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Update: Well, amazingly the drive functioned up until Oct 9, 2012, nearly 2 more years from the time I first reported the issue. Every morning I'd start the computer, then power down before Win7 started to load, and then power up again. The computer would then boot normally to the login...

Yup, my best guess its a hardware issue due to cold. On start up most mornings, when the computer has been off over night, the drive spins up with a faint clicking sound. Not sure if it's due to lack of power on power up (perhaps the power supply or cable is lacking when cold), but when I hear...

Thanks for the response. But not really applicable in this case. All the things that MS lists as causing a slow bootup would also cause a slow-down on the reboot. I did find that the Power Saving mode was set to Balanced and this gave it the option to save power by effecting USB and PCIe...

My office system is a Dell w/ Win7 and it's been running fine up until 1 month ago. Then it started this odd behavior. On a cold boot it runs about 5x to 20x times slower than normal, almost as if it's just running on a single core locked at 5%. Boot time to hit splash screen is 2.5 to 4.5...