Booting Into X64 FAST
Feb 24, 2009
Someone once told me he could boot into vista x64 from cold in just 6 seconds, just cant believe that, he had a velociraptor in raid. I have a regular raptor and have tried every trick under the book to get a faster boot, normally take around a minute, even with a quadcore pc with 8gb ram... my partners laptop takes around 30 seconds off that and is nowhere near as powerful. Does anyone have any mega tips for fast boots apart from the dreaded hibernation? I even tried a OCZ SSD but thought they were a waste of money for the like 2 second difference.
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Aug 7, 2008
Is there a way to get rid of the screen that comes up when I type Win/L? That's the one with the current user avatar and a Switch User button, it seems to serve no useful purpose, wasn't there on XP. Is there some way of making the User Account avatars more like those on XP? I have week eyesight and I can't discern which avatar has focus when I use arrow keys, so I have to use the mouse. On XP it was much more obvious which UA had focus. Is there some way to show the mail and process counts?
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Jun 29, 2009
I hind the Vista home not as fast as XP pro. I there something I can do to make it as fast?
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Apr 3, 2009
1. I have the fastest cable connection possible and I just can't move around the Internet fast. I can download in a flash but moving from site to site is sloooooow.
2. And... after a year on Vista I am now getting popups. I thought it was supposed to stop them? I update all the time. I have Vista home edition.
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Apr 4, 2008
I would like to have an external drive which is a USB2 but I'm not sure how fast it is. Does anyone know the difference in speed because I don't want to have to upload data to my hard drive then go to bed and the next morning it's still uploading.
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Jun 22, 2008
Why does my mouse burn thru batteries so fast? it's always blinking, if i want batteres to last more than a couple days i have to remove them when not in use
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Jan 22, 2008
I have a reasonably fast computer that can run Vista with hardly any issues (Q6600 @ 3Ghz, 4GB RAM @ 1066MHz, GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB); I have a LOT of things running in the background, however. Some of these things are useful, some aren't. My question is: will spending several hours optimizing Vista (disabling Aero, disabling services, tweaking the registry, disabling start up of certain programs, removing Windows components, etc) result in any appreciable performance difference? Vista responds FAST, but not REALLY FAST. I think, however, that in my situation, it may be best to adopt the notion, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Jun 10, 2009
I have to move my computer so I'll need to go wireless. Are those Wireless USB Adapters as fast as a PCI Card? Seems so easy to install, and if it's just as good, why not? My PC will be 6 feet from the router, but the signal will have to go through a 4-foot wall. (standard residential wall, drywall and wood 2x4's)
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Apr 29, 2009
I have created a DVD using Windows Vista DVD Maker. I need to make about a dozen copies to mail out to family and friends. What would be the fastest way to make copies of this DVD? I have only a single DVD burner in my PC. I thought maybe create an image of this DVD then burn from that. It takes over 2 hours to create the DVD from the project file in DVD Maker.
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Sep 29, 2009
If you have a good DVD video and want to share with others, you may need to convert DVD to MPEG4 in order to reduce its weight.For those who seldom do DVD to MPEG4 conversion, it may be troublesome when it comes to relative settings. With Leawo DVD to MPEG4 Converter,such troubles and worries are taken away. What left to you are only a few clicks within everyone's knowledge. You can also deal with the video through extra editing functions like extracting soundtrack, cropping out the black margin, cutting away head and tail, etc.
Then, how to convert DVD to MPEG4? Take Leawo DVD Ripper for example, it provides a typical easy-to-use interface, on which users may face the basic settings only. The first step is to load a DVD resource. It is possible to load DVD resource either from a DVD disc or a folder on your harddisk. When the loading process is complete,a list of DVD video content is shown by titles and chapters. This information is contained in a file by an extension of .inf, so if you don't see the list, it is probably the inf file is missing or corrupted...........
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Oct 31, 2009
My disk light is often constantly locked on solid during internet activity and I never know what is happening. I know I can bring up the Task Manager but it moves around too fast and the running apps are usually mysterious in what they are really doing. There must be a tool out there that takes the top two or three applications/processes that are causing the solid light and not only displays them but explain what their purpose is.
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Jun 22, 2009
Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit on M6400 notebook with 16GB RAM.
With 16GB RAM does Vista really need any virtual memory?
My quad core, 16GB RAM notebook would be faster without hard drive access due to virtual memory.
Can I turm off virtual memory or set it to some very low value (possibly 0)?
My preference is to use the 16GB RAM and should that be insufficient then I decide which programs to close. I don't want Vista using 4GB, or 6GB RAM, etc., and continually writing/reading to HD which slows things down and does not make full use of the physical RAM present.
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Nov 30, 2007
I am going to get a new PC and I'm undecided whether to be be happy with the 8400 that comes with or pay an extra £100 (£200) for 2 x 8500 ones. Obviously, the graphics would look nicer but would anything else be affected like how fast the loading time of the games are and do you get more frames per second?
