sorry if this is posted in the wrong section but im wondering if anyone could help me with my PC. for the last few weeks its been slow in booting up. when it goes to the black screen and says Windows Start up it stays like that for a good minute and a half before the 4 coloured badge starts to appear. you can hear the hard drive loading. apart from the booting up issue the hard drive seems to work fine. Windows and drivers are also up to date. Ive disabled all non esential programs from the startup and ive scanned the pc with malwarebytes. any idea what it could be? The hard drive im using is a Samsung 250gb ssd.
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yeh i do have one mechanical drive as well. it boots up fine in safe mode. also ive noticed if i havent shut down the pc properly and the window pops up on start up and i chose to start windows normally and it goes to the windows start up screen it loads perfectly fine with no delay.
What are you using as a background? there is a bug in 7 where certain tiled backgrounds will add 40+ seconds onto boot up times (though usually the delay is closer to when Windows has finished loading).
Otherwise sounds like a device driver is causing the slowdown.
Otherwise sounds like a device driver is causing the slowdown.
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To save time and a lot of hassle just reinstall Windows and start a fresh, something is either corrupt or you have a virus or program that's not playing ball installed.
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DO you connect to the internet over Ethernet cable or WiFi?
Looks like a virus to me. 
Try this link to help and select correct bit OS.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/
Also check event ID's with Microsoft, its late now am off to kip. Good luck!
Try this link to help and select correct bit OS.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/
Also check event ID's with Microsoft, its late now am off to kip. Good luck!
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The image/style you use as a desktop background - certain tiled images cause a bug.
Looks like a virus to me.
That's a bit drastic..
I'd take this opportunity to update to Windows 10. There's only 100 days left to get it for free.
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I'd rather buy windows 10 and have a physical copy on hand, what happens when it comes to having to reinstall? I suppose you could create a drive image but still....
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May I make a suggestion, turn your machine off and unplug the mechanical drive then start up.
If you are hearing the hard drive going during boot up then it may be having issues reading the HDD which may indicate a cable / HDD problem you should be cautious of.
Try booting without the mechanical drive.
If you are hearing the hard drive going during boot up then it may be having issues reading the HDD which may indicate a cable / HDD problem you should be cautious of.
Try booting without the mechanical drive.
Seconded
Also if you upgrade to W10 now you can reinstall it at a later date(it remembers your hardware that you activated it on i think)