Comments on: Why Windows Is Useless for so Long After Booting

By: toddogas

toddogas — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:42:04 +0000

Vendors often ship a lot of “crapware” with new PCs. Check if HP placed any on yours that startup with Windows and disable them if you can do so safely. You should also check for malware that may be chewing up processing time. And, finally, you might want to consider a potential hardware problem. It may be that the hard drive has bad sectors or other physical problems.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:24:31 +0000

i just got a new HP laptop Pavilion 17″ – last couple weeks this thing has taken 15 minutes to reboot! i’ve tried everything to get it to move faster, other than running a recovery on it! Suggestions?

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:30:44 +0000

Hibernation is all good but when your udating drivers and got to restart and every time and takes 5mins+ to load up

By: todd

todd — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:33:27 +0000

KNN Foddr: Hibernation is good advice. However, the two PC’s I’ve run Vista on (a Dell Latitude D620 notebook and an eMachines T6420 both are very if-fy when I try to resume from hibernation. I would say that the D620 resumed 85% and behaved oddly about 25% of the time after it resumed. The T6420 resumes correctly about 10% of the time. So, I’ve stopped trying on that box.

By: KNN Foddr

KNN Foddr — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:18:23 +0000

Don’t turn your computer off, put it into hibernate instead. Reboot only when the system requests it. See if that speeds things up.