Micro Mart Forum / Microsoft Windows / Technical Forums / vista boot times / Latest Posts

RE: vista boot times

cheyworth — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:59:21 GMT

at the left hand side of the security centre the last tab says 'change the way security centre alerts me' and from this the option is the last one.

RE: vista boot times

DaveTal — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:04:11 GMT

I also found my computer was set to 1 core and ran msconfig and found an appreciable decrease in boot up times.

However, I have another query.

With UAC turned on, I cannot automatically run Hmonitor at startup even though it is in the startup menu.

With UAC turned off, I can run it automatically BUT I AM PLAGUED by the red sign from the security centre all the time.

Is there anyway of overcoming this?

RE: vista boot times

marc.knuckle — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:46:57 GMT

yes mine was on default of 1 core on vista and xp machines

RE: vista boot times

wrightrhw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:11:28 GMT

seems i'm not alone with a long boot time. i have already tried both settings for the number of cores in use. didn't make any noticeable difference. incidently both laptops were defaulted to one core. changing to two cores didn't seem to effect either machine not even core temperature wise. another thing i've tried on both is using a "clean boot". the dell was even faster.... but the fujitsu didn't show any significant change.

RE: vista boot times

Jason — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:43:13 GMT

That "Boot" setting isn't just for booting -- it's for the running of the entire OS (and applications). It should automatically be set to use all the cores you've got. You only need to mess with it if you want to deliberately switch one or more cores off.

RE: vista boot times

mattyspurs — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:40:37 GMT

It takes me 2.5minutes from turning my pc on to opening up firefox.... drives me mad at times. God knows why it takes that long as i havnt got much running in the background

RE: vista boot times

marc.knuckle — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:51:02 GMT

dont know about the comparison but on both you can make it boot with both cores if you haven't already. run msconfig, boot and it is in there somewhere

RE: vista boot times

-Wiz!- — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:39 GMT

SP1 was supposed to speed Vista up in certain circumstances. :)

vista boot times

wrightrhw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:59:42 GMT

2 laptops one dell inspiron1525 , one fujitsu/siemens amilo Li .1718.. both with vista home premium. almost identical specs. slightly different processors, both dual core, dell 1.6GHz fujitsu 1.73GHz. the dell upgraded to sp1 ok but the fujitsu always fails. the dell boots in approx 1minute but the fujitsu stuggles to get there in 3 minutes. any suggestions gratefully received. i'm fairly sure the fujitsu is not infected.