vista boot loading

hey guys iv got windows vista ultimate and was wondering how fast your system takes to boot up and take you to the sign in screen mine seems to take forever and i really dont know why. when i had xp my pc was loaded up in seconds and now i have to sit around waiting for time to pass

my specs are
500 watt thermaltake tr2 psu
xfx 8800gt ddr3 8800GT alpha dog extreme edition
amd athlon 64X2 4200+
2gigs of ram 333mhz each (this is where i thought the fault would be)

vista rates my pc at 5.0 and i assumed it would be giving me the 20 second boot times like iv seen all over the place

thanks a lot hope to hear from you soon

Um, if I were to guess, it takes me around 10 -20 seconds in total to load up to the login screen.

Then another 5 to finish login.

*green with envy*

hey do you any idea why my pc seems to take so long? lol 20 seconds would be like a dream to get this up and running

*green with envy*

hey do you any idea why my pc seems to take so long? lol 20 seconds would be like a dream to get this up and running

rainbowboy666

I'm not really paying attention when it starts up, but I was counting from when the Vista load bar comes up (otherwise it's probably more like 20 -30 seconds).

I've a Q6600, and my PC is pretty new, so it most likely doesn't have the crap that eventually slows down PC's over time. Try a defrag, and how many startup programs do you have?

erm nod32 and live messenger

the problem is i get my post screen and then it goes black and about a minute later i get theload bar and then it goes black againanother minute passes and i get my cursor apppear that lasts around 10 seconds it goes black and i get my login screenlol i really didnt think vista would take so long. imight buy2 gigs ofram (800mhz)could help with the loading process