Vista - ReBoot Time

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You can find it here ...

Boot Up Time

You can also use this to post 'shots' here at Vista forums ...

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Later Ted

Another way of uploading your pics is download this handy sidebar gadget called Gshot

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Hi Iceflame,

Wow you have a lot of things coming at startup. You can safely take them all out except the operating system, your firewall, Windows Defender and your antivirus ( I guess this is the Symantec stuff ). Then check your startup time - you might be surprised.

You can create shortcuts for your applications either in the quick launch bar ( to access them quickly ) OR on your desktop OR in your start menu ( click start > customise and you can change the number of recent programs to display to 0 - you will have a nice big space to put shortcuts in).

Programs you don't need that often don't need a separate shortcut created as they can be accessed from start >all programs. Try not to have several shortcuts for each program, as they all have to be loaded at startup too.

Things like acrobat reader should spring into action when you open a pdf document, it doesn't need to be started already. If you need Microsoft Word and Office and Quickbook etc. to be up and running , then add them back in, but I think you will prefer to start them as and when you need them.

SIW2

Hello Everyone
heres my Boot time =]



i thought it took longer then that but i guess i was wrong lol

thanks !!!

Thanks a lot

Should I cancel any other startup programs? If you have time, can you please list them by name.

Hi,

I'm not sure what those 3 Intel entries are - you can find out by hovering your mouse pointer over them - i have Intel drivers for my motherboard, but they are already installed and don't show in msconfig. Try taking them out and you'll probably find you don't need them in startup either.

After that, it's housekeeping time. You can delete stuff you don't need like the sample pictures , media and videos you'll find if you check the folders of the same name. If you have an LCD screen you don't need a screensaver so you can set that to none - a screensaver is just another program that has to be loaded up.
Then do a disk cleanup - check the tutorials as to how you can regain space from Hibernation and by deleting all system restore points except the last one. Run diskcleaner then Defrag - suggest the auslogics defrag., free from www.auslogics.com. I also like ccleaner - get the free slim version at
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/bui...wnloading-slim
and let him attach to your recycle bin ( he doesn't need a shortcut - right click the recycle bin and there he is ).

Have Fun

SIW2

Here is mine.

That is incredibly fast! What system are you using and how have you set it up? Let us know - we may learn something.

SIW2

Those are probably Intel NIC related software....