How to preven the unpreventable slow down?

TheCenturion · 12 Mar 2011 at 22:36

How to prevent the unpreventable slow down?

Sorry for the stupid title

My system's been up and running since about October. I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. It's a core i7, dominator ram, intel value ssd...

And the inevitable has started. When you first put together a new build, no matter the specs, windows is nice and fast and smooth. It's only been 5 months, and windows is already slowing down. Used to shut down in about 7 seconds, now takes around 9-10 seconds (Oh the shame

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But, used to boot up within around 20 seconds, now takes around 30 seconds, sometimes more. Still ridiculously quick, but I don't want it to get slower, and slower, and sloooower and slooooooooooower.

Is it inevitable or preventable? I always delete files that aren't needed, I defrag my HD (not my ssd!) often. I occassionally run a chkdsk too.

Thanks guys

SeeknDestroy · 12 Mar 2011 at 23:17

run ccleaner to clean your registry and your temporary files might help to "prevent" it as well

ShakenNstirred · 12 Mar 2011 at 23:19

dont install anything is really the only way lol
clear out all the programs that auto start on boot

Macky · 12 Mar 2011 at 23:38

Check what stuff you've got on and don't need don't want. Run CCleaner. Run malwarebytes. Don't have ****loads of stuff starting up on startup.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

TheCenturion · 13 Mar 2011 at 20:38

I have ccleaner, used it when cleaning out NV drivers.

I don't have much stuff loading on startup either. I've loaded up msconfig and had a look, and not much starts on windows.

SiriusB · 13 Mar 2011 at 21:51

Use the Intel SSD Toolbox for "optimising" your SSD.

As above, remove software you know you do not use and prevent software from running in the background - unless you need it to/use it often.

Consider putting your PC to sleep rather than shutting down. Takes 2 seconds to sleep and 2 seconds to wake up.

TheCenturion · 14 Mar 2011 at 11:20

SiriusB said:
Use the Intel SSD Toolbox for "optimising" your SSD.

As above, remove software you know you do not use and prevent software from running in the background - unless you need it to/use it often.

Consider putting your PC to sleep rather than shutting down. Takes 2 seconds to sleep and 2 seconds to wake up.

I seem to have problems with sleep mode. When I put it to sleep, it doesn't actually boot up again, so I have to manually turn the computer off. Then on the boot screen it tells me that my overclock failed and default values have been loaded. Which is weird considering my OC is 100% stable for 5 hours of prime95, I doubt sleep stresses it that much

Cheers for the ssd idea

SiriusB · 14 Mar 2011 at 11:53

Prime95 is no longer the preferred OC testing program anymore. Many people say to use IntelBurnTest. Though the fickle OCers may have changed their minds again since then!

You can run

powercfg -energy -output C:\Users\you\Desktop\energy.htm

In an elevated command prompt. After 60 seconds it will generate the file in the location you give it and it will tell you what may be causing problems with sleep. Generally you can ignore the warnings. Errors relating to USB can be ignored too.

TheCenturion · 15 Mar 2011 at 13:07

Thanks buddy

You learn something new every day.

BahBah · 16 Mar 2011 at 00:44

Registry cleaners have been garbage since win2k. They were only helpful pre-win2k when the windows registry was relatively new and genuinely suffered from the problems current registry cleaners pretend to fix. They almost always cause more problems than they are worth ... and they're worth fk all. The windows registry is not an all encompassing evil as some companies pretend it is to justify the sales of their product. It's actually very solid and resilient to poorly written un/installers etc.