Laptop Taking a Long Time to start up

spamberler

Im running vista 32bit SP1 on a sony VGN-N38E laptop with 2gb ram and in the last month ive noticed my laptop seems to be taking much longer to startup fully. Any ideas how I can identify the problem?

[Deleted User]

I'd follow these steps:

1. Run Windows Update: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
2. Run CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com
3. Run an anti-virus scan: http://www.free-av.com/
4. Run an anti-spyware scan: http://www.superantispyware.com/
5, Run an anti-malware scan: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
6. Check the VRAM settings i.e.:

- Click Start, then open the Control Panel.
- Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Under Performance, click Settings.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Under Virtual memory, click Change.
- Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file (virtual memory) settings that you want to change. In almost every case, this will be your C: drive.
- Click to select the "System managed size" option, then click Set.
- Click OK three times and restart your computer.

7. Go to Control Panel, then Add/Remove Programs and uninstall anything not needed.
8. Run a defrag: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314848
9. Investigate msconfig: http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/

Browntoa

take a look at task manager , see if one process is hogging all the processor power, there is a vista process that does this , but the name eludes me !!

can be turned off , think it's some sort of indexer

run me off a hijackthis log file so I can see whats going on



rather than go thorugh a whole load of uneeded virus scans etc

[Deleted User]

Browntoa wrote: »

rather than go thorugh a whole load of uneeded virus scans etc

If they've got a virus scanner installed then by all means miss the step out. If not then I wouldn't call it not needed!

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

If they've got a virus scanner installed then by all means miss the step out. If not then I wouldn't call it not needed!

HIJACK will tell us in seconds if theres something nasty running or not

[Deleted User]

aliEnRIK wrote: »

HIJACK will tell us in seconds if theres something nasty running or not

If it were me I'd prefer to do a full scan with an AV if I had to choose either or, however there's nothing wrong with doing both. Each to their own though.

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

If it were me I'd prefer to do a full scan with an AV if I had to choose either or however there's nothing wrong with doing both. Each to their own though.

I completely agree. All we're saying is do the hijack log FIRST so we can see if there is anything running that shouldnt be.

Browntoa

hijackthis 5 seconds

full scan etc , one hour

no point in a full scan of the machine to diagnose if it's infected , see whats wrong , then run the appropriate software

[Deleted User]

Browntoa wrote: »

hijackthis 5 seconds

full scan etc , one hour

no point in a full scan of the machine to diagnose if it's infected , see whats wrong , then run the appropriate software

Sweeping generalisations and misinformation - i love it!

Browntoa

using a hammer to open a walnut actually

if its a new smitfraud/vundo infection then none of the options you listed would remove it , one of the specialised remover tools would be needed

I'm trying not to waste their time on hours of needless updates and scans (vista SP1 is the latest build , again hijackthis will confirm it) when it may just be a case of disabling the service I mentioned in my first post (can use up 99% of processor for seemingly no reason , grinding vista to a virtual halt)

found it

SearchIndexer.exe

go to

Start -- Run -- services.msc

find the Windows Search entry, change it from 'Automatic' to 'Manual' and reboot

but this is only required if their is evidence of high CPU usag from task manager

Open Task Manager by right-clicking the taskbar and then clicking Task Manager.


then click on the processes tab and look down the list to see what , if anything , is grabbing the processor usage , if it's the thing I posted above it will be showing at somewhere between 45-99 %

espresso

Deleted_User wrote: »

Sweeping generalisations and misinformation - i love it!

Yes you do post a lot of crap!

:rolleyes: