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| Thread ID: 117447 | 2011-04-19 08:01:00 | Slow startup: Windows calling for a reinstall? | LynX (14542) | Press F1 |
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| 1195568 | 2011-04-19 10:15:00 | Check on this please -- click start, type in eventvwr - click it in the results to open - once open on the left, near the top, expand windows logs - click on system, scroll down the list, "usually" if theres a drive fault with bad sectors / Blocks, you will see clumps of red Errors with the word "Disk" as the source - thats not a good sign. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1195569 | 2011-04-19 10:56:00 | Oops, no good . It didn't seem to make startup significantly faster . Probably it wasn't a major issue to start with . Did I mention my laptop's only a few months old anywhere? Or I would be guttered big time if the disk did have bad sectors . Also, I've checked Event Viewer . There's only one error out of, like, 10 informations, and it doesn't have anything to do with disks anyway . I'm curious about this: does anyone else notice this strange phenomenon with Windows? I haven't used Linux for long or frequent enough to detect anything, but I can never find out why the computer's startup time degrades over time . @Speedy: thanks :p |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1195570 | 2011-04-19 11:24:00 | If the Disk is Ok, and the OS starts faster in safe mode, that generally indicates damaged system files, OR damaged/corrupted software someplace . Safe mode only loads the basics - hence its usually faster . Its a diagnostic mode normally . Right said Fred :D -- time to look a little deeper- Click start, type in reli, select and open "View reliability history" - where theres a problem, look for a red circle with a white X click it -- Hopefully it will tell you below, what the error is . (hopefully its more than xxxx stopped working) or even if thats all it says, what if anything does it say . Also go back into the eventvwr - but open This site ( . com/home/what%E2%80%99s-taking-so-long-how-to-fight-slow-startup-times-in-windows-7/" target="_blank">itexpertvoice . com) -- happy reading :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1195571 | 2011-04-19 12:08:00 | thanks wainuitech, but: 1) I opened Reliability Monitor, and all it said for today was "explorer stopped working" (I think that was purely my fault, for overloading the system) 2) I've read the article before! Though I haven't engaged SysInternals Process Monitor yet. Houston, we've got a problem. |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1195572 | 2011-04-19 12:20:00 | Try Hard Drive Sentinel, can be useful for identifying drive problems: http://www.hdsentinel.com/ |
Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1195573 | 2011-04-19 12:46:00 | Some observations: Nothing unusual before boot screen. At boot screen (Windows is starting up), there is a delay of a few seconds (Windows logo glowing for several times). HDD LED is on. After the boot screen, there would be another brief period of black screen, and the cursor will appear (before the login sound is played). HDD LED is still full on. Then the login screen will appear. Anyway, I'm trying to illustrate the point that the hard drive is working hard, almost throughout the booting sequence. Interestingly enough, Ubuntu is a lot faster at booting up and shutting down, though I didn't particularly enjoy the fact that I'll have to fix quite a few things (e.g. the microphone is still not operational). Also, Event Monitor can't be bothered recording events. The last event recorded was almost one hour ago. Maybe I'm just too picky on this issue; maybe there is no solution; or maybe it's just my 5400rpm hard drive that is not giving the kick. So I'm still yet to find out why my Win 7 is starting up so slowly, but I don't know whether I want to keep looking for the solution... |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1195574 | 2011-04-19 22:39:00 | I tracked a problem like this down using msconfig. First I used diagnostic startup to see if the problem went away. It did. Then used selective startup. I started with all services that normally run but no startup items. That helped me track my problem down to a particular service. It is time consuming but you can get there if you have enough patience. | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 1195575 | 2011-04-20 00:16:00 | Your scan with Malware Bytes is good buut you should run Spybot as well. Once you have eliminated malware, lack of ram, hardware faults then you need to do a fresh install. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1195576 | 2011-04-20 02:01:00 | Try Solutu ( Reviewed by pcworld com. (http://www.pcworld.com/article/197095/soluto_utility_shrinks_pc_boot_times_fixes_problem" target="_blank">www.soluto.com/), a boot up speed diagnostic utility, that reports boot times and their applications, for start ups. Reviewed by pcworld com. (http: s.html) | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1195577 | 2011-04-20 02:07:00 | Hi all, My laptop, running Win7 Home Basic on i3 370m and 2G RAM, is taking more than 2 minutes to start up. Are you talking about the tome to load Win or the time for it to power on ?? Does it run OK after a good 5 minutes after Win has loaded ?? 2 minutes for Win7 to load isnt bad. Dont forget its also loading AV, & doing a quick AV scan as well. As well as preloading all the crap thats been installed. Safe mode will often be faster. Doesnt nesassarily mean there is an issue with your Laptop. as suggested, run msconfig, & start disabling startup items & non MS services. run services.msc, disable ALL google services, Is suggest, turn it on, then walk away & have a coffee. Come back in 5 minutes & all will be good. |
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