Slow Windows boot times (pre / post login).

nintenjo · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:59

Does anyone know of a fairly good program that can show me processes / programs that are causing my PC to boot slowly?

I seems to be getting very long post login delays.. (1-2mins after the start menus shows will any other apps boot.. even basic ones like chrome takes a good 30 seconds to just boot after launch).

Running Windows 7 64bit (6GB RAM, i7, Raid 0 HDD).

KIA · 18 Oct 2014 at 13:04

SSD.

Is safe mode any quicker?

http://superuser.com/questions/250267/how-to-diagnose-slow-booting-or-logon-in-windows-7

Puppetmaster · 18 Oct 2014 at 18:50

Checked the health of your hard drives?

Hard Disk Sentinel is good, though I am not sure how it will handle a RAID array.

http://www.harddisksentinel.com/hdsentinel_setup.zip

Also what do you have running on startup?

coolbeaNs92 · 20 Oct 2014 at 16:16

Start > Run > MSconfig

See what's ticked on the startup tab. Get rid of all things that are not needed such as Skype, Itunes all the general crap. Do not un-tick your OS, Anti-Virus, Network Adapters, Audio adapter and so on

If that doesn't work. Go for a defrag if it's a conventional drive (don't defrag an SSD) and maybe go for an error check to check bad sectors.

Installing CCleaner and getting rid of cache build-up and the like might be a good idea as well.

troops · 21 Oct 2014 at 01:19

I found disabling Windows backup in schedule tasks helped my boot times, unless you need it of course.