[jimmybob479]

After vista welcome screen comes on and I enter in my password, vista does it's little loading screen with the circle for about 20 seconds then I go to a black screen - just my mouse - for a minute or two (I've timed it. Its definitely more than a minute). During this minute plus of pure inactivit there harddrive is not accessing anything and nothing seems to be happening. After that amount of time goes by, the harddrive starts firing up again and vista loads up fine - and works quite quickly. I have a core 2 duo process and 2 gigs of ram. Its a brand new HP dv9500 laptop and am wondering why I have to stare at a black, inactive black screen so long during startup. Any help? I've tried defragment, optimizing startup files, did a few registry tweaks recommended at other sites (extremetech.com), turned on the data cache bursting thing on my sata drives, all to no avail. Any help?

[Rich-M]

Registry tweaks? Uh oh! I have never seen any program that screws with the registry do anything but mess things up.
You can search the bios to be certain the nonsense like floppy disk check or boot sector antivirus etc are no enabled but if you have startup calmed down and are not using a real hog antivirus like Norton, this is actually probably normal.

[jimmybob479]

It was just two small registry tweaks - one that stopped windows from writing 8.3 versions of file names or something like that for DOS compatibility. Anyway, yeah, I removed floppy check from boot. Right now when I booted i didn't get that black screen- maybe there was an update i installed last night or something that helped fix things. And yeah, right now I am using norton as thats what I'm getting free for 60 days. After that runs out i'm going to buy nod32.

[wilson44512]

AVG is a good anti virus. and its free

[Rich-M]

Buy NOd32, you are on the right track and it's the best.

[chalna]

Originally Posted by jimmybob479

It was just two small registry tweaks - one that stopped windows from writing 8.3 versions of file names or something like that for DOS compatibility. Anyway, yeah, I removed floppy check from boot. Right now when I booted i didn't get that black screen- maybe there was an update i installed last night or something that helped fix things. And yeah, right now I am using norton as thats what I'm getting free for 60 days. After that runs out i'm going to buy nod32.

Could you be a little more precise to help me to reach the same result ?
which updates ? (the tweak about 8.3 names doesn-t solve the problem)
thank you.

[jimmybob479]

I don't remember precicely what fixed it, all I know is I've had my computer a few months now and it hasn't taken that long to load me to the desktop anymore. I can give you the links to the few sites i went to for tweaks and such which i think were the things that fixed whatever strange vista issue i was having.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2151211,00.asp
I remember doing something that defragmented just the book files.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2110598,00.asp

and I think i disabled a few services. Hope those links help, let me know.

[mciaramitaro]

AVG is good but try researching the trojan horse or virus you just quaranteened and AVG will say... ?? what, just be happy I removed it??