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Nov 21, 2008
restart of my system? Event viewer? I was on line reading news when my system gave me a blue screen, couldnt read everything fast enough... something to the fact it shut down to protect windows.....it was a full screen of dialogthen restarted. Hasnt ever happened before.. didnt click on any links or anything...seems to be running fine after restart.
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Jun 6, 2008
When I go to re-boot or shutdown.. I get a very fast screen flash that states that my explorer.exe is still running then it shuts down and restarts like normal. I don't remember seeing it before the last few weeks... it is very fast and doesn't allow me the chance to do anything but notice it.
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Jul 29, 2009
I'll be attending a 5 day course, 8 hrs per day. I'd like to take my Vista laptop with me and record the voice. I'm worried that I'll run out of disk space pretty fast. Is there any software that would allow me to record in a compressed form straight away?
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Jun 5, 2008
This message keeps on popping up after trying to install adobe 8 and getting a blue screen in the middle of the installation. Can't get rid of the message window even after uninstalling adobe!
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Feb 21, 2009
source of video is a Sony DSC-H50 camera set to 'Std' record mode. Ifran reports: width 640 height 471 bitsperpixel 32 frames 378 (25.0 fps) length 15.12 seconds actual playback is too fast at about 9 seconds (Windows Media Player) with 'chipmunk' sound. playback on the camera is 15 seconds camera manual says that in 'Std' mode it should be about 17 frames/sec. Vista Home Premium, SP1, all patches from Automatic updates. Must be something in my setup as I don't see this as common in my Google search.
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May 7, 2010
I've had some trouble with my system - Dell XPS 630I - hibernation problems, not being able to set or go back to a Restore Point, etc. So I've had a Microsoft tech help me solve my problems in the last few weeks, and after finally coming to the 'Reinstall Vista' as the only solution, I reinstalled yesterday. I have not yet installed any drivers or Dell software, but, obviously, did get my internet capability back.
I'm not worried about getting my system back to normal working order eventually, but one thing has me concerned: My system is running so loud and fast constantly. Previously, when I turned my computer on, during the startup phase, it ran like this (loud and fast, noisy) until it reached the black screen with the colorful, Vista circle in the middle, at which point it quieted down completely and continued with the Windows startup. Does anyone know what it is that has my computer sound like its running so fast, and sounding so loud constantly. Is it going to be one of the system drivers that I will eventually load that will 'calm' my system down??
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Feb 11, 2009
Last week I upgraded a HPxw4400X workstation from WinXP Pro w/SP3 to Vista Business. I did a full backup and also used FAST (files and settings transfer wizard). However, I soon found out that the DVD drive was "broke". HP told me it was because of the upgrade. They said to do a fresh install. Did another backup, fresh install, then a restore. Had lots of problems with BSOD, but a selective restore got it working again. But he can't see MS Office, nor navigate to it. I can see it when logged in as an admin. I thought of copying files and folders between profiles (he has 3 of 'em - , ., and ..000). The former is the oldest so I thought I could copy the App Data and User Data over it'd work (in both Documents and Settings, and Users), but it didn't work. I've been here working on various issues for 28 hours, so I'm not thinking as clearly as I'd like.
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Oct 12, 2009
Using my ISP (Roadrunner Carolinas) speed test site; I get around 200 to 400 kbps download speeds using IE in normal mode. If I boot to Safe Mode, I get around 3500 to 4500 kbps, which is what it should be (this is what I used to get in normal mode before I re-installed Vista). Running the same speed test with Firefox, I get around 1500 to 2000 kbps in normal mode, but if I try to download a file it ransfers at only the 200 to 400 kbsp rate (if I'm lucky). Here's more detail about the system and what I've done so far:
Installed all updates including SP2.
Using Windows Firewall, no anti-virus.
Updated network drivers directly from NVidia (Chipset is nForce750i)
Updated graphics card drivers directly from NVidia
Disabled all LAN protocols except for Client for Microsoft Networks and IPv4
Connected via ethernet cable directly to cable modem, no router.
I've deliberately refrained from loading anything but the basics until I can get this sorted out..........
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Oct 3, 2009
How fast can a modern speech recognition app' translate speech into text with no mistakes?In my case, 384 wpm, because that is the very fastest that I can speak, and still have another human understand what I am saying. Neither my hardware nor my software limited me, only the rate at which I talked limited me. My computer is a run of the mill model that has a 2.4 GHz Intel core 2 duo CPU. Ram is 4 GB. OS is Vista Ultimate, with all the patches............................
