Vista - 25 minute startup...then everything loads fine...

ok, if anyone has seen my previous threads you might have seen me complaining about the speed of vista. now i have a powerful PC and i JUST reinstalled vista less than one month ago and AGAIN its loading so incredibly slow its painful and im about to cry. i have literally less than 20 programs installed on a 500 GB HDD and it boots up as slow as a win '98 20 mhz cpu computer. i swear, ive never been more confused in my life. i havent reinstalled or de-installed anything like at all, i upgraded to SP2 i tried to a system restore and of course, it failed. for the past week im literally finding myself going to eat dinner and then coming down to see that my startup programs are just finihsing after 30 minutes of initial boot. once they are all loaded the pc works like a charm and nothing goes wrong. if you say i have "too many startup programs" iwill laugh because i litteraly have 4 startup programs. yes ive tried no startup programs but it doesnt help WHATSOEVER. im just onwdering how windows can corrupt files like by itself. no its not a virus. i ve checked with over 4 diferent anti viruses. sigh... if anyone has a suggestion...please help.
i dont have enough money for win 7 but idk.....

Do you have any external hard drives or devices attached?

Any of those anti-virus apps set to run a full system scan at each start-up?

Where about is the delay occurring? Ie During the POST/BIOS or after the windows loading bar appears?



(P.S The HAF 932 is not a mini-tower case. It's full sized )

yea i have an external HDD, i scan it everytime and no its not on during the bootup its almost always off. this delay occurs after the windows loading bar occurs, BIOS is fine

It sounds to me like you have a corrupted vista disc. Sounds like vital data is missing and as much as you install it, it wont be fixed.

Try the vista startup repair...it may also help, worth a try.

Go into MSConfig and change the amount of processors on boot-up to 2....default is 1 so this may also increase your speed.

What is your WEI score?...may sounds stupid but if the HDD is showing up bad there then you may have drive issues.

In your BIOS run a full disk scan to check or problems...not in Windows...use the BIOS.

Let us know if these make a difference, Vista runs on almost any PC now, I just installed 32 bit Home Premium on an old HP D325 and a Dell Latitude D500, and they barely meet the minimum specs. They run almost as good as my DV7 so you really have some issues there.

One thing worth considering is that the money you paid Microsoft was not actually for your Vista disk per se, but actually for your Vista key. My point is, if you can obtain an image of the install disk, from a friend, say, you're still OK legally as long as you use the _key_ that came with your disk. However, if the actual installation files were that corrupted it's hard to see how you'd get even as far as you have. Still, other than going down the sacrificing virgins route, it mighe be your best shot. good luck!

yeah my index score is the highest for eveything its 5.9. i did do the thing in BIOS and its not my HDD. i dunno i think im gonna have to get a new copy.