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Vista Startup problems
Xas1953NC:
Re my last reply-I did the memory test after the computer had been on for 60 hours so I did not have to go through the aggro of getting it to startup with increments of hard shutdown and startup sessions to get it to finally bootup.
Today Sunday 08-02-2015 I did the 1st. startup of the day at 11.32 am and it actually powered up after 29m.30s without carrying out the usual shutdown and startup increments. At 1min after power up the Acer screen appeared then the progress bar for a few seconds. 1 min.50s later the Acer screen appeared again and 2min.30s later the choice of Repair/Start Normally appeared. I chose Start Normally which resulted in a full bootup ok. There were no further entries in the Problems and Solutions section. When the computer does finally bootup, further shutdown/restarts actions are not open to the foibles of the initial startup of the day and the average time to bootup from a shutdown/restart averages about 9 min.
Boggin:
Have you ever uninstalled anything from Device Manager or in Device Manager/View/Show hidden devices are there any yellow alerts, red crosses or downward black arrows ?
Xas1953NC:
Hi Boggin, No I have not unstalled anything. I have just now shown all hidden devices and made a screen grab to show those with the yellow and ! indicator. I have noticed something else so will overprint the grab with a bit of info and post it. Thanks.
Xas1953NC:
Here is the Show Hidden Devices screengrab
Boggin:
I also use a Logitech wireless mouse and other than the HID compliant mouse, it just lists the other as a PS/2 Compatible mouse.
I'm not familiar with those Portable Devices but plugging them in then uninstalling them from Device Manager then clicking on Action/Scan for hardware changes will reinstall their drivers, but create a restore point before doing so.
Just try uninstalling one at a time before Action/Scan for hardware changes and create a restore point after each if its reinstatement is successful.
When you uninstall some items from Device Manager, you may see an entry for Unknown Device but as drivers are reinstated, this should disappear.
If Windows is trying to load something on Start and it's defective or missing, that will add to the Boot time.
This was alluded to when you got that error message that the problem could be caused by a change in configuration.
When you right click on each prior to selecting Uninstall, click on Properties and under the General tab will be an error code for its status.
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