Ok, so here is the story. I got an inspiron 6400 with a 2.00 GHz t7200 dual core, 2 Gb RAM and the ATI X1300 graphics card. I came preinstalled with XP and I got a copy of Vista through the express upgrade. I stayed with XP for a while until most of my programs were ready for Vista. 2 days ago i decided to put Vista onto my machine using the 'clean install' trick with an upgrade CD.

From the first instance i liked vista. I had no problems with programs because i knew what would work and what wouldnt so only put on what would. When running it was as quick if not faster than XP.

The only problem i am having, and hence the post, is the boot up and shut down time. It just seems to take too long. There is a big pause between the Vista loading bar and the logo when the laptop is first turned on, and when logging in it takes up to a minute sometimes for it to connect to the wireless network and start AVG Anti spyware (paid for version). In xp this loaded much much quicker. I tried stopping start up processes but Vista then complained that i had stop the Windows Configuration Utility when infact i had only stoped ATI Catalyst control Center and Sigmatel C-Major Audio.

Basically getting to the point, is there anyway to speed up the boot because to me a fast boot along with fast overall performance really matters.

Many thanks for all the help

Message Edited by thundgra on 06-19-2007 11:59 AM

Message Edited by thundgra on 06-19-2007 12:00 PM