I've just got a new (Packard Bell) PC and it has Vista Home Premium. When I turn on the PC, it takes between 3 and 4 minutes for Vista to become fully loaded. Is this normal ? If not what can I do to speed things up please ? Thanks Bazza
If it's the registry you can go to Start - Run then type: msconfig and press return, go to the startup tab and take ticks out of what you don't want then apply & restart, though a word of warning, don't do this if you're unsure as it could cause problems!
Doc, My Packard Bell spec is:-
Processor: AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.10 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Regards Bazza
Make sure you've not got loads of things starting up when Vista starts. Look next to the clock and also in *Start, all programs, startup* to see what's running in the background.
Mine takes a little over a minute until it's fully started. I've turned off the windows sidebar thing too.
Doc, My Packard Bell spec is:-
Processor: AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.10 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Regards Bazza
OKay that is a cracking machine. BUT you Need More RAM. Get 4Gb.
Oooh bully for you. What a waste of time.[
The future of computing IMHO is virtual-machines.
There i no way that your computer should take that amount of time.
My New system is going to be a high end machine running A fast-boot Linux and a virtual environment. Then you can boot into your network quickly, to answer email or web. Then you can boot up multiple OS's in virtual space. Eg with something like VMware. So, if I need to edit using Word I can use XP or vista in a virtual machine.
Clearly you meant 'msconfig'.You check what's running at start up from the CMD line and use in MSCONFG.
And your evidence for this is....However, for VISTA the correct place to manage start up programmes is via Defender
Clearly you meant 'msconfig'.You check what's running at start up from the CMD line and use in MSCONFG.
And your evidence for this is....However, for VISTA the correct place to manage start up programmes is via Defender
S'funny - that's exactly what someone who doesn't know what they're talking about would say.Go and read the documentation for Vista, Defender and understand what MSCONFIG is for and I won't have to type out the evidence.
S'funny - that's exactly what someone who doesn't know what they're talking about would say.Go and read the documentation for Vista, Defender and understand what MSCONFIG is for and I won't have to type out the evidence.