Vista 40 second boot to 60 seconds over night

[bigdogchris]

My OS went from around 40 seconds booting, till 60-70 seconds boot, overnight. Nothing was adjusted. All I did was grab the new IE7 security fix. I uninstalled it and it still takes that long time to boot. I rebooted several times to insure nothing was installing or configuring, and I also shut down and powered back on a few times.

Any ideas what could double a boot time overnight?

[YeuEmMaiMai]

hdd problems?

[bigdogchris]

Well I also installed Firefox 3.0.5 (from 3.0.2).

I used system restore and it's fine again, back to how it was yesterday (rolled back about 3 days though).

I know it sounds stupid but the IE7 critical patch and Firefox 3.0.5 are the only 2 things I installed yesterday. There's no reason they would cause that problem.

[bigdogchris]

Well went back to being slow so I restored to that same date again, and it's better again, but I lost some files. I thought system restore was supposed to not effect files. I have readme's etc that came with stuff i've downloaded but some stuff is missing.

I also disabled SuperFetch just to see if it was what was making it run slow and man does it really slow down the OS with that off.

I'm also wondering if my OC is messing with it. I've been fine for months. Just OCed a week ago and prime tested it for 18 hours stable, also did the intel test a few times, stable. But now the OS is acting funky. I wonder if ...?

[DeaconFrost]

This might not help but my boot times fluctuate all the time. Sometimes it is fast, sometimes it is slower, but it is only my boot time, so I can't say I really put much thought into it. As long as it runs fine once it is booted, that's all I care about.

[nitrobass24]

Dont turn off your computer....just put it in standby.

[bigdogchris]

Dont turn off your computer....just put it in standby.That's putting a band-aid on gunshot wound.

I have been shutting the system off for the past 2 or 3 days where normally I left it on all the time. Maybe that has something to do with start up somehow, since it just started doing this yesterday.

[bigdogchris]

Well I dove a little deeper in and was checking out the Vista performance logs.

svchost.exe
explorer.exe

Seem to be listed multiple times over the past few days that are not booting as fast as they should or have caused windows performance degradation. Trying System file check now and may have to repair.

It's nice that Vista has these logs, pretty dang handy.

[shagvirus]

wow 20 seconds more boot time. guess im not that [h]ardcore to care.

currently do not have a pc so my boot time is pretty long