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System Boot Up Very Slow

Ok First all The laptop is Sony Viao PCG-grt100, 2.8ghz, 512mb ddr Ram, 60gb HDD,

I had this laptop for about 3 month then one day the laptop start to boot up very slow, it useuaully takes about a 30 sec or less, but now it takes 10 to 15 min to finish its loading, I try recorvry it didn't help, I try virus scan nothing, drefrag, scandisk, Bio update, windows update to the max, but nothing, i called tech support their no help, Oh and I also did MSCONFIG that what I tech support told me to do then they give up.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks you soo much.

Francois_IT

if your laptor is still under warranty.... go exchange it!
fast ans easy solution :)

The14You

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Expire Warranty, thats the problem

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Snowguy

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subhanali

Try uninstalling applicatoins and device drivers that you dont need. They can slow down the system. Then also get a SPYWARE tracer from the Internet. Spywares can slow down your system too much.

Da-Bu

There is this little tool from Microsoft called bootvis that will speed up your boot process, download it, install it, run it - select optimize system..and things will probably be ok...

download link : http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/2/12-2-1.shtml

good luck

Caiapfas

Question : Is the computer running slow after its completely booted up?

The14You

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No, Its slow when Booting up, I'll try the cach and the memtest then see what happen.

Thank You

Da-Bu

bootvis -> run it, you won't regret it .... it won't hurt you to try... ;-)

garreH

Boot-up slow? You mean on the "Windows is loading" screen? Or actully when the OS has passed that? Before POST?

Gary.

Snowguy

>>>"I try recorvry it didn't help"
Was this the recovery disks from Sony or System restore from the OS?
If from sony did you use the reapiar option or the compleat restore to factory specifacations?
A corrupted video driver can and will cause an extremly slow boot.

Paul S

Try these:

http://www.paulscomputerservice.net/index.php?body=./software/speedxp.php

http://superfastcomputer.com/startup.html

The14You

ASKER

It's the booting up that is slow, when its done booting through the system run fine. Just the booting up the system and recoverying from hibernation is slow.

Paul S

can you list everything that is starting up?

K2W

Have you check out the Prefetch folder in C:\Windows. Usually Windows will try to load the stuff inside this folder before loading your desktop. If you have a lot of applications in here then it will take a much longer to get going.

This tool may help after you cleanup.

Windows XP Prefetch Clean And Control 1.2.0:
http://www.winxpfix.com/Free-Windows-Utilities-page14.htm#wxppcac

deanboy3

lavasoft adaware is one of those spyware scanners, it is decent and free
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

also, make sure you dont have 2 anti-virus programs installed sometimes that causes terrible boot

what os are you running?

Does it take a long time to boot if you boot into safe mode?

The14You

ASKER

I Have window xp Home, No it boots fine going to safe mode.

Thanks