Help with vista boot and some othet things please!

josh2thad · Jan 31, 2007, 06:18 AM

OK, i have Windows Vista Ultimate Edition . When i boot it doesnt boot like XP did and just go into windows, it sits on a sceen for 10 seconds and asks me if i want to boot from a previous version of windows or Windows vista. Its as simple as hittin "Enter" but it drives me nuts!!!..Also i keep having some issues with com.exe ending with an error, but it didnt give me a code, seems to happen when im using alot of Network Traffic. Thanks for any help in advance, probably should just wait for service pack one before i bought it.

clicker666 · Jan 31, 2007, 07:10 AM

Scroll up to the Vista tricks and download Vistaboot software. That will allow you to fix your boot issues. I assume you are dual booting Windows XP and Vista.

Ummm... as far as your com.exe problem - you have a trojan. Try Googling com.exe and you'll see.

I don't believe a service pack would have helped in either case, the boot is working as it should - you have two OS's and it's giving you a chance to select from either. The trojan is likely being hosed by Vista's protection and generating an error.

josh2thad · Jan 31, 2007, 01:52 PM

Thanks for the help im going to try the vistaboot thing but im NOT dual booting from XP. thats why i was wondering why i was seeing that, its the only partition on the drive.

***Zardon*** · Jan 31, 2007, 02:22 PM

http://www.vistabootpro.org/ this will let you alter and fix any boot problems with vista. seems from what you told me its still thinking there is an old OS installed somewhere.

josh2thad · Jan 31, 2007, 02:47 PM

Got that all sorted out in about 30 seconds

Now i just gotta fix my boot screen, theres no icon, just a yelowish loading bar? Any takers lol? :P

clicker666 · Jan 31, 2007, 03:19 PM

The yellowish load bar is like the one in XP where it had the Windows XP screen and bar. They just didn't write Vista on it or anything. It should disappear and be replaced with a login screen. If not, you've got a problem.

NeoKrieger · Jan 31, 2007, 08:06 PM

yellow bar = working as intended

josh2thad · Jan 31, 2007, 09:44 PM

Working good then...but honestly i think once im done finishing a project im going back to xp, save this for when i get a faster system 3400+ and a gig of ram just inst enough and thats crazyness......

clicker666 · Feb 1, 2007, 07:21 AM

Hmmm... your system actually looks more powerful then mine, and I can't really see any reason (so far) for me to go back to XP. It could be the extra gig of RAM I have, hard to say. I'm certainly not finding it any slower than XP.

josh2thad · Feb 2, 2007, 05:38 PM

Just the fact that it takes 500MB Of memory sitting at the desktop. While playing games it was laggy a litte, also ATI Tool wont work :S

Monkeyboy · Feb 4, 2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by clicker666

Hmmm... your system actually looks more powerful then mine, and I can't really see any reason (so far) for me to go back to XP. It could be the extra gig of RAM I have, hard to say. I'm certainly not finding it any slower than XP.

That extra gig of RAM really does make a difference!

I still only have one gig and the system takes up over 60% of RAM when I have nothing loaded except antivirus software (using Ultimate x64). On the machines I have installed for people the 2 gigs of RAM really helps a lot, so I always recommend 2 gigs as a rule. If you're playing some heftly games and working with large graphics files etc. you may want to add even more.

josh2thad · Feb 5, 2007, 12:01 AM

ill switch back when sp1 comes out and i have enought to get a QUAD Core and 8 GB of ram

Jan 31, 2007, 06:18 AM	#1
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	Help with vista boot and some othet things please! OK, i have Windows Vista Ultimate Edition . When i boot it doesnt boot like XP did and just go into windows, it sits on a sceen for 10 seconds and asks me if i want to boot from a previous version of windows or Windows vista. Its as simple as hittin "Enter" but it drives me nuts!!!..Also i keep having some issues with com.exe ending with an error, but it didnt give me a code, seems to happen when im using alot of Network Traffic. Thanks for any help in advance, probably should just wait for service pack one before i bought it. __________________ www.proxywad.com *DeskTop* • Q6600 8MB Cache (400x8) 3.2 [Schythe Ninja Plus REV.b] • 4Gb DDR2 800 @888 [CL 5-4-4-12]• MSI P52 Neo 2 • Slient Cooling • XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition [600/1800] • Thermaltake Tough power • 2.250GB Segate [Storage] Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache Master• Lappy•Gateway MT6458 • AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz • 2x 1GB DDR 2 PC 5400 CL 4-4-4-12 • 15.4 X-tra Birght Widescreen [Glossy] 1280x800 ATI x1150 128 MB• 160Gb HDD • Wireless N 300mbps •

Jan 31, 2007, 07:10 AM	#2
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 328 Rep Power: 0	Scroll up to the Vista tricks and download Vistaboot software. That will allow you to fix your boot issues. I assume you are dual booting Windows XP and Vista. Ummm... as far as your com.exe problem - you have a trojan. Try Googling com.exe and you'll see. I don't believe a service pack would have helped in either case, the boot is working as it should - you have two OS's and it's giving you a chance to select from either. The trojan is likely being hosed by Vista's protection and generating an error. __________________

