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Vista Ultimate booth up

Nov 11, 2010 11:30PM PST

Hi
On Booth up with Vista Ultimate, I get a lot of rubbish, and some links just hang, before it finally arrives at the screen for me to use.
Is there something or a link I can use to by pass all this stuff, as it takes a long time to booth up

Windows Vista Ultimate
Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi Laptop

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Posted elsewhere?
Nov 12, 2010 8:47PM PST

Is this yours as well?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101113013911AA2h7ej

If so, there's good advice there, given so little information.

What is Booth up? At first I thought you meant, "On Boot Up", but then you talked about "some links just hang". Since links refer to internet links in a browser, I have discounted Boot Up because you must be able to get as far as opening your browser, but I still don't know what Booth up is.

Mark

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vista Ulimate Booth up
Nov 13, 2010 1:44AM PST

My apologies, its on boot up, meaning starting my computer by pressing the computer power key. As I am not computer literate, I will apologise profoundly, for any misleadings I have put on this link

is this yours as well......................No

All I wish to know is, how to stop all the rubbish that comes when the computer begins to power up. Any help in this matter would be very nice.
Thanks

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Ahh.
Nov 13, 2010 2:58AM PST

The PC makers found some owners do not want to see the INFORMATIONAL CONTENT such as the BIOS, Boot Manager and more as the PC boots. Companies such as Apple, Dell, HP changed this for such consumers.

Changing this on your average clone PC is not worth the effort since it can break something if the owner relies on others for support.

I suggest you ignore this. As they say "If it works, don't fix it."
Bob

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Yep I agree with Bob
Nov 13, 2010 4:54AM PST

Those messages you see, (on the black screen), before Windows loads is called POST, or "Power On, Self Test".

It's necessary for any computer on power-up to carry out a self test to check it is functioning properly, and to check what hardware components are connected, eg hard drives, CD drives, etc.

No way round that self-test I'm afraid.

Mark