I'll stop hijacking another thread.

Vista SP1
4 gb
2.5ghz duo

latest bios, no startup items (except for anti-virus and my BT mouse)

3.5 minutes to get to log on screen
1.5 minutes from there until it's completely booted (HD slows, vista's "processing circle" goes away, cpu usage <8%)

it used to completely boot/load <1 min. No recent HW/SW changes.

suggestions?

8/15/2008 2:59:46 PM

format c:

8/15/2008 3:09:47 PM

NOT an option. is that your favorite advice?

8/15/2008 3:10:35 PM

why isn't it an option?

and it's great advice, haha

8/15/2008 3:11:14 PM

well it is a good option for my old laptop, but not my new one. And I have a few programs from work that I'd rather not lose and getting them back on my computer would be way too much of a hassle, thanks to the IT guy. And I'm not into the whole stealing software thing.

8/15/2008 3:13:51 PM

I know this is for XP, but thought I'd post it anyways:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootVis

8/15/2008 4:01:06 PM

if only they had that for vista

8/15/2008 4:02:09 PM

vista has built-in diagnostics for boot-timing. go into the performance and monitoring tools, and start tracking, restart, open the logs and see where it's lagging

8/15/2008 5:00:54 PM

is there something similar to that for shutdown lag issues?

8/15/2008 5:10:56 PM

well no shit....

figured it out. apparently it's trying to boot/load something from my external HD. I unplugged it and bam! boots/loads <1 min.

^^i just took a look at the boot logs. there's a bunch of errors/messages for booting problems. I'll keep a look out on them, but I'm thinking the ext HD thing may have been the cause of all the problems.

is there a way to figure out why and what my computer is trying to load from my external during boot?

and I just plugged my external back in, and something is constantly accessing my ext hd....
I just don't know what it is

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 6:32 PM. Reason : .]

8/15/2008 6:30:15 PM

superboost or whatever its called?

8/15/2008 7:17:08 PM

readyboost? it shouldn't be - months ago, it said that the drive wasn't able to be used for readyboost, not that I wanted to.

i've tried checking to make sure, but I can't seem to find anything related to readyboost

8/15/2008 7:19:10 PM

definitely wasn't readyboost. I had it disabled

8/15/2008 7:48:19 PM

so is there anyway to see why my computer is trying to boot/load something from my external?

8/15/2008 10:52:34 PM

Look in your bios to see what your boot drive hierarchy is

8/15/2008 11:00:19 PM

Quote :

"FORMAT MOTHERFUCKIN C:"

8/15/2008 11:05:24 PM

internal, external, nic, cd, floppy

Quote :

"NO FORMAT MOTHERFUCKING C"

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 11:06 PM. Reason : .]

8/15/2008 11:05:41 PM