How do I speed up Vista boot?

There are three things to do that will help you out drastically and make Vista boot up REAL fast.

Now, vista has a few built-in things that start up for security and for user convenience that are HUGE and take FOREVER to load up at start.

Two of the biggest offenders that you can TOTALLY do without, are Vista Sidebar, and Windows Defender. First off, defender is gargabe. get avg anti spyware or a freebie that does NOT start up at boot and does NOT run in the back ground soaking up resources. Go to msconfig and uncheck defender and uncheck sidebar.

Next, type services.msc into the search bar on your start menu and when it shows up click on it. navigate to defender and sidebar entries. If you use sidebar, set it to a delayed start up. it wont load with the OS reducing boot time by A LOT. also, disable defender and use something a lot better. in tests, defender was one of the poorest performing anti spyware progs anyway so why bother?

Do those two things and your machine will run a LOT better.

Also, look and see what other programs you have set to load at startup in msconfig. you prolly know how to get there but just in case, i will say it anyway so someone who reads this post and doesnt, finds out how to. go to start, then type in msconfig, and when it comes up, just click on it.

Some people disable the search indexer too, in services, but its handy and doesnt really help all that much. kill defender, and kill sidebar, or atleast delay it, and you will definitely notice faster boot times.

ev

Does anyone know a list of services in vista that can be safely disabled? I hate to disable something that the o/s needs.

edit: i have found these if anyone is interested.

http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/18/services/

http://ourtweaks.com/vista/disable-i...service-vista/

http://www.tweakvista.com/article38662.aspx

There are three things to do that will help you out drastically and make Vista boot up REAL fast.

In trying to tweak vista, I followed the steps in the thread and.......

I disabled defender in both the msconf and services, however, now i get an error message when on start up that says: Application failed to initialize ox800106ba. I tried changing from disabled to manual start on services but still I get the error message. Its annoying. Also, I did disable the windows errror reporting but that does nothing for this error message. CAN I GET RID of this annoying error message?[/quote]

. reset ur services and msconfig to before with windows defender
. restart.
. uninstall windows defender
. download windows defender from m$ an reinstall it
. ur error message and code should now go away
. turn OFF windefender:
"1. Open Windows Defender by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Defender.
2. Click Tools, and then click Options.
3. Under Administrator options, select or clear the Use Windows Defender check box, and then click Save. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation"

cheers ...

Defrag the hard drive, make sure Prefetch is enabled (to load programs faster), and make sure only the essential services/programs start at startup.

I always use Black Viper's guide to tweak my OS.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm