boot times

I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it. I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...

Editor’s Note: Last year, we shared Forrester Consulting’s Total Economic Impact (TEI) study of Windows 10 (June 2016) which found significant IT management cost savings, security and productivity benefits for Windows 10 customers. In December 2016, Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft...

Hi My computer updated to Anniversary last night and there are some big changes right off the bat. For one thing my computer is running really slow, and the taskbar keeps hiding itself and I can't find anyplace to turn it off. When I right click in this window the drop down window does not...

Hello, I've been having BSOD and can't really figure out what is going on. I have done a bunch of googling and just get more confused, lol. Losing mind. Need help. LOL. I have a Samsung Chronos Series 7 Model NP700Z7C-S01US. I tried to link to specs, but the forum wouldn't let me. (As I was...

Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

In Windows Vista, 7 & 8, there is a little be known defrag function that can drastically improve boot times under certain circumstances. If you open cmd and type defrag /?, you will see a list if available commands. However, there is a hidden one which is not shown and that is -b. This command...

> Task Mgr > Startup (tab) Items show amount of 'stress' they exert @ boot up. Each can be Disabled/Enabled. Most, to all, do not need to be running @ startup. You can select what is or is not from all to none or any amount in between; obviously, there is the most impact from those that...

You know, a lot has been said & written regarding Windows 8 boot time being fast & faster than Windows 7. I can offer a fairly reasonable A-B comparison. I am running x64 7 & 8, duel-boot, on the same box. @ this point their content, things installed & running, about the same. But, the boot...

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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...

Canonical released the latest version of the popular Ubuntu operating system next week. And while Ubuntu 10.04 may have a new look and feel, integration with the Ubuntu One cloud-based storage service, and improved boot times, it’s not without its issues. The folks at Phoronix have done some...

I'm running windows 7 RC and in the event viewer I get Error ID 100 associated with EVERY boot up for my pc since I built it (3 months ago. never looked before cause it works fine. looked out of curiosity this time) and error ID 200 for every shutdown. I'm wondering if anyone every/has this and...

System: Asus P5Q SE 4 GB corsair RAM ATI 4870 9.8 driver I used to get boot times of 20-25 seconds know I get boot times 40-60 seconds with event ID 100 and 200, but all its says is windows has started up and windows has shutdown I don't get. so then I did a fresh install and I'm still...

Ok, here is the skinny, Build 7100 64 HP 8530w Quad Core 8GB memory Quadro Video card Installed 7100 64 last night. Configured it for network domain use downloaded/installed Virtual PC with XP for the 64 bit flavor of win 7 Did not configure XP for network domain right away. Went to office...

Is windows 7 really version 7.0? If one opens a command prompt window one sees that it says it is windows version 6.1. Last time i checked 6.1 is not version 7.... So it would seem that MS is only using the name "7" like how they used the name "XP" or "Vista". I think this is to decieve people...

My computer has 4GB Ram. and a Dual-core CPU. But I still saw the difference before and after upgrade my Vista to Sp1. I counted the time of loading time from the logging to finish loading all my starting items. Before: 30Sec. After: 50Sec. Are your Windows Vista acting like that just...

I am certain that i am not the only one to hold this view, but i do feel in the minority. In my humble opinion, Windows 7 is nothing more than Windows Vista with more pieces of flair. One can make the case that Vista, while lacking flair, is not any less of an OS. The added features of...