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Jun 20, 2008
my vista home edition 32 bit hangs on the loading screen and does nothing. iv tried doing the start up repair thing but that didnt work, iv done a virus scan but it has come up with nothing. this problem is really annoying
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Jun 3, 2008
I've just started having boot problems with Vista. I've had no problems in the past, but earlier this evening it would restart itself while loading Vista (the green bar loading stage). I used the Startup Repair option from the Vista install disc, and the log shows it successfully repaired a corrupted system volume (exact wording may have been different). Now it boots as far as loading a black screen and the mouse cursor, but doesn't get to the Aurora (blue-Vista-Windows-logo-loading thing). I have tried subsequent Startup Repairs, CHKDSKs, Memory Diagnostic checks, all with no errors to report. Unfortunately, I disabled System Restore a while back... Something I now regret doing! At least I know what I'll be doing as soon as I get it running again! My system is an ASUS M2N-E motherboard, AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+, Corsair 2x1GB XMS2 RAM, Sapphire ATi Radeon 3850... And so on and so forth. I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit as well.
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Jul 6, 2008
I just purchased a machine with a 64 bit OEM. I have created another partition because I want to install 32 bit on there. However, it is not working so I was wondering if there was something I am not doing right here. I want to use the 32 bit for internet access and itunes and the 64 bit for gaming. I do not have any discs with the 64 bit OS on it either everything I have here is 32 bit.
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Jul 3, 2008
Can I partition my HD to two partitions, Install my copy of winXP pro on both (its only on one comouter so that shouldnt violate anything) and then upgrade one of them to vista using an upgrade disk? Will both windows work fine?
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Mar 6, 2009
A friend's Vista computer started booting only as far as the round Vista logo then froze. I took the PC home and using my keyboard, mouse and monitor did some maintenance, upped the memory etc and took it back. It still froze at the logo. I replaced the keyboard and mouse and monitor one by one to no avail. Took everything home and it worked as a system, but at his house - still freezes. Is this an electrical problem - if so how could I find out? Their other computer works fine.
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Aug 19, 2009
After booting up the computer the desktop freezes immediately. If it doesn't freeze up immediately I'll have some functionality, but minimal. I'll no longer have access to the internet (no network adapter present), can't run programs (they fail to open) or can't install programs/updates. I have even gotten a couple of Blue screen error messages such as: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
In safe mode with networking I do have access to the internet. When I try to download updates in safe mode I can't because Install shield will not work, or some other excuse. There are no restore points to restore to. There was a Windows Framework update on August 7th. I tried to uninstall it, but apparently it was never installed properly. No blue screens while in Safe Mode. I've been trying to problem solve this on my own, but with my limited computer repair skills I'm scared to try things.
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Mar 7, 2010
If I want to boot from the CD drive on ocassions, but otherwise boot
from the hard disk. How can I achieve this.
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Mar 25, 2010
i have a Sony Vaoi VGN-NS11J im not sure if its a 32-bit or 62-bit. one day i was browseing facebook when my computer froze after leaving it for like 30 mins it was still frozen so i had to turn it off by the button and i know that is bad. when i tried to turn it on again it just gave me the options safe mode safe mode with networking and the other safe mode and start windows normally so i just started normally it gets past the vaoi screen and then on the microsoft windows screen it just keeps loading for like 10 minutes then it restarts then it gave me new options start windows normally or launch startup repair so i launch startup repair which takes like 40 minutes just to get to the actually repair place then it gives me no operating system to repair its just blank ive tried all the booting options start from last known good boot or something like that safe mode wont work and when i disable restart when startup fails i get the blue screen of death it gives me this message. A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
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Oct 23, 2008
I have a Gateway laptop that has (or had ) Windows Vista Home Premium x86 installed. It was a dual core Turion with 2GB RAM. Anyway, here is my problem(s):
When the computer first comes on, right after the Gateway screen it tells me:
System Config Data Read Error.
That is right when it turns on. The BIOS detects the hard drive just fine.
The second problem is:
It tells me that
Windows Failed to start. File: BootBCD
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot config data.
I tried to do a system repair with the Vista CD. It took about 10 times for it to work. If I turned the computer off, there is a 50/50 chance it would do the same thing and not work. I was chatting with Gateway support yesterday and the tech told me that Windows could be messing with the BIOS. I find that strange because I thought onceWindows took over, the BIOS has nothing to do with how the computer operates.
Well, I tried doing a system repair and it does not detect the Windows install at all. I figured well, I'll do a clean install and get rid of all of the crap that Gateway puts on their computers. I did that. I was able to make a new partition and format the drive. Windows is able to see the drive, but it tells me that it does not meet the criteria for the install. It will not go any further then that.
Gateway is going to replace the hard drive and if that does not work, they are going to service the laptop because I've only had it for a few months now. It worked fine on Tuesday, on Wednesday it did not work at all. Even with the hard drive out, it still tells me System Config Data Read Error on the BIOS screen. Just wanted to see what everyone else thinks.
I'm leaning more towards a drive controller failure or BIOS problem. If that is the case, then the motherboard needs to be replaced,
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