Vista Lag Created 15 years ago2008-12-26 10:35:01 UTC by satchmo

I noticed something with Vista 64.

When I first boot up my computer, the OS loads rather fast, but even after the desktop appears, there would be a 10 second delay before I can do anything.

This means that if I tried to click on the Windows Start button or start a program, nothing would happen. But 10 seconds later, whatever that I did would occur.

Does anyone else experience this lag? Is this normal and expected for Vista?

it's the same on any pc :/

Remember that vista isn't the only thing that you're starting up. All your background programs are as well.
All your startup programs take up resources when they load up and check for updates etc.
Disable silly ones like the quicktime schedual and unnecisary rubbish like that.

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although, I can still do stuff while it's doing that. it's just slower.

Yeah, things will still happen, but with significant (and very annoying) delays.

I have tried activating and de-activating UAC, but that did not make any difference.

When I disabled the Realtek audio control panel on startup, it did help a little, but not much.

I have re-assigned my computer's IP and DNS server addresses so that they are static instead of dynamically assigned, and that also helped a little bit.

Maybe it's just something that we have to deal with. Oh well, I guess waiting 10 seconds each time I boot up won't kill me.

Yeah same problem here, as huntey said.

The less programs you havesetup to start in the background, the faster it'll pass. Quite annoying, but you'll probably get used to it eventully

I dont have this problem with VISTA on the laptop, although it sometimes lag after identifying the fingerprints, so i geuss it starts loading instantly.

I found this article, which is quite informative.

I also noticed that Vista accesses the HDD a lot more than XP. In fact, the HDD light blinks constantly when I am doing absolutely nothing with the computer.

Even after I disabled all the services, the HDD still flickers.

I'm not really sure, but i think vista always indexes stuff. But if you disabled the services, then i have no idea what could it be.

I think Spag is right there, i also noticed the constant flickering, although i thaught i had dumber vista down to something slighty usable.

I have turned almost everything in Vista off, so it's just XP 64-bit with a prettier interface.

The 64-bit part is important, because I have 8 GB of RAM. Regular 32-bit OS would not be able to handle that.

The constant HDD activity is due to all the crap Vista does in the background - indexing, defragging, SuperFetch, system restore, shadow copies, etc. These are all run as low-priority I/O threads, though, so they only execute while the computer is idling.