willay
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you what
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pow
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Jesus I cannot type for shit at the moment.
On your PC in your room, you no longer run Windows XP?
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willay
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correct, on my workstation at home I dont run windows.
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Jambo
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Ok so now, its fucking slow as fuck again. No different.
Startup menu is the same, and updates are manual 
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jamied
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my bro had this, it was his external HDD slowing it. You got many devices connected?
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Rich H
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Install CCleaner.
Run it to remove all the shite it finds, then defrag the harddrive.
Also in CCleaner, go to Tools>Startup. This will list everything that boots up with the PC - should be able to get rid of some of them.
Failing that, run a spyware programme such as Spybot S&D - may be something nasty starting up with the PC and slowing everything down.
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Jambo
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i have ccleaner and use it regularly, got no spyware on here as that was all checked last week.
I have an External HD plugged in via USB, but the power isnt on as i rarely use it
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Neo
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Check all the updates installed correctly. Also, if your the only person that uses the machine, disable the log in screen so it boots straight to your desktop.
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jamied
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try unplugging all usb devices and booting it
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Jambo
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ive checked for updates and installed them, i am now going to boot it again and see what happens
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oceansoul
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do you have AVG? i had it and it caused vista to run shit. removed it and its ran fine ever since. Apparantly vista n avg dont get on well lol
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Jambo
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whats avg?
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Neo
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avg is a spyware program
I know it sounds silly, but try cisk cleanup, disk defragment, disk check etc and see what happens.
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pow
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If its really that bad you might be better off just reinstalling Vista.
Something I can help with mate 
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willay
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AVG is an Anti Virus program.
you need to upgrade to XP.
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pow
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"upgrade" to XP 
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Jambo
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ok so still running slow ans was getting worse 
i installed all windows updates, deleted everything i didnt need and uninstalled all programmes i dont use, ran ccleaner then did a disk clean up and a defrag.
its quicker once Windows loads, but from power switch to logon screen takes an age.
Process:
1. press power button
2. Dell logo appears
3. random msdos style text flashes past
4. scrolling microsoft loading bar (green)
5. blank screen
6 blank screen
7. blank screen etc
takes 3-4mins on the blank screen... any ideas????
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Sam
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The problem isn't to do with your hardware (my PC spec is lower than yours and takes hardly any time to get into Vista even with all the programs I have installed).
What you need to be looking at is what programs are run at startup, and possibly what "services" are also run at startup.
You can find out what programs run at startup with CCleaner - run it, click on TOOLS on the left hand side and then STARTUP on the next column along.
You can see from my startup list all unnecessary programs have been disabled:
If you post a list of what's in that startup list or do a screen shot I can tell you what you can disable.
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Jambo
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aww Sam awesome ill get on that this afternoon!
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ENB
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Install malwarebytes and run a comprehensive scan.
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Jambo
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Ok Sam, heres the list...
PC No longer freezes and generally seems faqster to switch on but its still not what i would call any good!
Heres the list:
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Jambo
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(They where all active before i started but i desabled those ones)
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Sam
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You can probably disable the Dell Support Centre program as well, as it's only to do with Dell online support.
Once you've done that, click on the Registry icon and then Scan For Issues button and clean up anything on there. You'll probably need to do this at least 3 times to make sure all issues have been sorted, then reboot and see how you get on there.
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Sam
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I would also recommend keeping all desktop icons to a minimum (I only ever have a maximum of 3) - you could perhaps create a folder on your desktop called Shortcuts and put all your shortcut icons in there if you want to keep them all, that will help your system go into Windows a little quicker.
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Jambo
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Ok Sam i have cleaned the registry 2 or 3 times, all comes back clear, re-checked startuip progs and disabled the new additions thnaks to iTunes updates!!
Anyway, its still alot faster than it was but still has one major issue.
When windows starts, theres a gap of about 20 secs when i can click icons HDD whirrs/clicks etc like things are working and then BOOM. Frozen. No noise, as if the pc is not doing a damn thing, task manager doesnt work, no button presses reigster and it just hangs for about 2mins. Then all of a sudden it cascades back into life and all the buttons you pressed kick in and task manager loads etc....
Any idea??
Described quite wel in this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistamigration/thread/71cf5fad-f2f3-47bd-8d03-f71cb0a7c8ef
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