im currently using windows vista ultimate....mmm....the speed of startup decreased dramatically since i changed from xp.....izzit what this all abt using vista?! or thr is a way to improve it?! does updating windows too often will definitely slow things down?

upgrade your rams.

but im already using 2gb......

Did you install SP1?Heard SP1 decrease boot time.

Do anyone here buy CHIP magazine?If anyone have,please scan an article that titled how to decrease boot time from may issue and post here.They tested everyway to decrease the boot time.If I not mistaken the testers reduced 20sec of loading time in windows vista.

2gb for vista ultimate?
i think not enough la bro.

go msconfig and disable stuff that u dun need
defrag ur HDD
disable system restore
go cmd, type vsp1cln.exe to delete SP1 uninstall file

2 gb is sufficient liao, but is it shared with memory. If you have shared memory with graphics, then go for ram upgrade. Mine is 2gb with 256 nvidia GT and starts up less than 20 seconds

i jz found this link and it is quite useful.... have a look , tell me what u think after u try it......

http://www.easytweaks.com/2007/05/20/how-t...-time-in-vista/

nope it will not help...

it's only tweaking the time to display the Windows Advanced Boot Menu...

useful only if u go dual boot

Actually Vista boots slowly because it's caching the data to the RAM during startup. This is why it's slower to startup compared to XP but programs will load faster as it's already cached. Think of it as a little sacrifice for a bigger gain down the road

Agree..coz plz see ur ram usage..it's usually about 40~50% if using 2gb..but if u using SP1..surely more faster than previous one..for me lar..

It will slower ur restart boot time after you update, everytime you update you need to restart.But after it is complete next time u start ur pc it will fast again.

But for vista, they recomend you to put ur pc into sleep mode rather than shutdown, so that you won't be annoyed with the slower boot time. (my father thought that red button on the start menu was shutdown)

mmm.....what do u mean?!
sometimes my ram usage will drop to the 30%-35% range..

Wah..that mean u ram usage is better than me lar..Izzit ur use SP1 or not??I use SP1 and also updating windows but never had a problem like urs..

Use 2hdd make raid 0 it speed up alot.

2GB for Vista Ultimate is enough.

My Vista boot up faster than XP after installing all the apps. If you compared fresh XP with fresh VISTA, XP will be faster a bit. However, once you installed up all the neccessary apps, VISTA doesn't decrease in speed as much as XP.

One of the factor that slow down my XP bootup is the 3rd party firewall (Sunbelt)....in Vista i dun need 3rd party firewall coz the built in one already handle incoming and outgoing traffic (unlike XP firewall which only checks incoming traffic).

this might help:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532

thanks to Les from notebookreview.com

This post has been edited by kenji_britney: Aug 27 2008, 09:46 AM

do not shut-down.. Hibernate instead.. You'll save a lot of boot time

cleanup prefetch folder ( c:/windows/prefetch )
my vista booting after clearing all item in prefetch folder is about 5 bar loading
but if not, it will load about 10-15 bar when loading.

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