10 seconds?
I would almost guarantee you selected sleep not shut down.
On my dual boot XP Pro/Vista Ultimate system with no other applications
loaded, the XP pro loaded about 15 seconds faster.
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"K86" <K86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hey
>
> I'm really sorry to bother everyone but I'm a little worried about my PC
>
> I've heard reports that some people are having issues with Vista's boot
> and
> shut down time, but normally my PC takes about 30 seconds to load Vista
> and
> as soon as I log in it's ready to use but this evening it had taken about
> 3-5
> minutes to boot
>
> I had done nothing to the PC than I normally would do, which is just
> browse
> online, listen to music, and maybe do a little work, so for this sudden
> drop
> in performance is a little strange but hat is even stranger though is what
> happened next
>
> After this long boot time I turned shut down the PC for a few minutes and
> the tried again, but this time Vista only took about 10 seconds to load,
> which, even to my normal start up is pretty fast, but once I logged in I
> got
> an awful sound coming from the HDD for a few seconds before it stopped and
> returned to normal
>
> I turned shut down the PC yet again to see about the start up time and yet
> again I got a 10 second load time, but this time without the awful HDD
> sound
>
> It just seems really strange that all of a sudden my PC took minutes to
> load
> and just a matter of seconds, but if anyone knows why this has happened
> then
> I would be very grateful
>
> Thank you
> K86
>