Welcome screen hangs/freezes

I'm running vista home basic 32 bit

I've done alot of tweaking to optimize performance from visual,to disabling unneeded services.And everything runs smoothly but when I boot up vista hangs at the welcome screen with the cursor busy icon frozen.This can happen for up to 2 minutes then my desktop will show and my start up items as well as rockdock takes a good bit to load.

I only have 5 start up items 2 of which are on a 90 sec delay
Rocketdock
Pc tools firewall
Avast scanner
java update
windows defender.

Is there anyway I can stop the hangups?

xadianx said:

I'm running vista home basic 32 bit

I've done alot of tweaking to optimize performance from visual,to disabling unneeded services.And everything runs smoothly but when I boot up vista hangs at the welcome screen with the cursor busy icon frozen.This can happen for up to 2 minutes then my desktop will show and my start up items as well as rockdock takes a good bit to load.

I only have 5 start up items 2 of which are on a 90 sec delay
Rocketdock
Pc tools firewall
Avast scanner
java update
windows defender.

Is there anyway I can stop the hangups?

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We start at a bad place for helping you. You have turned off things, changed things added things. All of those could possibly be the reason for the hang.

Lets start with the hardware you have and which SP is installed


Ken

Im using Vista home basic w/ service pack 2
Not sure what all hardware you wanted to know so here is the info from my system specs..
System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell inspiron 546 desktop
OS Vista home basic 32bit
CPU AMD Athlon 7550 dual core 2.50GHZ
Motherboard Dell 0F896N
Memory 3GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHZ- 3X1GB DIM M
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 3200
7200 RPM) w/ 16MB DataBurst Cache

I'll list all the tweaking I've done...

I've disabled the following services
CertPropSvc
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Function Discovery Provider Host
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
IP Helper
Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service
Netlogon
Readyboost
Smart card
Tabletpc
Workstation
Server.

I have indexing and restore turned off.Enabled advanced performace on my hardrive.I set the boot up to use 2 processors instead of 1.I manually set the CPU L2 Cache memory size.
Disabled TMM.Moved virtual memory page fileing to 2nd drive.And other than that I just adjusted the visual affects for better performance.

I originally did the tweaking in hope to find a cause for my internet issues as well as the welcome screen hang ups.