NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[simeonpashley]

can I suggest removing all unnecessary language packs? My system sneaked in Thai, Ukraine and some other one and the boot times were massive!

[Meetloaf13]

No go on that one...in the meantime my startup is schtinks like sour milk :\

[Meetloaf13]

OK guys, so I was tweaking a little bit this morning. I changed some services from Auto to Auto(delayed), and then I Ran CCleaner's registry cleaner...and then I shutdown completely...

"Lo and behold", my startup time was under a minute, I almost peed my pants (sad, I know)...I thought to myself, "can this be true?"

Well, I'll save you from peeing your pants, it's not true. My startup time is even WORSE. Here are the latest 3 startup times (with complete shutdown as well as a simple restart):

Time to see startup Pearl = 1:04
Time to see webpage in Firefox = 3:20

Time to see startup Pearl = 1:06
Time to see webpage in Firefox = 3:26

Time to see startup Pearl = 1:25
Time to see webpage in Firefox = 3:26

A few more things that have happened since last time. I uninstalled SP1 & upgraded to the newest RC. I ended up have to repair my installation (now my XP/VISTA dual boot screen says "Vista [recovered]". I also resized a partition. I had a disk error had to run chkdisk twice. All is running as usual except for the startup.

!!! What do you guys think?

[Meetloaf13]

UPDATE:

Hey guys, I got my Boot log and there are 378 instances of drivers that didn't load...I included an excel file that lists them all.

Note: I sorted the entries for ease of seeing duplicates and frequency, but the instances of this message occurred as several instances of a series (ABCD, ABCD...etc)

I hope this helps me solve this beast.

EDIT: Here are the unique entries (I deleted 300+ iterations of these entries):
Did not load driver @battery.inf,%acpi\acpi0003.devicedesc%;Microsoft AC Adapter
Did not load driver @battery.inf,%acpi\pnp0c0a.devicedesc%;Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
Did not load driver @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
Did not load driver @hal.inf,%acpi_amd64.devicedesc%;ACPI x64-based PC
Did not load driver @mdmcxhv6.inf,%hsfmodem_cnxt2%;In-Build COnexant HDA Type 2 modem
Did not load driver @oem14.inf,%st64.devicedesc%;SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC
Did not load driver @oem17.inf,%devicedescription%;Laptop Integrated Webcam
Did not load driver @oem7.inf,%nvidia_g84.dev_0407.1%;NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Did not load driver @sdbus.inf,%pci\cc_080501.devicedesc%;SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\kbdhid.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\srv.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\SysWow64\DRIVERS\rassstp.sys
Did not load driver kbdhid.SYS
Did not load driver RDPCDD.SYS
Did not load driver Wanarpv6.SYS

[kozzney]

A few more things that have happened since last time. I uninstalled SP1 & upgraded to the newest RC. I ended up have to repair my installation (now my XP/VISTA dual boot screen says "Vista [recovered]". I also resized a partition. I had a disk error had to run chkdisk twice. All is running as usual except for the startup.

!!! What do you guys think?

Probably when you reinstalled the Vista SP1, it erased all your optimization data, causing your system to boot up slower. I had the same problem happen when I first installed the SP1 RC Refresh, my system boot up really slow for about 2 days, then it got faster. Give it a few days and see if there is any improvement.

[Chrystian_Vaio]

Although I knew about most of them out of experience some were new and quite helpful as there are just so many who actually know Vista! 10x u guys and keep up the good work!

[Meetloaf13]

Just for some closure:
I chanced upon a sweet deal for a Seagate Momentus 160GB 7200RPM drive. Long story short, I'm in good shape with a clean install. Boottime ~1min

...too bad we couldn't figure it out before, but thanks for all of your help anyhow.

[FLHX07]

just up-dated CCleaner and now have Yahoo tool bar which I "don't want".
can't seem to get rid of it can someone help?
Thanks

[Calvin]

just up-dated CCleaner and now have Yahoo tool bar which I "don't want".
can't seem to get rid of it can someone help?
Thanks

As you install CCleaner you have to uncheck the yahoo tool bar. Uninstall toolbar for now.

[Meetloaf13]

Calv, that's what he wanted to know how to do.

FLH, do you have IE6 or 7?