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Troubleshooting 101
All measurements are in milliseconds, so chop off the last three digits to get a reading in seconds. In this example, the full boot time was nearly two minutes? What's happening during that time? One way to find clues is to look for other events with the same time stamp...

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RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)
I have viewed the filtered even log and found a few degradations. Thank you for the information. However, no sugestions for solution is found. I have for example, slow audio driver, slow windows explo... (Read the rest)
Posted by: noormotani Posted on: 09/03/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Keep the information coming!  CobraA1 | 05/04/07
Troubleshoting?  george304N@... | 05/07/07
I agree - how do you fix the stuff?  timmycb | 05/11/07
vista slow to start up  tfwalkingeagle@... | 05/08/07
You got 3 bad Vista machines?  tkelley3@... | 05/09/07
3 bad vista machines  tfwalkingeagle@... | 05/09/07
Thats horrifying  elderdragon51@... | 05/11/07
Load-time Decisions  TechnoSarge | 05/12/07
BUT this is not new...  LorenBC | 12/05/07
SLOW Vista startups  dubrosky | 05/11/07
My Vista boots up fast.  jmiller1978 | 05/23/07
My boots fast - now  fr0thy2. | 06/20/07
Vista boots fast for me too - faster than XP too.  HypnoToad72 | 05/27/07
Vista slow to boot?  r888@... | 05/29/07
Re: Vista slow to boot?  Beechcraft | 11/30/07
Mjhieu  mjhieu@... | 06/01/07
`Hidden Diagnostic Vista Tools  AJWestwood | 06/07/07
vista Startup info  shushu | 06/07/07
vista slow boot  wirons | 07/27/07
Vista slow to boot?  vendolf1k | 04/10/08
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  paulsan | 08/22/08
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  paulsan | 08/22/08
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  paulsan | 08/22/08
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  mjc2002 | 10/29/08
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  oldchas | 02/22/09
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  noormotani | 09/03/09
RE: Vista slow to boot? Get the facts (Troubleshoot slow starts with Vista's Event Viewer)  noormotani | 09/03/09

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