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Fox

Going to put it simple -

I have a Top spec Pc
basic breakdown -
Amd quad core
4GB Ram
320GB HD
GTX8800
vista ultimate.

Can anyone please tell me why A. My pc takes about 2 minutes to bootup
and B. Why it is slow in general, and not giving a good 'windows experience rating'
I have the biggest problem running games, nothing demanding -
especially since im using a GTX8800

Please help!

Hengis

Welcome to PC Help Forum

Firstly, did you clean install Vista, after formatting the drive or is this an XP upgrade?

joe5

Also have installed all your (updated) drivers? Especially VGA card and motherboard?

TitaniumBlack

Originally Posted by Fox

Going to put it simple -

I have a Top spec Pc
basic breakdown -
Amd quad core
4GB Ram
320GB HD
GTX8800
vista ultimate.

Please help!

Wow, that's a nice system especially the 8800GTX!

If you have all the appropriate drivers, are free of malware, and are still experiencing slow boot up, it could be due to

- too many startup entries. Disable useless ones with msconfig.

- fragmentation of system files. Since you have a single HDD, and everything is installed on it, it will fragment quite quickly with a few install/uninstalls. So, do a disk cleanup to delete temp files etc, and run a defrag. Also run a boot-time defrag to defragment the system files. Hopefully, this should fix the boot-up time.

I use a third party defragmenter, and I enable the autodefrag for my OS partition, so it runs in the background and defrags during idle time, always keeping fragmentation in check. This way, I don't need to deal with the hassle of manually defragging regularly, which otherwise takes up too much time.

Fox

Ok il try that tonight

Thank you for all the help, I was suprised I got so many replys this fast !
If it works, I will be sure to reply to this post . If not, I will still reply

Thanks again

-Foxx

davidf

First of all, about the slowness - no matter how fast your pc, you are sure to have problems with speed using any vista version. You have to take into consideration that windows has tried to upgrade so many things at once - and as usual you know they're not going to get everything right on the first try - that's why there's SP1 to take care of some of the problems with speed. One solution for some speed-related issues, like transferring files, would be to download updates - although this might not work at all.

About the User Expirience thing - the stupid thing is , imo, that when it rates your computer, it doesn't average out all of the different ratings, it takes the lowest rating and and then makes it your overall rating - just so when you download **** off their website, they know what you're computer is capable of.

AW_3_3

First of all, about the slowness - no matter how fast your pc, you are sure to have problems with speed using any vista version. You have to take into consideration that windows has tried to upgrade so many things at once - and as usual you know they're not going to get everything right on the first try - that's why there's SP1 to take care of some of the problems with speed. One solution for some speed-related issues, like transferring files, would be to download updates - although this might not work at all.

About the User Expirience thing - the stupid thing is , imo, that when it rates your computer, it doesn't average out all of the different ratings, it takes the lowest rating and and then makes it your overall rating - just so when you download **** off their website, they know what you're computer is capable of.

actually thats not true. because my parents have an excellent, top of the line ocmputer i recently put together for them, and it runs vista very fast, with aero, much faster than their previous computer with Windows XP SP2.