At the point where the Vista logo appears it wouldn't be unnecessary programs running, but I wonder if your CPU is taking on 100% utilization by some process. Do a ctrl + shift + Esc and check under both Performance and Processes. See what the CPU and RAM usage numbers look like. Also, try booting into Safe Mode (press F8 during boot) and see if the same problem occurs...that should also weed out the unnecessary Windows processes. It won't cure it but it should give us a better idea of what's riding on the back of a snail.
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John
I have a very strange issue when trying to install Vista. The install actually goes along rather quickly without errors but before I get to the logon screen, things come to a CRAWL! Both the audio and video are extremely choppy. The circular Windows Vista logo slowly fades in at about 4 frames per second and the audio is ridiculously choppy, taking 20+ seconds to get past this logo and to the logon screen. Once logged in, everything is still slow, maximizing/minimizing windows takes forever, etc. I figured this was the video drivers, so installed the latest drivers for my 8600GT, no change. Updated the sound card drivers, no change. No conflicts in device manager to point me in the right direction. I've searched the web and I can only find a similar problem stemming from VIA RAID storage drivers - I installed the latest from VIA, no change again.
Does anyone out there have any ideas? I'll be very grateful for any assistance!
Specs:
Gigabyte Nvidia 8600GT - Motherboard: MSI P4M900M2-L, Pentium 4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, Vista Ultimate.

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