A number of problems... Start with Slow boot

Hey, i recently formatted and reinstalled windows on my computer and for some reason i have had nothing but trouble since.... a run down of my problems, i had 4gb of ram now she will only run on 2gb, she used to be really fast at booting up and shuting down and now i can flick her on and have my breakfast before she has even thought about doing anything. I had a nosey in the event logger and amongst the hundred of errors daily, the one mark BOOT ERROR, is this one.... does this mean anything to anyone?

Or does anyone have any ideas? no viruses, hard drives are defragged and check disked.... for the record when she is on she is fine, no problems, just booting up and shutting down it starts playing up


Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 115947ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 21/03/2010 08:31:50

System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance [ Guid] {cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}
EventID 100 Version 1 Level 2 Task 4002 Opcode 34 Keywords 0x8000000000010000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2010-03-21T08:37:31.704Z
EventRecordID 954 - Correlation [ ActivityID] {00000030-0000-0000-2F9C-11F4D0C8CA01}
- Execution [ ProcessID] 1592 [ ThreadID] 1480
Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Computer LH-LO5ECRXRF1P3 - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-19

- EventData

BootTsVersion 2

BootStartTime 2010-03-21T08:31:50.702Z

BootEndTime 2010-03-21T08:37:11.547Z

SystemBootInstance 198

UserBootInstance 195

BootTime 115947

MainPathBootTime 99347

BootKernelInitTime 20

BootDriverInitTime 64378

BootDevicesInitTime 20778

BootPrefetchInitTime 47332

BootPrefetchBytes 604119040

BootAutoChkTime 0

BootSmssInitTime 5867

BootCriticalServicesInitTime 770

BootUserProfileProcessingTime 512

BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 3

BootExplorerInitTime 2881

BootNumStartupApps 6

BootPostBootTime 16600

BootIsRebootAfterInstall false

BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0

BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0

BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0

BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0

BootIsDegradation false

BootIsStepDegradation false

BootIsGradualDegradation false

BootImprovementDelta 0

BootDegradationDelta 0

BootIsRootCauseIdentified false

Thanks in advance, all advice appreciated... since i have squat...

Hello Sebo001, welcome to Vista Forums!



Have a look at the tutorial at the link below to see if there's some things you can clean out of the "Startup File", where progs/apps are added to have them start when the PC is booted up. You may have too many things trying to start all at once.

Troubleshooting with MSCONFIG - Windows 7 Forums

I have had a nosey into msconfig, i deselected everything and this still dosent improve my boot time,

Its freezes on the green bar that whizzes accross... if that helps?

Thanks Seb

Hello again Seb.



I'm fresh out of ideas at present, keep checking back though as someone else may happen along to help you out.



Have a look at the tutorial at the link below.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70563-boot-up.html?ltr=B

lets dig up more info, login your admin account , then start up msconfig and select the boot tab and check the boot log box. apply and then search for ntblog.txt delete that if found as it,ll be old data and then reboot. open up ntblog.txt and copy the new info here.

okay, for your RAM. Is the vista that you installed, a 32 bit or 64bit os?

If it is 64 bit and u only using 2gb of it go to:

msconfig

boot tab

advanced options

look at the check box that says memory usage or something like that, and check it and set t to 4,000 mb

also do that same with the processor part except set it to the amount of cores that u have.

uncheck everything from start up, go to Black Viper's Web Site and follow their services gide under services.msc

check your drivers, make sure that you have vista sp1 and/or sp2, if u only have sp1, update to sp2.