Vista slow boot / shutdown

[liloe]

hiho =) I have no Vista computer myself, so I'm asking here. There's a Vista computer that boots and shuts down rather slow.

The owner did the standard thing with forced kill on shutdown and faster kill reaction and I turned by the Antispy option of deleting the swapfile, but it still takes ages (yes I know, it rocks when ppl play around in the registry without any knowledge at all).

Now the question is: Does Vista simply take longer after some time or is there some hidden shit I missed? I recall there were some problems with users on Win XP machines, which could be sorted with some kind of little cleaner provided by MS.

Any ideas?

And as asked where I posted first: The computer is a Dell Inspiron notebook, no idea which model exactly. The student who brought that thing to me just said something along the lines of "it used to boot shut down faster" ^^

 

[Kryten]

Yes, it's longer in comparison to XP. It also differs between computers, some chipsets/laptops/motherboards etc seem to work better, no doubt due to drivers in most cases.
Not a great deal you can do other than what you've already done I'm afraid, unless anyone else knows any useful tips and tricks

 

[old.Osy]

From personal experience, Vista does take longer to boot / shutdown.

I would bet it on the myriad of services running in the background.

More here.

 

[dysfunction]

You are able to delay services on boot up so that vista starts up quicker...

Delay the Startup of a Service — MAXIMUMpcguides Windows Vista

 

[liloe]

Heh OK, thanks for the ideas, gonna try some of these and see what happens =)