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    Windows Boot/Start up Question

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Darth Bane, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. Darth Bane

    Darth Bane Dark Lord of the Sith

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    What does Windows Vista do between the Boot screen and the logon screen? On my PC, the boot screen appears for a few seconds, then a black screen appears for a long time, then the logon screen appears and windows loads really quick. I tried looking into the event viewer but I couldn't find anything. If I knew what Vista does during that time, I might be able to pinpoint the cause of this...
     
    Darth Bane, Oct 23, 2008
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    wesam88 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Check out the NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide sticky at the top of this sub-forum. It's the very first tweak there.
     
    wesam88, Oct 23, 2008
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  3. Darth Bane

    Darth Bane Dark Lord of the Sith

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    I already disabled TMM, so it's not that. I went through a lot of that thread.
     
    Darth Bane, Oct 24, 2008
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    crash NBR Assassin

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    What about start up programs? Could it be something there?
     
    crash, Oct 24, 2008
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  5. Darth Bane

    Darth Bane Dark Lord of the Sith

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    I already looked at start up programs and nothing sticks out, just the normal windows crap. But I thought start up programs only load after you login? The black screen occurs after the boot screen but before the logon screen.
     
    Darth Bane, Oct 24, 2008
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    crash NBR Assassin

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    Oops I'm sorry, I didn't catch that :eek:

    It could be your video driver then. Have you tried updating it or using a different one?
     
    crash, Oct 24, 2008
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  7. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Have you tried doing a registry cleanup?

    I'm not sure if my mothers Medion didn't do something similar once....

    If it did, I didn't reinstal everything.

    Also: Maybe see that you have all updates...
     
    DetlevCM, Oct 24, 2008
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    For an overview of exactly what's going on under the hood when _Vista boots, try some of these articles:
    1. http://www.articlesbase.com/operating-systems-articles/windows-vista-boot-process-overview-242748.html
    2. http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/windows-nt-6-boot-process.html

      These are the first few hits I got from googling on "Microsoft_Vista boot-process".

      Also, this MS Technet forum thread suggests reading "pages1244 - 1254 in the Microsoft Vista Resource Kit book."

      Perhaps those articles (or others from the google search) might give you a better idea of what to look for if there's something specific you want to try and optimize.
     
    Shyster1, Oct 24, 2008
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