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Options for Logging On
UnswoleLilDude webmas...@maximumpcguides.com microsoft public windows vista general Try booting it in it's Last Known Good Configuration. http://www.maximumpcguides.com/windows-vista-hangs-at-a-black-screen-when-booting-up/ "Canadian_Guy" <Canadian_...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

Vista Home Premium Boot-up options
I changed the hard disk boot priority, to the disk XP was intalled on as the first, and it booted right up into XP. When I restard, I hit escape to enter boot menu, choose the hard disk that Vista is on, and it boots into Vista. Whew, I was nervous there for a few minutes, again, many thanks!

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
(FWIW I don't use Vista.) Cross-posting for convenience. Good luck Robert Aldwinckle --- I have tried booting up with F8 and selecting the enable logging, but it fails to create a log. I thought maybe it was my nvidia raid driver, but the disks check out with the onboard tests as well as opening a command window

Vista Boot-Up Sequence - Power On, Wait, Download Spyware, Wait
It would be like altering your framebuffer boot splash screen, which until relatively recently required a kernel patch on linux, thus if screwed it up, your system won't function. (Pity him.) Pitty you that you don't understand what it is you think you do. So... it works in Linux but not in vista?

Problem booting up laptop running Vista when overseas
HeyBub hey...@gmail.com microsoft public windows 64bit general microsoft public windows vista general Kue2 wrote: My Vista seems to be getting slower & slower booting.Need advice(tips) on how to speed up booting process. Thanks Don't shutdown. Do "sleep" instead.

Vista Boot-Up Sequence - Power On, Wait, Download Spyware, Wait
Well, yes actually lots I am forcing my SO at home to run Windows Vista on a Centino 900Mhz laptop with 512MB of RAM. They're great for booting up your own custom Linux OS on someone else's machine without touching their hard drive, but they make it a bit hard to save your updated documents etc.

Vista wont boot up fully,shutting down screen where logon box shou
Anyway, other than the long boot times, I have been unable to detect any other problems after I boot up and log in. This should shave a few seconds off the initial boot time. Re the longer delay, where does it occur in the Vista boot process? When I boot Vista and the OS starts loading, the green bar indicator

Vista wont boot up fully,shutting down screen where logon box shou
When booting up my laptop with Windows Vista it doesnt boot up fully. It looks like it is booting up normally, then when it comes to the screen where you should logon, the shutting down screen appears. It doesnt actually shut down, its just frozen on that screen. If anyone has any ides or suggestions they would be

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
Ron Martell ron.mart...@gmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general "T5" <noans...@hotmail.com> wrote: I have two instances of Vista listed in my boot sequence even though I dont have vista installed anymore. This is what I have listed on boot 1. Vista >>>>>>>> this is a failed install and boots to a fault page,

Problem booting up laptop running Vista when overseas
Our mail setup now handles up to a half million emails per hour, with spam filtering. Wonder exactly what low-spec old-tech machines numbnuts thinks are going to handle that? Hadron often says stupid shit like that. He should be smarter than that, but he lets his emotions take over too much IMHO.

Vista takes 10 mins to boot up!
It boots fine till the point where the Windows Vista logo should appear (ie, after the progress bar), after which everything just freezes up. Turning on boot logging shows that all drivers loaded properly. I tried all options in Safe Mode, Recovery Mode (by booting from the Vista Setup DVD), disk scan, memory scan,

System restarting itself during booting up Vista DVD
Adrian Brown adr...@apbcomputerservices.co.uk microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Ill certainly give that a go - many thanks "philo" The PC's lock up when trying to access programs etc. Vista takes ages too boot up etc. Has anyone else had this problem, anyone got any ideas on how to start to

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
"Neil Harley" wrote: Bec664 wrote: I just bought a DELL E521 PC with 1 Gig ram DDR2 5300 , decided to add 1 Gig more memory DDR2 4200 where from the old system, after install Vista boot up slow and black screen. After removing it no problem. Tested the system only run at 1 Gig, do I need to reinstall to recognise

Vista 64 Bit Booting Up In The Middle of the Night
To your point about my point of speeding up a Vista 512MB machine up with ReadyBoost "not saying much, compared to the performance of some popular Linux systems on What could be simpler than plugging in a USB drive into a PC and having it automatically improve performance booting up your own custom Linux OS on

boot up problem with vista desktop
Dhana Dh...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup How do i set up the time out limit? "Don" wrote: Dhana wrote: Hello, I installed a clean install of Vista Premium from Windows XP. Now everytime i boot up my computer i have to pick an option whether to boot up from Visa,

Vista Boot-Up Sequence - Power On, Wait, Download Spyware, Wait
Thomas Tho...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi Dwarf Thanks for the advice it worked perfectly.My system is running smoothly with If you able to boot up into Vista then back up all of your data to removeable media and check that it has been successfully backed up.

Setting up Vista Ultimate 64 bit do dual boot with XP Pro 32 bit
Vista won't boot up! Please read! HELP! By Jack0fDiam0ndz Posted February 20, 2008 15:32:42 Ok i recently downloaded bootskins on vista on 2/18/08. i download some bootskins and decided to try it out so i restarted my computer. when booting it says Windows error recovery blah blah which mode do you want to boot in

Error code Ox0000007b upon final boot-up of Vista Beta 1
SOLUTION delete pending.xml from windows/winsxs under vista U have to boot with install disk though - repair computer and go to command prompt - else u get My question is Can i replace some files from windows.old over the new windows install in explorer that would sort out the registry to boot up successfully.

Volume, Network and Power Icons and Booting up with Vista
Shop manager Aaron Kaplan said they were prompted to put it up because so many people were having problems with Windows Vista, including compatibility My machine takes a reasonable time to boot up-- more like 5 instead of 30 minutes. It's only shutdown that's a little dicey. Sometimes I will just used the

Strange vista problems...
I would like to ( for a short time ) set it up so that my xp installation is still available should I run into any unforseen software issues. Normally, the older OS must be installed first unless you wish to acquire and use some 3rd-party partition and boot management utility. (In which case you have to follow the