

Take a look at the list of startup programs, there might be a program in
that list that is preventing you from shutting down. Just DISABLE the
program. It only gets disabled from the STARTUP file, you can still use
which
ever program you disable by just going to it and double clicking on it like
you regularly do to start a program. GOOD LUCK!!! "

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help gentlemen, I've tried the system restore once, didn't
work. I went into my defender settings and disabled any suspect processes,
still nothing. There is still another option in system restore that I will
try, hopefully that works.

Once again thanks.

 

[Michael]

Have you asked the system if it knows what is taking so long to startup?
Control Panel
Performance Information and tools
AdvancedTools (in left pane)

At the top is performance issues. At least some times, programs that take to
long to start or shutdown are listed here.

Michael

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help gentlemen, I've tried the system restore once, didn't
work. I went into my defender settings and disabled any suspect processes,
still nothing. There is still another option in system restore that I will
try, hopefully that works.

Are you on a network domain?
What part of the start up takes a long time? do you log on and then it takes
a long time or does it take along time to get to the log on screen?

 

[Guest]

it takes forever to get to the log on screen, then no time at all from there.

 

[Mark]

todays standards. I would suggest at least 2GB as a minimum. You should
also probably try and run a virus and spyware scan.

 

[measekite's psychiatrist]

answer lame

if 1 gb = 15 mins

then 512 mb that MS proposes minimum would take 15 years

I propose one vistabyte ram that equals to one googol in the power of
googolplex ram

that would need more space that the known universe could fit , full or ram
sticks for vista to work properly

I propose you sticking your head back up your ass where it belongs. Maybe
your system would take 15 years, but you have an Etch-A-Sketch.

 

[brummyfan]

answer lame

if 1 gb = 15 mins

then 512 mb that MS proposes minimum would take 15 years

I propose one vistabyte ram that equals to one googol in the power of
googolplex ram

that would need more space that the known universe could fit , full or ram
sticks for vista to work properly

You could try following this thread:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html