Windows Vista Home Prem

[Zen2]

Hey guys having a little trouble with my laptop, Its on windows vista home premium, Basicly when i start my laptop up then login ill be waiting a good 60-200 seconds before all my desktop items load? Anyone have this problem and know how to fix it?

Its a duel core 1.5 ghz with 2 gig ram i do not see specs causing the problem.

Cheers,

/Zen2

 

[Far]

maybe spyware?

hard drive full?

loads of startup apps?

norton antivirus? (that always seem to slow pcs down)

cld be many things.

 

[Babyhack]

Clean you desktop

BH

 

[elohelMeight]

Yeah, I got rid of norton, stopped most of my startups, and cleaned my desktop, pc ran sweet, need to clean again though.

 

[emmille]

Do you have the vista side bar up with the opacity effect on? Take if off if you do it will eat up resources.

 

[mapadale]

Vista does take any where upto 2min to load up.

 

[Zen2]

Hmm cheers for the replys people, Sorry about the lack of info it was early and i had to go to work!

I dont use the sidebar (never have)

I do have a fair few things on my desktop but nothing windows xp struggled with. I have had this installation for a few months however i did expect it to last alot longer, I find formatting the same hard drive lots of times causes errors with the drive itself. I dont have norton, I use AVG Free which seems to do the job fine i also have no spyware, adware or viruses that AVG is aware of.

Im debating going back to windows xp, Its just a pain really though to say the least.

Cheers for the help / advice

/Zen2

 

[Tomo]

I hardly ever shutdown my laptop, sleep mode ftw. 2 seconds and poof! back to the login screen pre-loaded

I have hardly anything on my desktop but still takes about a minute to load everything.

/Tomo