Vista boot times

Tomed

I've had Vista x64 installed for about 2 full months now and I've
recently begun having a **** ton of problems. One being:

[image: http://images.tomed.org/boottime.jpg]

187 seconds. What the ****.

Before you ask, here are 'my specs' (. Lots
of fast memory, a fast processor, 7200RPM boot drive (not listed), and
****ing awful performance. What gets me is that the delayed boot time is
before I even see the "Welcome" screen.

My current boot time distribution:
1. BIOS does all its fancy stuff very quickly (about 6-7 seconds or so)
2. I get to my boot loader and it defaults to Vista after 5 seconds
(dual-booting Vista/Ubuntu).
3. I then see the Vista loading screen (black screen with green loading
bar) for about 4-5 seconds.
4. SIT AT COMPLETELY BLACK SCREEN FOR 160 SECONDS.
5. Welcome screen/load Startup apps (takes 10 seconds or so)

Naturally I tried doing a Safe boot to compare times. Unfortunately,
they are similar. It hangs after loading all of the necessary Windows
files and simply says something like "Loading..." for the 100+ seconds.

Additional Notes:
1. Windows Restore is completely disabled. This is having no impact on
my boot times.
2. This hasn't always been happening. It's just something that has
occurred in the past two weeks. The only major impact that I can think
of on my system has been installing some VMs with VMWare Workstation.
3. I've tried disabling Vista's TMM (multiple monitor crap) but it
didn't help.
4. I'm using a WDC2500 HD which has been known to impact the boot times
of Vista. However, Vista has always been installed on this drive and
didn't give me any problems for the first month and a half.

Any suggestions?


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Tomed

Rick Rogers

Hi,

For starters, run msconfig and enable boot logging on the boot tab. The
ntbtlog.txt file it creates may contain some clues. While you're in there,
you might want to check the services tab for any that were recently added by
VMWare or anything else.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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"Tomed" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I've had Vista x64 installed for about 2 full months now and I've
> recently begun having a **** ton of problems. One being:
>
> [image: http://images.tomed.org/boottime.jpg]
>
> 187 seconds. What the ****.
>
> Before you ask, here are 'my specs' (. Lots
> of fast memory, a fast processor, 7200RPM boot drive (not listed), and
> ****ing awful performance. What gets me is that the delayed boot time is
> before I even see the "Welcome" screen.
>
> My current boot time distribution:
> 1. BIOS does all its fancy stuff very quickly (about 6-7 seconds or so)
> 2. I get to my boot loader and it defaults to Vista after 5 seconds
> (dual-booting Vista/Ubuntu).
> 3. I then see the Vista loading screen (black screen with green loading
> bar) for about 4-5 seconds.
> 4. SIT AT COMPLETELY BLACK SCREEN FOR 160 SECONDS.
> 5. Welcome screen/load Startup apps (takes 10 seconds or so)
>
> Naturally I tried doing a Safe boot to compare times. Unfortunately,
> they are similar. It hangs after loading all of the necessary Windows
> files and simply says something like "Loading..." for the 100+ seconds.
>
> Additional Notes:
> 1. Windows Restore is completely disabled. This is having no impact on
> my boot times.
> 2. This hasn't always been happening. It's just something that has
> occurred in the past two weeks. The only major impact that I can think
> of on my system has been installing some VMs with VMWare Workstation.
> 3. I've tried disabling Vista's TMM (multiple monitor crap) but it
> didn't help.
> 4. I'm using a WDC2500 HD which has been known to impact the boot times
> of Vista. However, Vista has always been installed on this drive and
> didn't give me any problems for the first month and a half.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> --
> Tomed