BoardBabe Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I have a pretty clean vista system on my lapotop, with not many startuo items. however after desktop loads there is a delay of nearly 3-4 minutes before its all ready to go... How do I troubleshoot and find out whats taking so long to load? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 You could run a process monitor log to see what is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Could you please explain how this is done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Download process monitor from sysinternals, run it, click Options > Enable boot logging in procmon, and reboot. Once you've rebooted and the system is finally up, open procmon again and you will be able to see what happened after the reboot, from kernel load to the time you opened procmon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 I cannot compress the log file. The application crashes at about 60% of log file compression. Any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 (edited) Hit winkey+r and type msconfig and look under startup. You'll see a crapload of entries under there disable the normal ones like java update scheduler and adobe quick start all of those. Then google the rest or ask here. Once you have all of those disabled reboot. Edited February 21, 2009 by Kelsenellenelvian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Compress what log file?Hit winkey+r and type msconfig and look under startup. You'll see a crapload of entries under there disable the normal ones like java update scheduler and adobe quick start all of those. Then google the rest or ask here. Once you have all of those disabled reboot.The bootlog from procmon application mentioned above. I click enable bootlog and reboot, then when I open the app after reboot it asks to save/compress logfile, this crashes the application after a couple of minutes.I have disabled all startup applications and services that i do not need. still there is a tremendous delay after desktop is loaded of anything up to 4 minutes before all is loaded and windows idles (responds for use). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Thats an amazing delay....Did you do all the other normal stuff?Memtest?Defrag?Checkdisk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Thats an amazing delay....Did you do all the other normal stuff?Memtest?Defrag?Checkdisk?Yes it is. Something is clearly wrong. Defrag of both registry and hdd is done. I am not familiar with memtest and checkdisk. The machine is only a couple of months old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 http://hcidesign.com/memtest/ <-- memtest. Run this and let it run for a long time. It will tell you if there is a problem with your ram.As for checkdisk it is the built in windows file and disk checker. Right click on your OS drive and select properties --> tools --> error checking, and select both boxes. It will ask to reboot to do the test, reboot and you will see a DOS type screen during boot that is where the test is automatically run.Please try checkdisk first. as for memtest some say to let it run for an hour or more but i have always found bad ram within like 15 minutes of it running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Checkdisk returned no errors. Will try memtest also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Memtest returns no errors at a quick 20min test, will try more firmly also.To me this seems like a driver/software issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Anything else I can do to debug? Another logger etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr33m4n Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Have you checked the event viewer in computer management?Go to: Start > Right Click "Computer" and choose "Manage" to open the computer management console. Then under the event viewer check all the windows logs and look for any error around the time you are booting up. There is an incredible amount of info stored there that might help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardBabe Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 I have looked, but not knowing what to look for makes it kind of difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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