RazerSauber

New problems have arisen! after doing a disk check Vista now bluescreens and wont boot at all... Any idea where to fix this? Guy in PC world said something about a recovery console and blah nlah nlah but I'm not sure what I'm doing. Cant boot in safe mode, have no other Sata enabled PC and no funding to buy a convertor usb doodah. Anybody know where i could get a boot disk for Vista? off to search google now..

I didnt do anything at all to change my system. I just clicked start typed it in and the problem was there. System restore doesnt work either, errors are found. Will do a disk check over night and post results. thnaks for the help, any other ideas are welcome!

I dont have a Vista disk, only one of those useless restore disks that formats my drive apart from Vista and re-installs missing bits. Thats not something I particularly want to do.. Any other options?

I'm having a little problem with Vista at the moment. Up until a few days ago everything was fine and dandy. But all of a sudden my search features dont work at all. The start search says "Search failed to initialize" and the search in Explorer is about as much use as a cream slice too. When I click search or return nothing happens. It just doesnt respond. (By this I mean the window is functional but i could hit enter a million times and nothing happens) I have searched the MS KB and followed a few different methods of getting it to work again but none of them have had any effect at all. Any help on this would be incredibly appreciated because I use the Start search feature a lot. Thanks, RS.

Will post a hijack log soon. My task manager is filled with much more stuff that that haha. ATi CCC is one, Avast, Ad-Aware etc. I also think that the steam process isn't needed since I dont play any games from steam I could reinstall but I've lost a few of my product keys for things and it takes quite a while to do. I also dont have anywhere to back up my data to and a lot of it I use regularly. Indexing has been well turned off. I did this during my searches through google, it has made some difference it has to be said but still its taking forever. Thanks for the help. Hijack log coming soon.

Thanks for the swift reply. I am aware the processor is slow, my mate essentailly gets something daft 32GHz out of his Mac Pro, twin quad core and stuff. Errr hard to say where its slowest really. Its not too fast on the welcome screen but its bearable. After that I'd say loading my desktop is the big killer. The welcome screen takes a minute or so to get to my background, longer to load the task bar and longer still to load the system tray template. After that the desktop just resets after the ATi CCC loads up which slows stuff down again.

Time has come to pass over my computer. It has seen many many games and applications which it will run fine, not a hitch. There is, however, a hitch getting to those programs. My boot takes forever to complete, I have easily timed it to over 12 minutes before I can launch an internet window (yes, I mean IE, get over it lol). My computer is by no means slow, it will happily run Crysis all day long with virtually no lag at all. I have googled this for weeks, following tips on how to reduce the time for boot such as turning off startup applications, defragment, disk clean, reg clean etc. But still I'm left waiting for ages before I can use my computer properly. I have read the forum rules and understand them and after googling things for days on end and getting nowhere I was hoping someone would just have a little snippet of information that would finally let my computer boot in sub 10 minutes. I'm a college student and dont need the blistering speeds of a 30 second boot but using photoshop can take up to 15 agonizing minutes before my document is ready to go. Any help would be appreciated, honestly! Specs are: Intel P4 3.2GHz HTT 1Gb DDR RAM 7200RPM IDE HDD (The less we say about capacity the less embarrassed I am ) 512Mb ATi Radeon x1650 AGP 8X Air cooling I am aware my system is pretty old and creaky but 12 minutes for the internet is madness.Any other specs that may help you will be provided. Thanks for any help guys!