programs load muich faster in vista than win7?

When`s the last time you defragged 7 ?

If a program is taking 30 seconds to open up on 7, then you have something wrong. I would defrag it a few times and run ccleaner.

There`s no reason for that to happen.

msongs said:

went to my second hd to boot vista for a change. win7 is on my first hd.

was shocked to see programs booted up on vista in the snap of a finger while on win7 they take 30 seconds or so. wondering why vista is so fast.....

Also you could check you startup programs in msconfig by going to - start - run - msconfig - startup: disable any programs that you do not need on start up

Even with a HDD a program should take no more then 2 to 3 seconds to open, faster once it`s loaded into memory.

mssong, I must say, you are probably the 1st person ever to say " Wondering why Vista is so fast "

OK then, do you have any programs running in the background ? Other then MSE.

Have you done what I suggested yet ?

The AV problem could be the reason. Do you run the same AV program on both systems.