Troubleshooting - Slow Vista Computer

The main criticism about Windows Vista is the amount of computer resources need to perform everyday tasks. Even with a high powered computer there are certain things that will slow a computer down regardlesss what you have in your case. Built into Vista is a few tools and utilities that you can you troubleshoot slow boot times/start up along with performance issues.

Slow boot time/start up can be caused for various reasons such as Windows still trying to obtain an internet or network connection. In this case, there is four basic tools that will help you diagnose such problems in Vista:

Performance Self-Tuning and Diagnostics: Provides instrumentation and services that support user-driven and tool-driven diagnoses of performance problems, such as media glitching, slow application startup, slow system startup, and network-related delays.

This tool is built into Vista and can be run from

• Left click on the Start Orb
• Then go to the Control Panel, System Maintenance
• Performance Information, and Tools
• In the left window click on Advanced tools