Solved Vista takes 445 sec to start

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PeterDorr

On my way 2 advanced
I just installed a fresh Vista x64 on a (temporary, just for the fun/experimenting) SATA disk, while I wait for my new SAS drives to arrive.

After the install it all was ok-ish (experience index on the drive was only 2.3, so pretty slow compared to my old XP machine). The rest of my system all shows 5.9's

But after fiddling around with new drivers and tips and trick I learned from this forum, it all went downhill from here. Navigation is very sluggish and the boot up time is 445 seconds (!) I did about everything I could find on this forum to speed up the OS, but no luck.

Is there a tool available that helps me to find out which process/driver is causing the delay? Something like Bootvis for XP.

Thanks,
Peter

ps. @Brink. I am really impressed and very happy with the content and setup of this forum :D Keep it up !
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP XW8600
    CPU
    2 x Quad Core 3,16 Ghz (Xeon 5460)
    Memory
    16 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Ati 4870HD Toxic
    Sound Card
    Realtek (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Apple cinema 30"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1600
    Hard Drives
    System Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 450GB SAS, 15K RPM Raid0 4 x Seagate Cheetah T10 300 GB SAS, 15K RPM
Woehaaaa, I have been playing around for over 2 days now and only after I posted my msg. I got a brainwave....

In the Bios, I changed the SATA controller into a single IDE controller instead of SATA Raid. And now my disk performance is at 5.2
So very workable now.

Anyway, a program as suggested above is still very welcome.
Peter
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP XW8600
    CPU
    2 x Quad Core 3,16 Ghz (Xeon 5460)
    Memory
    16 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Ati 4870HD Toxic
    Sound Card
    Realtek (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Apple cinema 30"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1600
    Hard Drives
    System Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 450GB SAS, 15K RPM Raid0 4 x Seagate Cheetah T10 300 GB SAS, 15K RPM
PERFMON is the "swiss army knife" troubleshooting utility for performance issues, but startup and logon perf analysis is generally tricky. It depends on where the machine appears to be taking its time. If its, for example, quick to get to the ctrl-alt-del screen but slow from there to the desktop, you could enable userenv logging:

How to enable user environment debug logging in retail builds of Windows

Otherwise, if it's slow even to get to ctrl-alt-del, you could try MSCONFIG and AutoRuns, but that's trial-and-error. More deterministic boot perf analysis generally requires a debugger and someone fluent with driver development and architecture to drive it.

Given the BIOS tweak you made, it's almost certain that nothing short of a debugger would have explained the extremely slow startup times. I'm actually somewhat surprised your machine was booting at all.
 

My Computer

System One

i use tuneup 2008 and the free version of tweakV1 and win bubbles and just played about with the setting and when i boot vista now it skips the welcome screen and is ready to go even with alot of startup programs to( about 15 seconds from when windows starts loading .... i deffo havent got the best pc on these forums but i bet mine boots faster than these pumped up comps:D
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Apire m3201
    CPU
    AMD Phenom 9150e Quad core processer 1.8ghz
    Memory
    4gig corsair 800 mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 4870 512mbs gdr5
    Monitor(s) Displays
    32"
    Screen Resolution
    1920-1080
    Hard Drives
    320gb
    PSU
    ocz extreme 600 watt
    Internet Speed
    4.0mbs
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