Speed up Vista Boot Time

[Prison Gate]

Buy some more Ram or replace your ram with better which is better.

Or you can spend around 80 bucks on 2 1gig flash drives that support Ready Boost and it's kinda like virtual Ram.

[sonic]

It is not possible to make it in 30s

but maybe to 1 min 10s !!

[commonyd]

It is not possible to make it in 30s

but maybe to 1 min 10s !!

He's right. The BIOS startup screen and the XP and Vista bootscreens take up 30 seconds just by themselves, there is NO WAY you can have your desktop fully loaded in 30 seconds and the harddrive light to shut off completely.

[davejohns]

I run vista Ultimate with a Huuuuugggge amount of progs, i dont disable any windows features and allow everything on start up. My PC takes 19.4 seconds from power off to desktop.

After you have done all the basic stuff, you should do this:

Go into Vista event viewer-expand categories in the left-hand tree until you reach the Diagnostic-Performance\Operational entry.

To get to the startup problems, click Filter Current Log in the Actions pane on the right. Type 100.199 in the include exclude section, events 100-199 are specifically related to Boot Performance. Also use these settings:

Click on filter current log to the right hand side;

Logged: Any time
Event level: Tick all apart from Verbose and informtaion
Even sources: Diagnostics and performance
User: <all users>
Computer <all Computers>

The measurements are in milliseconds, so forget last three digits to get a reading in seconds. If your PC is taking a full 2 minutes. What's happening during that time? One way to find some info is to look for other events with the same time stamp.

The event log will show this possible problem - a service that should take 5 seconds to start took an extra 35 seconds. If this is a one-time incident, its not really important, but if it happens again, it's a clue to look for problems in the Services console.

Just dont be afraid to look around, it could save you some cash:D

The event viewer also provides a wealth of information on many other things.

Id advise you to check what i suggested before you do upgrading etc etc

(sorry if you already know this)

[nol888]

Only problem is that ultimate has more "administrative" features than home premium, and more advanced ones too.

[davejohns]

THis "Should" be available in all versions, however im not 100% sure of this.

[chewett]

my xp takes a min to boot up and another min for it to able to start programs without crashing them

[Death Zone]

Thanks for that info guys , it really helpful