Hi daretofail, and welcome to the vista forums,

when you say you restored vista to the time before was this by un-installing the software?

it may be that the software has left a some component set to run at stertup which is causing the delay.

you may want to check your start-up entries

Startup Programs - Enable or Disable

Hi daretofail,

the way I understand the start-up process some if not all of the things that apply to all users load during the time that the green bar is displayed, so, if your installation of netspeeder has left a remnant in the all users startup that points to a non-existent exe file or such then that would cause the delay you see while it searches for the exe

this would possibly be limited to just an entry in the registry.

you may want to check the system using Autoruns which is more advanced than vista's built-in systems.

AutoRuns for Windows

unfortunately this sort of remnant can be difficult to find

you should also defragment you hard drive...

in vista, there is a option that you can make the computer use multiple cores at startup. this only applies to computers with dual core and right the way upto the new 6 core CPU's.. even thought windows is pre configured to use as many cores as it has available, you dont get the full taste of what it can do unless the user changes the following settings

click start menu, and in the search box, type "msconfig" and hit enter.

then click on the "BOOT" tab & then click on advanced options

a box then appears. in the top left hand corner, you will see "number of processors". put a TICK in this box and then select the highest number available in the dropdown box below "number of processors...... also put a TICK in the "Detect HAL" box.. then click OK

you will now go back to the screen where the advanced options button is located.. before closing this box, put a TICK in the "make all boot settings permanent" box (located to the bottom left corner of the window)

you computer will now be slightly faster at startup..

you can also speed up performance by enabling advanced performance on your hard drive (note. you will lose data if you have this enabled and you have a sudden powercut)

go to the start menu, in the search box, type "device manager" and hit enter

then select the plus(+) sign next to "disk drives" tab and then right click on your hard drive and click properties

then select policies

you will see four options (you may be un-able to change the top two, but this is normal)

put a TICK in the bottom two ("enable write caching on the disk" & "enable advanced performance")

my computer went 30 to 40 seconds quicker on startup with the two windows features i have just showed you....

use the following script to find out how long it takes now and then follow the instructions on how to speed up your comuter and then re-run the speed tester to find out how much time you have shaved off

just copy and paste to notepad and then save it to your desktop save the file with the name "bootspeed"
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Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
Dim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile, MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiff
MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"
KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\RestartTime"
AppName = "ReBoot-Time"
Set Wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
if Result = "" then
MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
Wsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
Wsh.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0
else
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA
Wsh.RegDelete KeyB
TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
MsgBox "Your computer reboots in " & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
end if
wscript.Quit
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just watch you dont get a speeding ticket!!!!!!! haha