topic Re: Slow Start up in PCs & Accessories

Slow Start up

dabm — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:06:08 GMT

Hi

I have a VAIO FE21-H, and am pretty happy with it. It used to load windows very quickly. However, start up time now is very long, with windows taking a bit of time to load all of the relevant applications. I'm not too sure why its taking so much longer now, as I have even increased the RAM to 2GB from 1GB. I recently checked, and found that my hard disk is quite fragemented (31%). Could this be the reason? I know hard disk fragmentation slows the computer down, but I did not know it had such an effect.

If anyone knows why windows seems to be slow in starting up, please let me know

The computer is generally fine once windows has loaded everything, even quicker because of the increased RAM. But just takes a while to start up fully.

Thanks
Pete

Re: Slow Start up

Blencogo — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:21:49 GMT

Hi Pete - it sounds like your Vaio needs a good Spring Clean !!

Slow startup could be caused by many things - here are a few to try: -

1. Check you are using the correct up to date driver for your Graphics Card - this can cause this sort of delay.
2. Delete the contents of the folder C:\Windows\Prefetch. This partly loads programs you use frequently but if you uninstall something it takes time as it tries to find it. Files in here can also become corrupted or have poor links which again can take up time.
3. Download the free (for 30 days) version of Tune-Up Utilities from www.tune-up,com and run
a The Disc Cleanup
b The Registry Cleanup
c The Registry Defrag
d Startup Manager - see what programs load on boot. You can disable a lot of them that are not needed - for example you will probably a lot of programs trying to load on startup. Adobe Acrobat tries to load programs as does Nero and several others. Just uncheck the box next to programs that are not System programs.
e System Optimiser.
4. When you have done this cleanup it is time to Defragment the hard drive - 31% is quite high and needs attention. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disc Defragmenter. I suspect it will take a while to run on your Vaio as it has a lot of work to do !!

Good Luck

Re: Slow Start up

Carelino — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:06:29 GMT

Blencogo is giving you great tips. Use them...there's only one more actually two things you could do....

Diskkeeper has a feature to help you laptop boot faster. Diskkeeper can also defragment your harddisk.

Oh the second thing start using hibernate instead of shutting down your laptop it's worth gold....saves you a lot of time...

Re: Slow Start up

tman16 — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:46:40 GMT

hi,

i would say you need to stop some of your programs starting at startup, some you might not even know are starting up to do this go to: Start - Run - Type:"msconfig" - Startup tab. Then scroll down the list unchecking the programs you dont waant to load at startup.

Re: Slow Start up

Carelino — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:13:03 GMT

Hi Pete - it sounds like your Vaio needs a good Spring Clean !!

Slow startup could be caused by many things - here are a few to try: -

1. Check you are using the correct up to date driver for your Graphics Card - this can cause this sort of delay.
2. Delete the contents of the folder C:\Windows\Prefetch. This partly loads programs you use frequently but if you uninstall something it takes time as it tries to find it.  Files in here can also become corrupted or have poor links which again can take up time.
3. Download the free (for 30 days) version of Tune-Up Utilities from www.tune-up,com and run 
a The Disc Cleanup
b The Registry Cleanup
c The Registry Defrag
d Startup Manager - see what programs load on boot.  You can disable a lot of them that are not needed - for example you will probably a lot of programs trying to load on startup. Adobe Acrobat tries to load programs as does Nero and several others.  Just uncheck the box next to programs that are not System programs.
e System Optimiser.
4. When you have done this cleanup it is time to Defragment the hard drive - 31% is quite high and needs attention. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disc Defragmenter.  I suspect it will take a while to run on your Vaio as it has a lot of work to do !!

Good Luck

READ.....you would say...he already said

Re: Slow Start up

Thalamus. — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:30:58 GMT

Hi tman16,

Merry Christmas and welcome to Club Vaio..

Thank you for trying to help with your first post, hope you stick around..

Re: Slow Start up

kee-lo_ — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:48:33 GMT

Thank you for trying to help with your first post, hope you stick around..

