expanding boot times for no reason

im currently experiencing a longer boot time for no real reason. After a fresh install i did all the usual junk. finally i decided to run a registry clean, then update my experience score. Rebooted everything was fine, then cam back after i went out & bootup took 3 times longer! I have a very powerful system & u can imagine the frustration of having to wait after it only took about 30seconds to boot b4.

I dont suspect the registry clean, all it did was remove reference to some files i had deleted hours earlier but i could be wrong.

Luckily i had made a full backup before i ran the reg cleaner etc so ill have a try at restoring & see if it happens when i do nothing to it.

p.s i had disabled some services first thing but not sure that would do anything about 2 hours afterwards.

thanks

Darren

Ask windows to write a bootlog through Msconfig, reboot and attach your bootlog to your next post. (maybe some drivers problems).

its something to do with c\windows\prefetch

after emptying it i get a realy short boot time but expanded logon time 2 min almost. But when i restore those files i get really long boot time & short logon???

i'm having same kind of issue [posted in performance]

i have two start up entries [sidebar and rocketdock], so it's not like my machine is getting crippled under crap starting up.. and even if it was my machine isn't a sloth.

I find the boot time is slooow at the screen where you get the "loading" animation bar. It takes a good 30 secs.

I wondered if there was some kind of CHKDSK going on, but it seems i have driver issues - although all my drivers are vista, and all my hardware works. so.

any help?

although you might only have 1 or two *applications* starting up, you will also have tons of services starting up - and if you have added items to the task scheduler, for example (weekly scans / daily scans, etc) then those will be adding processes to the services as well.

I highly recommend that you get Process Explorer and see what is *really* running on your system.

haha i shoudl've said, i also have "Selected" Services running at start up - i.e nothing i don't need/want to e.g schedulers etc.