Joyofsox wrote:Can you set it up to go into 'hibernate' mode instead of turning it off completely? I do this on my Dell laptop and it is up to speed in about 10 secs instead of 2 mins.
+1
Also, some cheaper units struggle with Vista. You may need an extra 512mb or 1Gb of RAM to speed things up. This won't help too much with booting but will speed up everything else. Vista is horribly resource hungry but at least it's pretty.