He will

Re: Slow Start up

steve_parkes — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:32:50 GMT

Look at your processes and if svchost is using a lot of memory then disable the auto update function of windows. This will return the boot back to its normal times. You will have to run update once a week from the start menu

Steve

Re: Slow Start up

ddf — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:59:42 GMT

One recommandation: i felt my Vaio was slow at startup also but didnt bother too much (was like 2-3 minutes). But i have lately been struggling with what i believed was sound problem (see Realtek sound problem thread), and it turned out to be something completely different (Direct Memory Access setup).

When i applied a solution proposed by Blencongo, who is a Star with a massive S, it solved all evil: no more sound problem, and start up is roughly six zillions times faster. Well as it is supposed to be indeed!

So maybe you should check the IDE settings as proposed in the Realtek sound problem thread?

br
david

Re: Slow Start up

pariope41 — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:07:16 GMT

Solution = Hitachi Sata 2,5 7200rpm y 16cache...more faster of the market....awesone

Re: Slow Start up

peebles — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:22:43 GMT

hi,

i would say you need to stop some of your programs starting at startup, some you might not even know are starting up to do this go to: Start - Run - Type:"msconfig" - Startup tab. Then scroll down the list unchecking the programs you dont waant to load at startup.

I have gone through your suggestion but there are a lot of applications in the list. How do I know which ones I can get rid of and which ones I should keep marked?
Thanks

Re: Slow Start up

rich912 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:13:24 GMT

Hi peebles,

In addition to Blencogo’s excellent advice (above), you may find the Startup Delayer (freeware) utility of interest.

Re: Slow Start up and shut down

marc_garraway — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:20:10 GMT

Hi i have a slow log in,

I find that my pc start up ok, and i get to the windows XP log in screen. Enter my password and takes ages to log in to windows, then takes ages to load everything. I have a SZ2XP.

Also i have had problems with shutting down. It takes forever to shut down!!

Anyone help?

Re: Slow Start up

loathsome — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:16:12 GMT

Hi,

Download a program called BootVis and from the «Trace» menu run «Optimize System». I run this program frequently, and it helps a lot.

BootVis can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/BootVis-Download-3465.html

Good luck,
loathsome+

Re: Slow Start up

desaputra — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:10:28 GMT

Hi, I've got SZ4MN/B with Windows Vista... but it's seem I have to wait about 5 min for fully loaded. Compare with my wife's ASUS W5Fe... just only 2 min form hitted ON button to fully loaded. Why???.... SZ4 with 2MB RAM compare with ASUS just only 1MB RAM...

Re: Slow Start up

desaputra — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:13:31 GMT

Just curious... is it due to Sony Vaio has a bundles of VAIO bla... bla... bla... software ??? or something doesn't right with my VAIO???

Re: Slow Start up

George.m — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:30:51 GMT

your vaio has 2GB not 2MB loool i never used a 1mb pc only 64mb . And you maybe have a lot of programs to load in the startup try the tips that are given in page 1 and if you dont see any difference and you want more performance maybe you have to make a downgrade to windows xp.

Re: Slow Start up

desaputra — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:03:07 GMT

Thanks george.m... typo... just want to udate here, I uninstall most of the VAIO program... it boost up my machine...

Re: Slow Start up

rob_bw — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:27:32 GMT

Just curious... is it due to Sony Vaio has a bundles of VAIO bla... bla... bla... software ??? or something doesn't right with my VAIO???

Vaio sounds fine, just sounds like the usual HD full of pre-installed apps and gizmo's that are causing you a headache.

A lot of the programs load at startup so that they load quicker (like acrobat, quicktime), enable hardware functionality (like touchpad driver, adobe photo import, wlan switcher etc etc), offer hardware/software monitoring/updating (vaio update) or provide some kind of service (like the MSDE installation, and soundstage server).

you have two options.

1. use msconfig to disable statup apps that you dont regularly use, and uninstall those you'll never use. Use google to look-up the process or executable names for the ones you dont know.

2. Wipe the laptop back to scratch. Sony have made this easier since at least the purchase of my FE-31H. You can now recover individual applications from the recovery DVD set - allowing you to recover just the stuff you want to, and leaving all the other dross off.

HTH.
Rob.

Re: Slow Start up

desaputra — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:09:21 GMT

Excellent rob_bw... I've got clear view here... how about service (in System Configuration - msconfig)?