Slow start-up

[Nick_White]

As you all know, Vista starts many many services and disabling some unneeded ones can bring great performance improvements.

I disabled the following ones:

ReadyBoost

Security Center

SBSD Security Center Service

Superfetch

TabletPC Input Service

Themes

Windows Error Reporting Service

Windows Search

Windows Time

Windows Update

Volume Shadow Copy (Manual)

Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider (Manual)

Offline Files

Now Vista works much faster, but with a problem:

When it starts up, I enter the password for my user account and I wait for the desktop to load. The waiting lasts like 5 minutes with the "Welcome" text and loading icon showing and NO hard-disk activity. After a long wait, the desktop shows up and everything is OK.

When I hibernate instead of shutting down, at start-up the loading lasts a couple of seconds which is OK to me. This is the workaround that I use now.

The same thing happened to other two notebooks (same configuration, same software installed).

[oskingen]

I don't think you get this issue because of disabling some services. did you try to set them as default state to see if the problem persist ?

empty your prefetch folder in windows.

[Tripredacus]

Tripredacus has erred.

Edited October 3, 2008 by Tripredacus

[Nick_White]

I disabled the following ones:

ReadyBoost

...

Superfetch

Now Vista works much faster ...

[cluberti]

I have to second that disabling those services should not cause that type of delay. Usual logon delays are network or DHCP-related, so if you're sure you aren't having DHCP problems you could try re-enabling Windows Update and Error Reporting services to see if either of those is trying to do something, but can't (thus causing the timeout) to be safe, but I don't think that'll do it. I'd try it though, just to be safe and sure they aren't.

[Nick_White]

Re-enabled them all, but the same problem. After that, I disabled them again and disabled some more:

Smart Card

Application Experience

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (Auto DS)

IP Helper

IPsec Policy Agent

Secondary Logon

WebClient

After this, Vista now starts as expected (pretty fast).

[weEvil]

Use themes and enable Aero. System is more responsive with a good GPU.