Windows Vista Loading Slow

[samjcarroll]

I have a machine that the windows vista is loading very slow. I have eliminated virus and mal ware with various scans. I have disabled all programs from start up. Is there anything that is windows vista specific that anyone can think of that would be causing this machine to load extremely slow.

 

[myleso]

you check event logs?, services failing for one reason or another will kill your start up speed

 

[NYJimbo]

Definitely check for hard drive errors/smart errors. We get "slow loading" machines all the time that end up being unreadable sectors that make the machine timeout during steps of the bootup.

Of course there are a ton of other things, but you can google that yourself. .

 

[coffee]

Vista seems to really trash the drives with indexing. Have you turned that off? It can really slow things down from a disk access point of view.


coffee

 

[citizensmith]

what sort of procesor & ram have you got? Is it a clockwork abacus and 16kb of memory? perhaps a dell c600 with 512mb ? Slow to show desktop or slow to user login?
You dont seemed to have learned from the second time you posted http://technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7246 about giving suficient info.
2009 was a long time ago

 

[katz]

Definitely check for hard drive errors/smart errors. We get "slow loading" machines all the time that end up being unreadable sectors that make the machine timeout during steps of the bootup.

Of course there are a ton of other things, but you can google that yourself. .

+1

Scan the drive w/ Sea Tools, Vivard, etc. before proceeding further. No sense in doing a lot of scanning if you're looking at a bad HD. Also, HD could be stuck in PIO mode.

 

[Xander]

3 posts in 4 years asking for help and never helping others? I will follow your example and not be of assistance here.