Okay so when I turn my computer on, when it gets to the black screen (on vista) where it says microsoft corporation with the gren loading bar, i can see that where the light flickers/flashes when its loading something... it doesnt start flashing until a minute after the screen comes up.... why?  I have seen on other comps it starts right away..What doesn't start flashing?

Install/run/download anything before this happened?No I didnt, it justs seems to happen.  and truthfully IDK what its CALLED lol its the light that flashes when ur doin somethin lol i guess its the light for the processor or w/e but it seems to take too long.... somebody said maybe the hard drive takes a long time to respond?Ooh, are you talkin about the light on the computer?

When you turn the computer on, does anything come on? (like the manufacturer logo)well it doesnt get to the windows logo... it shows toshiba., then gets to the part with "microsoft corp." and the green loading bar, and theres the little lights like for the battery, power, etc. and the one that blinks when its processing something, doesnt start blinking for like a minute. which im pretty sure it should pretty quickly since all other laptops i sell with it run quite quickSo there is significant lag time before windows boots. I'm not sure why but you could try running a System Defragmenation and see what happens.Not too sound like a jerk, but I ran that, and it didnt seem to make a difference i hope its not a hardware problem I wouldn't think so, but we can't discount any possibilities.

Has the problem been running ever since you got the laptop or just recently?

How much RAM do you have on your computer?Well its got 2GB which isnt BAD, and its quite recent.  I havent REALLY put anything major on it, its been doin it since i pretty much got it.How does it boot to Safe Mode?hmm didnt try that....lemme try now and ill let you know.Ok so it was slow in safe mode as wel.... the last thing it said was loaded was crcdisk.sys and then it stopped for a while(like 30 seconds) then started up againWhen you click ENTER upon choosing Safe Mode, you should see a whole bunch of code.
Then it will pretty much freeze for about 30 seconds and then load Windows.

What do you mean by 'started up again'.
Do you mean it took longer to load as well?ok after it said crcdisk.sys was loaded, the light for the processor stops and it just sits on the screen with all of the loaded files or w/e it is for about 30 seconds before it moves on and starts flashing againHonestly, I really don't have a good picture. I understand, it's probably not easy to describe it.