Hello KOSSwifty!

Originally Posted by KOSSwifty

My harddrive space is randomly being eaten every day it goes down by a 1 gig or 2 gigs and im starting to get like worried

Have a look... System Restore - disk space

Originally Posted by KOSSwifty

Is there a way to increase the speed of Vista load times like when booting and logging in.

Here ... http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/13...boot-time.html and here... Speed Up the Performance of Vista

Keep us informed!


Later Ted

Originally Posted by KOSSwifty

Well, I have done the speed up boot up time, option I suppose and I have freed up about 32 gigs of harddrive space once again thanks but my first question still stands,

Let's see about getting rid of the startup error message:

1. Press <WINDOWS_KEY>+<R> to open the RUN dialog
2. Type "MSCONFIG" (without quotes) and press <ENTER>. You'll need to respond to a UAC prompt
3. In the System Configuration Window, click on the "Startup" tab
4. Expand the width of the "Command" column so you can see the command lines better
5. Find the entries (if any) for all programs trying to run from "C:\Users", and disable them by clearing the checkmark for each particular entry
6. While you're at it, disable all other unnecessary programs, such as updaters, etc. Try not to disable entries that may be related to your anti-virus software.
7. Click OK to re-start the computer

If you disabled the correct entries, that message should be gone. If you find that you receive different error messages, then repeat the above procedure and re-enable some of the entries.

If even after all of this you still receive that obscure error message, then we'll look at other places that may be attempting to start an unauthorized program.

Also, do a scan for viruses and malware.

Originally Posted by KOSSwifty

5.Find the entries (if any) for all programs trying to run from "C:\Users", and disable them by clearing the checkmark for each particular entry


There are none running from C:\Users because I have turned them off awhile ago when I only had 1 gig of RAM.

1. Open Registry Editor. (<WINDOWS_KEY>+<R>, REGEDIT, <ENTER>).
2. Navigate to the key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"
3. What are the values for "Shell" and "UserInit"?

For now, DON'T change any values.

Originally Posted by KOSSwifty

2.Navigate to the key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"

Got to current version but there was no Winlogon just internet.

You sure about that? Without the "WinLogon" key, the computer won't start properly:

The settings you have in WinLogon should be almost the same as what you see in the above screenshot.

Originally Posted by KOSSwifty

Man my registry does not compare to what you have in yours.

Odd really, as the WinLogon key should be nearly identical for most users.

But let's try another route.

Do you remember installing/uninstalling any programs before that obscure message started popping up when you login?