blindartist

Ok so Ive finally just had enoug of this, Im not sure why its happening but its getting on my nerves.

Windows 7 takes ages to boot, it takes maybe a minute going through the black windows screen and then the blue welcome screen and then a solid 5 minutes after the desktop has loaded of constant HDD activity which renders the computer useless until it finishes whatever its doing.

Anyone run into this before? what the hell is it doing?

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Regeneration

Run a CHKDSK on your primiary HDD. And check out what's running on startup.

blindartist

Yea theres nothing out of the ordinary in startup and the system runs fine and stable after that point so I doubt there is any hard drive issues.

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Uapp

Do you have ANY external drive connected at all? Also check the boot priority in the BIOS.

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nCaine

I have it the same , not 5 minutes , but long .

And i know what is causing this

WD Caviar 800 , my main HDD . Probable 10 yers old . It dont have any bad sectors , but its runs sloooowmo.

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blindartist

But the driver performs fine after the boot, and it never used to do this just started a few months ago, there must be something that the OS is doing during this period, could it be loading the pre-fetch?

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archwarrior

Hi There, Ive had this problem before, and been an advanced PC user even I could never isolate the problem, and even repairing Master Boot Record was to no avail, I think its a driver issue, USB related, but it could be a variety of issues, I ended up living with it until I finally decided to re-format.

What I have discovered was no matter how much software you uninstall or how many drivers you erase it still wont go away, so I advise you do not even try, if its bothering you that much, reformat, that was the only solution I could find after hours and hours and uninstalling & re-installing drivers, repairing MBR etc all to no avail, its not prefetch or superfetch either, in-fact you will be amazed of what it is not, and it could be a trojan horse or even a virus. I concluded that it was a driver issue but registry entry was still causing the problem but isolating one registry entry could take days.

Honestly if its bothering you that much backup and reformat, that's what I did in the end, its annoying but windows tends to be very annoying at times. GOOD LUCK.

archwarrior

Ah Yes!!! I do remember now, it was Windows 7 SP1 & Windows Update that originally caused me this major headache, here is a few tips you could try, uninstall all video drivers and I mean all of them, download "Driver Cleaner" and make you uninstall both ATI & Nvidia Drivers and clear all related registry entries by using a powerful reg cleaner, and see if that's works.

Try booting is safe mode and see if its halts at post, if so, its definitely a windows issue, if not its a driver issue.

I do remember having a major headache with this and like I say in the end I thought "fuck it reformat" which did solve the problems might I add.

blindartist

Hmm, windows update you say? could it be an issue with windows update scanning everything to see your versions? I should try disabling it entirely to see if that does anything.

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archwarrior

Hi disabling windows update will not do anything, as all it does it checks the updates installed and downloads additional updates from the net.

its a minefield trying to figure it out, you could try repairing the MBR (Master Boot Record) from Windows Installation Disk, to go into a DOS (Command Prompt) Window but its risky and quite complex, so if you do not know what you are doing then do not try as you you wont be able to get back into windows.