Vista - slow start up/booting vista 64

it takes 52 secs for my laptop vista 64 Home Premium to pop the log in screen & 58 after log in to load 8 start up programs. My desktop running on XP Pro does all that in 45-52 secs total.
I've defragged hard drive, registry, killed aero, reduced opening window time, readjusted unwanted vista service (SP2- safe) program according to Black Viper and I don't see why I have to wait more than a minute loading to start working.
Is Windows 7 going to take that long too? What else is there to be done to reduce loading time? Brink!! Where are you?

"sroblesc64" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:08a33a0f34064352afc20b619a2e65f2@xxxxxx-gateway.com...It takes 66 seconds on my laptop for Vista32 Home Premium to load to the
desktop, and another 36 seconds for me to open anything (Windows Mail was my
test). That was starting from the time my Gateway POST showed. Don't know if
64-bit is supposed to be faster or not, but I think Vista is pretty much a
dog anyhow. Aero is running on mine, and I left most of my services alone (I
tried the Black Viper suggestions, but didn't make that much difference).
The one thing I did turn off because I found it irritating as hell was the
UAC messaging. Holy crap!!

Check in the event log for any warnings or errors. Do you have the latest
chipset and video drivers? What CPU do you have and how much RAM? Mine's a
Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile with 4GB RAM and a dedicated video card. Once I'm up
and running, it's plenty speedy, but I agree with you that XP on my desktop
starts up much, much faster.

SC Tom

Windows 7 is a LOT faster at just about everything in Vista (including boot
times)

"sroblesc64" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:08a33a0f34064352afc20b619a2e65f2@xxxxxx-gateway.com...

I have an HP DV7-1243CL w/AMD Turion mobile X2 RM 72 @ 2.10GHz. 4Gb Ram, ATI Radeon HD 3200 256Mb dedicated
How/where can I switch to Windows 7 NOW? I'd try XP64, but I'm afraid of support, drivers.

"sroblesc64" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:894a4aa9823ceed1ca8705b587e22486@xxxxxx-gateway.com...You can get the release candidate here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win.../download.aspx

You can download the upgrade advisor here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

to see if your machine will have any driver/software issues. You shouldn't
have any hardware issues- your notebook is a little better than mine, I
think.

SC Tom

"...Check in the event log for any warnings or errors...".

Tks for RC info. I viewed it as MS earlier today.
This is what I found in the event log as critical/Diagnostics-Performance/Event 100?Boot Performance Monitoring: Any idea how to fix?
-System
-Provider[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance[ Guid] {cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}
EventID100Version1Level1Task4002Opcode34Keywords0x8000000000010000-TimeCreated[ SystemTime] 2009-07-17T15:08:54.061Z
EventRecordID474-Correlation[ ActivityID] {00000001-0000-0000-747C-EF20F006CA01}
-Execution[ ProcessID] 1888[ ThreadID] 2156
ChannelMicrosoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/OperationalComputerXXXXXXXXXX-Security[ UserID] XXXXXXXX

-EventData
BootTsVersion2BootStartTime2009-07-17T15:06:14.796ZBootEndTime2009-07-17T15:08:49.631ZSystemBootInstance81UserBootInstance69BootTime114298MainPathBootTime46898BootKernelInitTime25BootDriverInitTime2566BootDevicesInitTime7823BootPrefetchInitTime59010BootPrefetchBytes597319680BootAutoChkTime0BootSmssInitTime10936BootCriticalServicesInitTime12620BootUserProfileProcessingTime4793BootMachineProfileProcessingTime3602BootExplorerInitTime7116BootNumStartupApps2BootPostBootTime67400BootIsRebootAfterInstallfalseBootRootCauseStepImprovementBits0BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits0BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits0BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits0BootIsDegradationfalseBootIsStepDegradationfalseBootIsGradualDegradationfalseBootImprovementDelta0BootDegradationDelta0BootIsRootCauseIdentifiedfalse

"sroblesc64" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:08a33a0f34064352afc20b619a2e65f2@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Hello,
Have a desktop with Windows Vista sp2 64 bit, has the same start up time,
110-120 seconds. Removed or disable many items, such as UAC, indexing, aero,
prefetch, system restore plus more, still have about 40 processes at start
up.
Installed Windows 7 beta (clean install) on a 32 bit unit that had Windows
XP SP3. Start up was about the same as XP, 42 -45 seconds.
take care.
beamish.