HP & Vista Startup issue

u might want to explore some more on the router side when running wireless.
vista runs fine and quick. what have u done by "optimising"?

cheers ...

This happens to me as well, both on my Vista and XP partitions. It also happened on my last notebook, which wasn't HP. It's something that I've just gotten used to. What is even more bothersome, to me at least, is that other services that aren't loaded yet are on hold until this time consuming operation is completed. It seems worse on XP, actually, where you can't always open "My Computer" until the network is happy.

I've found that it happens more often if I'm booting up (with the wireless enabled) in a location where I haven't already been connected when I shut it down. Sometimes it happens with a wired network connection as well.

When it actually bothers me, which isn't very oftern, I just make sure that the wireless is off and I don't have a network cable plugged in when I turn it on.

I think that the screen filckering isn't related to the network; I think that it is some display service/funtion that finally gets to load after the network is happy. I could be wrong, though...

I have the same notebook and I can tell you that a fresh, clean install of vista will do wonders for startups and it also solved my wireless problem. Follow this link from notebookreview.com and it gives great instructions on the clean install. I think you will be pleased, I know I was.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=120228

What Antivirus are you running? That had a LOT to do w/ my startup slowness... I run AVG religiously but when I uninstalled it for a trial run of a few days, my startup time was at least 25% better.

I have a dv6625us Pavillion with vista, and have had no issues whatsoever. I do think that JuanGuapo has a good point. Anti-virus/Firewall software can cause some of these issues, though it could be something else.

FYI: I was running AVG for a while and finally switched to Windows Live OneCare and it's night-and-day as far as startup/shutdown speeds.

I'm now running WLOC on all machines in our house and it's by far the fastest I've found. I've heard good things about NOD32 as well.

FWIW, i have heard numerous reports of AVG and of ZoneAlarm causing all kinds of weird problems with Vista. Less so AVG. the probs with AVG were more of the extremely long startup times that seem to disappear soon as a diff AV solution is installed in its place. ZA has lots of issues they said they fixed. i went to a diff firewall when i went to vista and havent missed it. my connections work a LOT better without ZA. my advice is try the things listed above, and not necessarily be too quick to blame vista.

The guy above with the dv6xxx series said his worked stellar with Vista, and i have a DV5xxx series i installed Vista on aftermarket, and it runs FLAWLESSLY.

By the way, i have Vista ultimate on this thing, and with NOD32 installed this thing flies. from power on to usable desktop is about 47 seconds. Give a diff av a try, and maybe a diff firewall, and if that doesnt help, then a clean install of Vista. im hoping its an easy fix like just picking a diff firewall and AV program. NOD32 is really awesome. some of the best detection and cleaning rates, really easy on system resources both at boot and while running a scan, and its very user friendly. worth it. lots of good firewalls out there. comodo is good but the alerts are crazy bad. works great though. jetico is another good one.

Hope you get it fixed. regardless though, please write back and let us know if you get it resolved or not, and if you do, what did it.

ev

BTW, possibly applies to your case, perhaps not...

Like many folks, after I bought my laptop, I got rid of much of the "freebie/crapware" pre-installed software. Even so, start up time was a bit long...not unbearable, but long. After I installed and ran Ccleaner, my laptop boots right up quite quickly now. A lot of times, even if you try to slim down the starting sequence, there are still vestiges of programs that are referenced in the registry that can bog things down...just an idea...

Although I applaud the AVG concept, I also believe in some cases you do get what you pay for.

I forgot to mention that I'm running Ultimate 64-bit, and the difference w/ AVG vs. OneCare is night/day. Perhaps there is some advantage (small or large) to being made by the same company (Microsoft) as who makes the OS.


I'm going to give NOD32 a try when my trial (80 days left) w/ One Care is done.

On my duel boot, Ultimate takes a bit of time, XP much faster. Been on Vista exclusively for almost a year with no problems. I leave mine on daily but if away from power put it to sleep if I'm traveling away from power for bit and have power management go to hibernate which still reduces boot time. Use that battery,you paid for it.