slow boot

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere. I tried searching for it but only found posts unrelated to my situation. I have a fairly dated installation. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit with Service Pack 1. What the system has started doing is booting at a normal speed. It gets to what...

Hello, I've Googled this problem extensively but I can't seem to find anyone else who is experiencing the exact problem that I am experiencing. I built a very high-spec gaming PC last August and installed Windows 8. I upgraded to 8.1 later and did not experience any problems until I needed to...

Hello all, After cleaning out a computer I am still having issues with my boot up time, it takes over 3 minutes to get a workable desktop. it boots up to the login interface fairly quickly, but when I log in it takes really long for the desktop to show and when it does it seems to be busy doing...

I updated my HP laptop from Win 8 to 8.1, on the Win 8 no login. After Win 8.1 boots there is the opening screen, which I hit the esc key to clear and than put in my pin in the box. Then it gives me the opening screen again, back to the login screen and back to the opening screen and then to the...

I cleaned out an old laptop and re-installed win xp. Put all the usual programs on it. I joined it to our office domain. Now something weird is happening. If the office's network cable is plugged in it boots up fine and quickly too. If you take the network cable out it displays the desktop...

Hi, I thought this will be the best place to get working solutions I tried 2 different Copies of Win 7 ultimate 64 bit on my system (view my profile for system hardware) and both take about 10 seconds in black screen the it shows my user account I write my password then enter It takes about 3...

Hi, I've a Dell Inspiron Laptop with Windows 7, it usually completes booting (after loading all the start up softs) in 35-40 seconds, but few weeks back I gave my laptop for service (keyboard replacement due to a jammed key) and when I got it back it, It takes around 80-100 seconds to complete...

hy, I posted the problem in a german forum, but there had nobody an answear. I will try to explain it, and sry for my english, im from germany ;) So, since yesterday my computer starts slow. Normally its so fast that i dont se the "Welcome" Screen, but now its about 1 minute and after that...

I noticed this a couple of months ago that my boot time went from about 40 secs to now being over 100 secs on a good day . Done all the disable pragramms in msconfig to the point that I only have AVG still enabled . I have read loads of google to try and fix this but nothing works ...

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Hello everyone, First if I am posting this in the wrong section feel free to move it. My win 7 ultimate after a fresh clean install would start up in 1 min 15 sec. After a few months the start up time increased to 3 mins.30sec! After trying all the obvious solutions, Malware check, spyware...

I attempted to start in safe mode with the intension of running malwarebytes in safe mode but PC won't start in safe mode. Pressing F8 before splash screen but all I get is a small blue panel asking what drive to boot but whatever I do it always starts normally (apart from being mega slow to...

I don't know what's wrong with my baby but he's doing something crazy. The SSD that someone bought me is screwed. Meaning, it's slower than both of the HDD's that I have. I've since reformatted the SSD and I'm in the process of removing it from my computer. However, the 500GB isn't doing too...

Hi, I've been trying to fix a windows 7 laptop for a couple of days now but nothing I do seems to make a difference. It's taking an average of 80 seconds to boot up (acording to event viewer). So far I've removed 2 toolbars, unticked most of the startup items in msconfig, disabled search...

i just built this PC and win8 is taking an extremely long time to boot up. it gets stuck at the windows splash screen (see pic) for slightly over 2 minutes each time (i timed it). i've fully updated windows (see pic) along with drivers for all hardware. right before the windows start page...

As the title suggests really, always had crap boot times with my computer but I've now re-installed everything with an SSD and it's probably even worse. Any suggestions? Defrag perhaps? Or is that a massive no-no with SSD's... I've already ruined one before a year ago so I'm wary or how I deal...

Hi, everyone reading this! I've been having some problems with my computer's power saving mode for a long time now. Everytime I put my computer in power saving mode and when later trying to start it up has always resulted in a BSOD. Somehow that problem has been solved mysteriously some months...

A couple of days ago my OS hard drive has failed. I was using Ableton Live and it crashed, so had to reboot the computer. But instead of loading windows, I got "0xc000000f -- The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" error. In addition to this I have noticed that it...

Different to most peoples boot up problems, mine problem is that it takes about two minutes to show the boot up animation after the HP logo. All it shows is a black screen with a little flashing white line for about two minutes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

hi all i own a alienware area51 2.93ghz intel core 2 extreme x6800 any way over the last 3/4 days pc been crashing random blue screen todays being 0x0000124 it will not do the memory dump in the blue screen it will just freeze on it next time the pc boots up it is very slow and have to reboot to...