Vista - Very Slow Boot Up

And run Ad-aware to get rid of the data miner cookies, which connect with advertiser servers and can slow down your computer booting up. Data miner cookies try to connect to the advertiser server while our computer boots. Ten minute boot times is about right for around 100-200 of these things. One of my sisters have over 300 of them on her computer last month.

Basically its where all that junk mail comes from. A data miner cookie, say for a major department store when you visit their web site, gets placed on your computer. The advertiser server sees a jump in the number of people visiting that department store's web site. Mostly no personal info is gathered. An order to the nearest junk mail printer, then the weekly coupons in the newspaper now include one for that major department store.

If you've run 5 full scans with different anti-virus apps and done every step in my guide from step 2 onwards and its still taking 10 minutes to boot up then there is something seriously wrong.

You should run a System File Checker scan as its sounds like your vista has got corrupted.

Hi
JimJoe - I tried running Ad-Aware but that only picked up 7 problems, which I deleted but that didn't make it boot up any quicker.

Stew - I ran "sfc /verifyonly" first and that said "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations". I then ran "sfc /scannow" and that said "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them". I followed the link to the CBS.Log but I didn't understand any of it since it was so long.
Does this mean there is something wrong with the start up files?
Do you think I should run windows from the disk and run it via the repair function?
Thanks

The results mean that files on your pc are damaged and are most likely the cause of your long boot ups.

In the CBS.log use Find to check for cannot repair and Find Next to find the other files that cant be repaired. Write down the names of those files. Then go to Repair Vista Options and follow the steps to fix your pc.

You may have to access the System Files on Your Vista Install DVD to copy good files to your OS to replace the corrupt files. If you have to then use this link for doing that:

Access Vista DVD Files

Hi Stew
I just ran "sfc /verifyonly" and "sfc /scannow" again to make sure I was correct. this time they both came up saying that they didn't find any integrity violations. I ran vista via the disk and choose the repair function to see if that would help. It said that there wasn't any problems so I restarted the computer. Now when I boot the computer up it shows me a list of services which are being loaded on a black background, but it still takes a long time to start up.

Any more ideas because it is still booting up very slow?