Windows 7 slow boot time.

Darkst4r

Darkst4r

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I recently installed Windows 7 and am experiencing very slow boot times.

Just after the initial swirly windows lights I get a black screen with a white cursor for about 30 seconds before the welcome screen.

Is this normal ?

Is there any way of speeding this up or could it be my ageing system (P4 3.06 , 2GB RAM) ?

It's not the amount of startup programs as I only have 4 essential progs running.

Any fix would be great. Cheers
 
which version of 7? RC, final?

what hard drive do you have?

what software is installed so far?

boots a lot quicker for me than Vista did
 
What background setting do you have on the desktop? is it a solid colour, as solid colours with Aero enabled seam to slow down this login part of the boot up, there is even an entire thread on it on these very forums.
 
UKDTweak said:
What background setting do you have on the desktop? is it a solid colour, as solid colours with Aero enabled seam to slow down this login part of the boot up, there is even an entire thread on it on these very forums.
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Could you post me the link please ? I cant find it
 
Whats your system spec, CPU,VGA, version of Windows 7?
Have you tried turning off Aero feature?
Checked startup apps & services using msconfig?
 
Managed to get it down to 15 seconds. I had a custom aero slideshow theme which I changed to the regular default windows scheme which seemed to reduce the black screen time. The rest I put down to my rubbish CPU. Well over due for an upgrade.
 
UKDTweak said:
Whats your system spec, CPU,VGA, version of Windows 7?
Have you tried turning off Aero feature?
Checked startup apps & services using msconfig?
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P4 3.06ghz , Nvidia 7600GT , final version of 7 , 2gb ram. Only AVG antivirus and Logitech setpoint running on start up. Maybe I could disable un-needed services to decrease boot time ?
 
I would suggest you remove AVG and download Microsoft Security Essentials, Its free and uses less resources...
Disabling un wanted services may help a little ;)
Try turning Off Setpoint and reboot to rule it out?
 
UKDTweak said:
I would suggest you remove AVG and download Microsoft Security Essentials, Its free and uses less resources...
Disabling un wanted services may help a little ;)
Try turning Off Setpoint and reboot to rule it out?
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Thanks I'll give it a go. I don't suppose you have a link to a description of the services I could disable safely ? I had one for XP but lost it on the new install.
 
I wouldn't bother disabling services, it only really makes a difference on very old machines that can barely run XP..

ditching AVG is always a good idea though
 
bledd. said:
I wouldn't bother disabling services, it only really makes a difference on very old machines that can barely run XP..

ditching AVG is always a good idea though
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I usually use avast but it wont auto update on Win7 and when I manually update I still get the "out of date" warning. Tried Avira too but cant update atall , probably a server problem.
 
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