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slow bootup time - 10 minutes

slipkid — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:51:43 GMT

It takes my Vaio T1 about 10 minutes to bootup. There are not many programmes launching on start-up. The disk has been defragmented and s about 75% full. The slow boot starts immediately and sounds as if the hard disk accessing is very slow. Once booted up the machine seems same speed as always.

Anybody got any ideas?

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

febs — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:05:16 GMT

About 10 mins to boot that is a long ass time dude.I fell sorry for you:smileycry:

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

kee-lo_ — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:07:17 GMT

The usual solutions come to mind, Spyware checking, running HijackThis and posting the results to their forums, checking MSConfig for problematic startup items and remove things you don't need

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

feederfan — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:10:10 GMT

Also do a system cleanup, and use a registry cleaner to sort out your system registry, that should help.

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febs — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:10:30 GMT

Hay feederfan do you like Buck rogers cus i think that song totally rocks dude:smileydancing:

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feederfan — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:00:00 GMT

Yeah its awesome, Just a Day rocks too!, Ive seen Feeder live 5 times now and every time they kick ass!

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febs — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:09:21 GMT

Ye just a day is awsome.

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tonybeard — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:01:27 GMT

Check Nortons isn't scanning the hard drive on boot up. The real Buck Rogers 30 years over schedule and over budget

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

slipkid — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:53:43 GMT

Thanks for this helpful advice. I think I have tracked it down to a registry problem. I installed an HP office jet and the software made a real mess. The registry checker found errors with this HP memories disk software. Anybody know any free registry cleaners (I don't want to pay $30 and find this is not the problem).

Are you guys get side tracked with Buck Rogers and the like? Stick to the point people - lets focus!:smileyhappy:

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

kee-lo_ — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:41:31 GMT

Tune Up Utilities seems to be the favourite (hence Tune-Up-Tony)

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

itbroker — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:12:45 GMT

I have a similar situation, more this happened after to buy a cryptography software. First I observed the answers, and I didn't see any comment questioning on some virtual drive or if you accompanied which are the processes being executed in the moment of the initialization, that is important to consider...

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

tonybeard — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:27:06 GMT

Yep it Tune Up Tony and here is the linkTuneUtilities However a free registry cleaner is Easy CleanerEasyCleaner I keep this one on board incase I need to cross check if the registry is being looked after. Tyger Tyger got me onto this and it is a great stop gap but as he advised be careful with the other functions they seem a bit dangerous. Tune Up IMO is king as it is resource economic and really good so save your pennies it's US$30.

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

kee-lo_ — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:42:34 GMT

Yeah I would definately back up the registry before running just in case

Re: slow bootup time - 10 minutes

febs — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:12:54 GMT

I dont trust proggrames that clean ther registry as they could feck up your system completely.

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TygerTyger — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:41:37 GMT

TuneUp Utilities is easily the best, I think it's a fantastic program. Easycleaner is OK, but it doesn't detect all that much really. Another good 30 day trial RegCleaner is one by Ace Utilities (Download).

They are usually safe, as long as you create a restore point first. They all come with backups of the registry to restore to if something goes wrong anyway.