boot time

My PC takes approximately 90 seconds to boot! The HDD constantly reads/writes when windows has booted.My system:Win7x64, i7 920, gtx 560, 6 gig ram, Western digital 650 gig HDD, Asus p6 deluxe MB.

We've touched on the topic about the speed of Win-8 compared to XP and Win-7, but tonight I decided to do something about that. I moved Windows 8 from an old 80 gig Sata II drive to a new Seagate SATA III (6GBM) drive on a SATA III controller card. Windows XP would not run on the SATA III...

I have had windows 7 installed from an OEM disk for about 6+ months. I have always had auto updates disabled. last night I shutdown the computer just to find 98 updates being installed. I was just a little disappointed, for a couple of reasons. one reason is it seems to take longer to boot after...

I recently published a commentary/news video listed here about Windows 8 boot times. People have been arguing ever since. One guy even claims he hasn't updated his computer ever since installing Windows 7 to improve his boot time. Too bad he has missed out on stability and reliability...

Hello everyone. This is Mike from Windows8Forums.com. We some very good news for Windows 8 enthusiasts, as new benchmarks have been released from Microsoft Corporation. These benchmarks indicate that Windows 8 boots significantly faster than Windows 7 in every possible realm. We have thirty (30)...

Over past week or so my system boot-up is taking forever and occasionally just hangs with cursor top left...drive flashes occasionally..I wait..then shut down..Press F8 on start up and use system start repair..seem to work no missing files reported .. I have used sfc /scannow ..all is well...

Microsoft is coming with new OS windows 8. And there is lot of leaked information about the Windows 8 in the Market. Here are some power point slides of windows 8. In real we don't know if these are real or not. but Microsoft didn't say anything about these slides.But after seeing these...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm having an unusual slow login problem that is very difficult to diagnose. I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop and I have been getting it set up and removing some of the bloatware that Toshiba installs. Over the last few days I...

Taiwan-based Insyde Software has announced that it is working on BIOS solutions supporting the UEFI (unified extensible firmware interface) standard for Microsoft's next version of Windows. Insyde added it has developed a technology dubbed "Blink Boot" to accelerate PC boot times significantly...

Hello everyone, This is one of several articles that are upcoming from me, your Public Relations manager :) This article will focus on a less known and extremely useful application developed to dramatically reduce the time your PC takes to startup, with a user friendly and ethnocentric...

I have just moved to a brand new DELL Latitude E6520, UEFI-enabled. I was told that UEFI is the way to go, solves the 2TB storage limit, shortens boot time to fraction seconds, and more. Once configured Windows 7 Ultimate 64 on top, I have discovered that: - Boot time is same as with Legacy...

Hi, everyone.. i am a newbie here. and i wish to ask experts here to help me. i have a Notebook Asus N82 and i change my harddisk (5400rpm 640Gb) to 320Gb 7200rpm. I using Seagate hd to clone all files. and boot... it works normally except starting up when windows flag appear.. it will takes...

Hello Win7 Forums: I have been experiencing extremely long start times for the last 6 months and have run out of ideas solving it. Here are the steps I have taken so far in an attempt to fix the issue: - weekly full virus scans using SAS, Norton 360, Malware Bytes - CCleaner and TweakNow...

Windows Explorer on my wife's computer (running W7 Home Premium and completely up to date with Windows Updates) takes 4 or 5 minutes to finish running right after a power-up boot. The hourglass icon seems to sit there forever, but the folders and files finally appear. Later, when running an...

Bill Detwiler shows you how to use the Windows 7 Event Viewer to track down potential causes of long boot times. More...

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...