Windows 7 New Install - Slow Boots

[Kainz]

Heya all,

So recently upgraded from Win10 to Win7. The Anniversary update killed it for me and I couldn't bare sitting with 10 any longer. Pretty much the worst OS I've ever used from the guys at Redmond in my eyes.

I went back to Win7 and forgot how snappy everything is in day to day use. One thing that troubles me is that I believe Win7 is taking a great deal longer to boot than it should from an SSD.

Got the feeling the OS is hanging for about 10-15 seconds during boot before resuming the process. It takes about 1min to reach the logon screen. Is there any decent way I could troubleshoot what the issue is? It's been so long since I've delt with Winx issues that I am massively out of touch.

Cheers

 

[linktoinsanity]

Hmmm, it should not be slow to boot. Have you made sure all the drivers are up to date, such as the chipset drivers from Intel?

 

[Kainz]

Hmmm, it should not be slow to boot. Have you made sure all the drivers are up to date, such as the chipset drivers from Intel?

The machine is an i7 machine, built back in 2011, with an Asus mobo. I am using the very same drivers I have always used on Win7 installs - I store all the critical mobo drivers in one place to ease reinstalls. I doubt there would be any new ones given the mobo's age.

It definitely has the latest AMD driver bloat installed but I highly doubt it is that. I noticed it taking longer to boot up after the core Win7 install, that is before I shoved on GPU drivers.

I think I'll look at the SATA controller status in Device manager tonight, to see if they are set to the correct speeds.