Slow startup problem

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My Gateway ML3109 usually runs lean and clean with only Office 2003 and no
startup programs listed in Defender Explorer. Recently it has begun to slow
down signifcantly on startup.

I found errors logging in the Diagnostic-Performance>Operational Event Log,
usually with a Critical 100 Event about startup degradation, accompanied by
multiple Errors about indiviual apps/drivers taking longer to complete
resulting in performance degradation in system start-up process. Most recent
are Event 105 "Foreground optimizations (prefetching) took longer to
complete, resulting in a performance degradation in the system start up
process," Events 102 "This driver took longer to initialize, resulting in a
performance degradation in the system start up process": HdAudAddService,
PptpMinport, Ndistapi, NdisWan, AgereSoftModem; Events 101 "This application
took longer than ususal to start up...": LogonUIxe, mmc.exe, svchost.exe,
etc. Each time it seems to be different services, drivers and applications
which are delayed and they individually troubleshoot ok.

I was advised by Gateway to do a clean reinstall which I have done twice
with no change in the situtation, leading me to believe it might be a setting
in the Boot or BIOS which is incorrect. It is the same with or without my
Avast antivirus. Any help would be much appreciated because this is ruining
what was once a fast notebook.
 
I was advised by Gateway to do a clean reinstall which I have done twice
with no change in the situtation, leading me to believe it might be a setting
in the Boot or BIOS which is incorrect.

Or your computer has a hardware problem.

You might try running a FULL chkdsk to check your drive for errors.
 
Yes I ran Vista's 60 second diagnostics and it said there was excessive disk
paging and cue-ing. I had this warning once before on a pc which had too
little memory for VIsta, so I have ordered another 512 mb ram for the
notebook. But that doesn't explain why it ran fast for almost a year with
rapid startup and only 512 ram, and now is degrading markedly at startup.

I will run chkdsk tonight and also see if it can run the Gateway-scan
bootable CD "Lifeguard" disk analysis and repair scan. Any other
suggestions? Thanks.
 
Yes I ran Vista's 60 second diagnostics and it said there was excessive disk
paging and cue-ing. I had this warning once before on a pc which had too
little memory for VIsta, so I have ordered another 512 mb ram for the
notebook. But that doesn't explain why it ran fast for almost a year with
rapid startup and only 512 ram, and now is degrading markedly at startup.

You've been running Vista on 512mb of RAM.

Hmmm. I know Home Basic will run fine on 1G - because I had only that
much for a few months. But 512MB is almost unheard of, even though a
lot of early Vista machines came with that.

RAM is cheap. If your board will handle it, you should consider
buying 2Gigs for it and remove the original 512 stick.
 
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