Slow boot? try uninstalling Rescue & Recovery

[yggdrasil]

I was investigating what was causing my Vista bootup to be so slow. The hard disk seems to be the main bottleneck on bootup so I was looking for ways to reduce disk thrashing without disabling beneficial Vista services like Superfetch and indexing. I ended up doing the following:

1. Reboot your system and leave it at the desktop until the hard disk stops thrashing (5-10 minutes on my machine).

2. Go to the Task Manager, click the button "Show processes from all users" and go to View > Show Columns and add the columns "IO Read Bytes" and "IO Write Bytes". This will allow you to see how many bytes each process has read and written to the hard drive.

Two processes stuck out: tvt_registry_svc.exe and logmon.exe, both of which are associated with Lenovo Rescue & Recovery. Between them they were reading over 300 MB of data on my system within a few minutes of booting up. This causes a big slowdown because the hard disk is already being taxed 100% by the loading of many Vista services, Superfetch, indexing etc.

For backup I will begin to use Vista's built-in Backup and Restore Center instead of Rescue and Recovery.

Repeat the above steps and post any processes you've found that read or write an excessive amount of data.

[ivanhoe]

Agreed. I found the same problem when I got mine. Uninstalled it and it made a noticeable difference.