boot time

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...

Greg Shultz shows you how to use some of the new features in Windows 7's Event Viewer to investigate a slow boot time. More...

I"ve read several of the entries here about getting rid of unnecessary services and speeding up boot time...... I've gotten rid of some of the services....... Is there any way to have Windows 7 provide a timing of what it's starting up for every program, service, and/or whatever? I'm talking...

Hello, Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on my brother's PC. He had been using Vista previously. Upon booting to the installer, the "Starting Windows" screen would appear with the animated windows logo. This screen took 20 minutes of waiting to get past, so for ages I thought it wasn't going to...

System is a desktop with Asus p6T motherboard, i7 920 overclocked to 4GHz, 6GB of DDR3 memory running at a bit over 1520 MHz, 250GB Seagate SATA II drive for O/S, 4-1TB Seagate SATA II drives, DVD burner, a couple external drives and so on........ O/S is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Boot time...

Tale of 2 Computers Dell Dimension 4700 Pentium 4 4gb Ram Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit. Boot Time: Power on to Starting Windows Screen 8 seconds Power on to up and running 38 seconds Home Built System ASUS P7H55D-M EVO Motherboard Intel i5-750 CPU 4gb G-SKILL Ram...

My laptop takes 10-15 minutes to present me with a login icon. How should I troubleshoot this?

Ubuntu 10.04 First Thoughts - Quandy Factory 1 Boot Time ↑ This is the most immediate, obvious improvement in 10.04. True to their commitment, the Ubuntu developers have made big strides in shaving as much as they can off startup and shutdown times. Startup is visibly faster than 9.10...

Can someone please take a peek at my bootlog below and let me know if there is anything that may be causing the boot time to be VERY SLOW. It's so slow that you need to measure how long it takes on a geological timeline (you know the one that has a caveman on one end and an astronaut on the...

By Terry Blount This is a round up of processes, services and features that I have turned off. I have tested these for months under Windows 7. My system is faster and stable and has far less overhead than the day I installed Windows 7. My boot time as recorded by BootRacer is down to 17...

Hi guys! I have searched for a guide to make shortcuts to gadgets e.x "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe" /showcalender Have´nt find anything. Do anyone of you know how I can do this? I got an active desktop gadget that I want to start every boot time even if anyone has closed it...

I have this problem and have found it expressed on many web sites that windows 7 takes a lifetime to load. It takes my brand new microsoft Toshiba T135-s1312 which I bought at the microsoft online store about 15 minutes to fully load. Occasionaly a message appears that says windows is having...

Running Windows 7 Home Premium on the Toshiba T110/00D, and despite using msconfig to stop some of the many programs from loading up at boot time, I still find that it boots up in 2 minutes, which is still pretty slow for me. I was just wandering what else I can do to speed Windows 7 up...

Running Windows 7 Home Premium on the Toshiba T110/00D, and despite using msconfig to stop some of the many programs from loading up at boot time, I still find that it boots up in 2 minutes, which is still pretty slow for me. I was just wandering what else I can do to speed Windows 7 up...

OK, It's in! I used Paul Thurrott's procedure and everything just worked. Blew away the Lenovo Vista Ultimate 32 bit partitions and expanded freed up space into 1 320GB partition now running W7 Pro 64 bit. I plan on shrinking the 320 down create a data drive / partition later. So now that it's...

I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista and I have noticed the boot time is slower than it was with Vista. I tested my bootup time through a program and it took 194 seconds for my comp to boot up. My question is would making a clean install of Windows 7 solve this problem and make boot up times much...

Hi everyone! Hope someone can help me! I've upgraded my Vista Home Premium 64-bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit two days ago. Under Vista boot time was about 40 seconds, now it is about 90 seconds!!! What can I do? It was an Upgrade CD but I choose Clean Install. Are there some settings to...

Hi, I have a Toshiba p205-s6287, intel duo processors, 4gb RAM. I am running Home Premium 64-bit. After doing some minor tweaks, my boot time is ranging between 67 and 87 seconds, as measured by the events view log. I am only running a few programs on startup, ie, carbonite, roboform, MSS...

Hi guys, I have a brand new Acer Dual core 64x Laptop running with 3gb RAM. I have just done a clean install of Win7 (not upgrade). First boot was a while but I guessed that was because the operating system was setting up. I then ran the Updates from IE8. Now when I reboot it just takes...

I have upgraded from Vista to Windows 7! The question that I would like to ask is how come the start up process takes so long from time I logon until the programs are loaded?Link Removed