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louis76

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    Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
    « on: April 20, 2011, 10:42:32 AM »
    Im trying to sort out my friends windows vista laptop. It takes about 5 minutes to boot up. Ive ran a malware and virus scan as well as defraging and cleaning out his temp internet files. Ive even went into msconfig and removed  unnecessary programs from loading up and it still takes ages to start. Ive noticed that it keeps saying on it that its looking for new hardware for BitDefender Firewall NDIS Filter Miniport but fails to install it. I uninstalled the program but the problem is still there. Could this be the problem?

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    Dell Inspiron 1525
    2gb DDR2 RAM
    2ghz Duo Core 2
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    Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
    « Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 10:55:17 AM »
    Uninstall BitDefender...
    If he didn't pay for it there are better Free alternatives such as Avast...
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      Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
      « Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 11:04:26 AM »
      I have BitDefender uninstalled but the problem persists, i have avast home edition installed as well as malwarebytes and Ccleaner
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      Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
      « Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 11:05:59 AM »

      Did you uninstall........then re-boot?
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      Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
      « Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 11:07:59 AM »
      No reason to run 2 Virus apps side by side...what did you clear out from startup ? ?
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        Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
        « Reply #5 on: April 20, 2011, 12:41:20 PM »
        Yeah i rebooted, before i installed those programs the laptop was still the same. I don't think its going to make any difference if i uninstall malwarebytes. I do myself have those programs installed on my own Windows XP Pro PC. The programs i stopped from loading up would be adobe, google desktop and xaudio. Even on msconfig if i click on Boot > Advanced Options and i have the number of processors set to 2 and the memory to max 
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        Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
        « Reply #6 on: April 20, 2011, 12:46:56 PM »

        Malwarebytes isnt a Anti-virus

        BitDefender and Avast are......you should only run one!

        I dont want to sound pedantic, but have you got a dual-core or 2 processors?
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          Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
          « Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 12:55:50 PM »
          Since i have just a Pentium 4 on my own PC my friends laptop says that its a Core 2 Duo, is that 2 processors?
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          Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
          « Reply #8 on: April 20, 2011, 01:01:59 PM »

          No, its 2 cores in one processor!

          Change your settings back to 1 processor and re-boot
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            Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
            « Reply #9 on: April 20, 2011, 01:23:08 PM »
            I changed the settings back to 1 processor but its still the same  :(
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            Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
            « Reply #10 on: April 20, 2011, 01:32:25 PM »
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            Re: Vista takes 5 minutes to boot up
            « Reply #11 on: April 20, 2011, 01:33:03 PM »
            How slow is slow?

            Can you time it from pushing the power button to actual log on screen!
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