Windows Vista slow startup due to svchost.exe and large HOSTS file
Recently I reformatted my PC, installed Vista OS and a bunch of other software, and noticed that Vista took well over a few minutes to fully startup. The delay was resolved by killing the svchost.exe process in Windows Task Manager (the one that uses the most memory; it's normal to have multiple svchost processes). That led me to pinpoint the culprit and full solution...








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