edilee012

I hadn't done a restart of my PC since installing SP2 last week....so I had to reboot to change some fan settings in the BIOS and then I noticed Vista now boots to my desktop normal but things that show in the taskbar like my Kaspersky AV, my internet connection status icon, and the couple other things like my sidebar all take an additional minute to fully become ready.

These things normally came functional within a few seconds of the desktop coming up so there is an issue and the only thing that has changed on this PC is the installation of SP2. I used to be able to open programs right away but now I have to wait till those taskbar items are ready otherwaise anything I try to open just hangs till those items are loaded.

Anyone else notice this? I have looked through the event viewer and I see "Slow bootup" warning logs but none of them direct me to the culprit, in the past things like my vid card drivers have slowed bootups but these are things I can live with since it was not noticible but what I have going on now is very noticible.

If anyone knows a way I could track down the cause, unless it is SP2 then I will just have to deal with it, reply back with any ideas.

Update: Did a search for this problem and I am not the only one noticing the problem and others are experiencing much longer boot times just as I am and sidebar slow to load. Most of the time my PC runs all the time and just resumes from standby so maybe they will optimize this soon.