i've had vista ultimate for 5 days now and had nothing but problems. after one day the boot time increased from about 1 minute to 5 minutes!!! how can this be? i installed all the windows updates and the ultimate extras...i havent fiddled with the registry or anything. does anybody know what can be causing it to boot so slow. it sits at the windows boot screen with the scrolling bar for about 3 minutes. i have tried things like defragging, disk chk and disk cleanup. nothing seems to work though.
i wish bootvis worked on vista. that did wonders for my xp boot.
if anyone is able to help me i will appreciate it very much.
thanks for the quick reply. well im not really sure where to look in the event viewer for any errors. does vista do an auto scan or defrag at startup? the only thing that i could think of that would do any type of scan is avg, but i dont think that would. nothing else of that sort is installed on my computer. and nothing apart from the sidebar and my nvidia drivers is set to startup in msconfig.
could you tell me where to look in the event log for the boot please?
Download and install HiJack This and post the output file, this will help determine what is booting up during the startup. Also running a scandisk on the computer might help to check the drive if its taking awhile to boot. The computer is not quite up to par for vista ultimate but still shouldnt take that long. I would definitely see whats in your msconfig startup to see what threw itself in startup during boot. HiJack This log will also show this.
ok thanks for the suggestion. well i will do that later on and post the log on here. im currently on my laptop and dont have a chance to use my computer with vista on it at the mo. due to an irritating little brother playing nerdy "runescape".
thanks you guys for all your help. i found out what the problem is. but it is a strange one. it seems the reason for the slow boot is because of my wirless network adaptor. its a Belkin wireless g. i have no idea why it was cause this. but i timed it. when its plugged in the boot screen takes 3 minutes. and when its unplugged it takes less than a minute:D and its even faster to the login screen too. well thanks guys. at least i've solved it now.
Vista might be scanning for new networks....or it could just be stupid Belkin drivers...or it could be an indication that something isn't working correctly....
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Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
PSU
Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
Case
ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
Cooling
Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
Keyboard
Logitech G15 (gen 2)
Mouse
Logitech MX Master (shared)
Internet Speed
AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
Operating System
Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
Manufacturer/Model
Lenovo ThinkPad E545
CPU
AMD A6-5350M APU
Motherboard
Lenovo
Memory
8 GB
Graphics card(s)
Radeon HD (Embedded)
Sound Card
Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
Monitor(s) Displays
Lenovo 15" Matte
Screen Resolution
1680 * 1050
Hard Drives
INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
thats what i was thinking johngalt. the drivers appear to be for windows 2000, and they are beta ones from belkin.com. but they are the only ones available for vista at the moment and the only ones that work. so i guess im kinda stuck with it. well thanks.
once it has booted it is perfectly fine. 
. its a Belkin wireless g. i have no idea why it was cause this. but i timed it. when its plugged in the boot screen takes 3 minutes. and when its unplugged it takes less than a minute:D and its even faster to the login screen too. well thanks guys. at least i've solved it now.