Jan 31, 2007, 01:52 PM	#3
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	Not Dual Booting Thanks for the help im going to try the vistaboot thing but im NOT dual booting from XP. thats why i was wondering why i was seeing that, its the only partition on the drive. __________________ www.proxywad.com *DeskTop* • Q6600 8MB Cache (400x8) 3.2 [Schythe Ninja Plus REV.b] • 4Gb DDR2 800 @888 [CL 5-4-4-12]• MSI P52 Neo 2 • Slient Cooling • XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition [600/1800] • Thermaltake Tough power • 2.250GB Segate [Storage] Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache Master• Lappy•Gateway MT6458 • AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz • 2x 1GB DDR 2 PC 5400 CL 4-4-4-12 • 15.4 X-tra Birght Widescreen [Glossy] 1280x800 ATI x1150 128 MB• 160Gb HDD • Wireless N 300mbps •

Jan 31, 2007, 02:47 PM	#5
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	Thanks Got that all sorted out in about 30 seconds Now i just gotta fix my boot screen, theres no icon, just a yelowish loading bar? Any takers lol? :P __________________ www.proxywad.com *DeskTop* • Q6600 8MB Cache (400x8) 3.2 [Schythe Ninja Plus REV.b] • 4Gb DDR2 800 @888 [CL 5-4-4-12]• MSI P52 Neo 2 • Slient Cooling • XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition [600/1800] • Thermaltake Tough power • 2.250GB Segate [Storage] Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache Master• Lappy•Gateway MT6458 • AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz • 2x 1GB DDR 2 PC 5400 CL 4-4-4-12 • 15.4 X-tra Birght Widescreen [Glossy] 1280x800 ATI x1150 128 MB• 160Gb HDD • Wireless N 300mbps •

Jan 31, 2007, 03:19 PM	#6
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 328 Rep Power: 0	The yellowish load bar is like the one in XP where it had the Windows XP screen and bar. They just didn't write Vista on it or anything. It should disappear and be replaced with a login screen. If not, you've got a problem. __________________

Jan 31, 2007, 02:22 PM	#4
*Zardon* lifeless Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 31,959 Rep Power: 3148	http://www.vistabootpro.org/ this will let you alter and fix any boot problems with vista. seems from what you told me its still thinking there is an old OS installed somewhere.

Jan 31, 2007, 08:06 PM	#7
NeoKrieger DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Illinois Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	yellow bar = working as intended

Jan 31, 2007, 09:44 PM	#8
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	ok good 2 go then Working good then...but honestly i think once im done finishing a project im going back to xp, save this for when i get a faster system 3400+ and a gig of ram just inst enough and thats crazyness...... __________________ www.proxywad.com *DeskTop* • Q6600 8MB Cache (400x8) 3.2 [Schythe Ninja Plus REV.b] • 4Gb DDR2 800 @888 [CL 5-4-4-12]• MSI P52 Neo 2 • Slient Cooling • XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition [600/1800] • Thermaltake Tough power • 2.250GB Segate [Storage] Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache Master• Lappy•Gateway MT6458 • AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz • 2x 1GB DDR 2 PC 5400 CL 4-4-4-12 • 15.4 X-tra Birght Widescreen [Glossy] 1280x800 ATI x1150 128 MB• 160Gb HDD • Wireless N 300mbps •

Feb 1, 2007, 07:21 AM	#9
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 328 Rep Power: 0	Hmmm... your system actually looks more powerful then mine, and I can't really see any reason (so far) for me to go back to XP. It could be the extra gig of RAM I have, hard to say. I'm certainly not finding it any slower than XP. __________________

Feb 2, 2007, 05:38 PM	#10
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	Just the fact that it takes 500MB Of memory sitting at the desktop. While playing games it was laggy a litte, also ATI Tool wont work :S __________________ www.proxywad.com *DeskTop* • Q6600 8MB Cache (400x8) 3.2 [Schythe Ninja Plus REV.b] • 4Gb DDR2 800 @888 [CL 5-4-4-12]• MSI P52 Neo 2 • Slient Cooling • XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition [600/1800] • Thermaltake Tough power • 2.250GB Segate [Storage] Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache Master• Lappy•Gateway MT6458 • AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz • 2x 1GB DDR 2 PC 5400 CL 4-4-4-12 • 15.4 X-tra Birght Widescreen [Glossy] 1280x800 ATI x1150 128 MB• 160Gb HDD • Wireless N 300mbps •

Feb 5, 2007, 12:01 AM	#12
josh2thad DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 431 Rep Power: 0	ill switch back when sp1 comes out and i have enought to get a QUAD Core and 8 GB of ram __________________ www.proxywad.com *DeskTop* • Q6600 8MB Cache (400x8) 3.2 [Schythe Ninja Plus REV.b] • 4Gb DDR2 800 @888 [CL 5-4-4-12]• MSI P52 Neo 2 • Slient Cooling • XFX 8800 GTS XXX Edition [600/1800] • Thermaltake Tough power • 2.250GB Segate [Storage] Western Digital 320GB 16MB Cache Master• Lappy•Gateway MT6458 • AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz • 2x 1GB DDR 2 PC 5400 CL 4-4-4-12 • 15.4 X-tra Birght Widescreen [Glossy] 1280x800 ATI x1150 128 MB• 160Gb HDD • Wireless N 300mbps •