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Windows 7: Windows 7 SLOW Boot - >5 min
Windows 7 SLOW Boot - >5 min
by scrandallsr - 11/13/09 12:39 PMOver last weekend I upgraded my Dell Studio XPS 435 system (i7, 6GB RAM, Radeon 4800) from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium. Ever since then it takes about 5 minutes on the Starting Windows (flag) screen, then gives me the login screen, then takes a few minutes more before I can do anything. BIOS and all hardware drivers are as up-to-date as possible. Any help? I specifically did the upgrade to avoid the hassle of a clean install/reinstall, so please don't suggest a clean install. But any other suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
Let's see what you supplied that runs on boot.
by R. Proffitt
- 11/13/09 12:46 PM
In reply to: Windows 7 SLOW Boot - >5 min by scrandallsr
Ouch. I can't see what's up.
There is no single cause or cure to slow boots. You get to dive in and dissect and examine each item.
My usual is to uninstall all programs that run at boot. That usually gets it done. But your post didn't reveal much.
Bob
While I'm working on that...
by scrandallsr - 11/13/09 5:12 PM In reply to: Let's see what you supplied that runs on boot. by R. Proffitt
What I've noticed is that when Starting Windows comes up and stays there forever, the hard drive light is on steady but there is no disk activity (determined by putting my hand on the system and feeling for head movement). This goes on for minutes - when the drive finally starts some activity, the login screen will follow shortly. The primary drive is a WDC WD7501AALS drive.So I really don't think it is a driver or program problem - I think it is something lower level.
Windows 7 Slow Bootup Problems
by peterdmar - 11/13/09 7:44 PM In reply to: Windows 7 SLOW Boot - >5 min by scrandallsrI've also encountered the slow bootup problem with Windows 7 on a fresh installation. On my computer on that installation, it took more than one minute stalling on the "Starting Windows" part with no hard drive activity during that time. In total it took about one minute and 50 seconds before it reached the login part and then another minute and a half before the computer is usable. Since I started with a fresh installation, I was able to figure out what caused the problem. As good as Windows 7 is, lots of the older programs that you may have on your computer are not compatible this is especially true if you're installing the 64-bit edition. In my case during the initial installation, everything works great. But gradually I end up with this slow bootup problem as I progressed with program installations. I had to do multiple reinstallations, until I managed to get it right. My next strategy to avoid reinstallation is to do a complete hard drive backup on another hard drive if the installation works fine before installing more programs. Doing it this way would make it possible to restore the installation, if anything should go wrong. Using this method I was able to weed out the culprit program. In many cases, Windows 7 would warn you with prompt if the program is not compatible. If you have at least one Seagate hard drive on board, you can use the free Seagate's Disk Wizard to do this cloning or restoring and backup as well as disk petitioning. With the reinstallation the total bootup time to usability is a little more than two minutes on my desktop computer using the Intel Core 2 Duo e 8500 clocked at 3.2 GHz.
Also when installing Windows 7 64-bit edition, be sure to do it on a single petition hard drive with the secondary hard drive disconnected during installation. I found out the hard way when the installation messed up the data storage on the storage hard drive. Luckily, I did a backup prior to the installation on my portable hard drive. What happened was after the installation, I was denied access to my data on the secondary hard drive. When I clicked on it a prompt would say "you do not have permission". I was able to restore permission to some of my files but not all. In the end, since I have a backup I decided to wipe the secondary hard drive and my "C" drive. and start over. From this experience that I learned, I would only install Windows 7 by itself disconnecting all other hard drive on the computer. It is okay to reconnect the other hard drives after finishing installation. Doing it this way, it did not deny me access to my files after the installation. This is the first time that I have experienced this behavior on an OS installation. This behavior is most likely caused by a much more stringent security level of Windows 7. On my previous Windows installation I have not used encryption for my data.
Slow boot with Windows 7
by Lancashire - 11/14/09 3:10 AM In reply to: Windows 7 SLOW Boot - >5 min by scrandallsrI just did an upgrade install of Windows 7 on my wife's computer and it has a fast boot. Perhaps you need to run a registry cleaner and a hard drive cleaner to eliminate some leftovers from Vista which might be slowing the boot. Also I would reevaluate the items in the startup to increase the boot speed. Eliminating any software in the startup that does not need to start with the boot can really help. The windows sidebar can also slow the boot considerably.
Clean up programs
by TaraS_WinTeam
- 11/19/09 2:45 PM
In reply to: Windows 7 SLOW Boot - >5 min by scrandallsr
You will want to check your performance and see if too many programs are running at start up, that can have a great effect on long it takes for your computer to start-up. See this article to optimize your computer for better performance: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Optimize-Windows-7-for-better-performance
Cheers,
Tara
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