Here are 2 easy steps to making vista boot faster.
The first thing that you can do is to make your background a solid color. To do this:
1) right click on your desktop
2) select personalise and then desktop background
3) go to solid colors and pick a color
The other was to make vista boot a lot faster is to stop windows sidebar from starting with windows. To do this:
1) go to your sidebar and right click
2) select properties
3) uncheck the start when windows starts box