Windows 7 takes over 4 minutes to startup!

bledd · 16 Feb 2012 at 10:33

Your HDD benchmark looks weird, it shouldn't be down to 0.5 like that.

The odd low spike maybe, but it should be much higher.

Check your SATA cable isn't the problem

ChrisD. · 16 Feb 2012 at 11:01

bledd. said:
Your HDD benchmark looks weird, it shouldn't be down to 0.5 like that.

The odd low spike maybe, but it should be much higher.

Check your SATA cable isn't the problem

Interesting.

I cannot see the pic due to works firewall.

bledd · 16 Feb 2012 at 11:22

http://bleddyn.co.uk/temp/hdd.png

Was posting on my phone before, so missed it

Pho · 16 Feb 2012 at 11:49

Soluto looks very nice. Try this method using the event viewer too.

ChrisD. · 16 Feb 2012 at 12:05

bledd. said:
http://bleddyn.co.uk/temp/hdd.png

Was posting on my phone before, so missed it

Thanks. That does not look healthy, swap SATA cables and do another bench OP.

Thinking out loud, if the SATA cable had an issue, wouldn't chkdsk have had an issue?

bledd · 16 Feb 2012 at 12:08

should look more like this

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1966/hdtunehd204ui.png

It's normal to have one or two low blips if it's your system drive. Not like your graph though..

Guest2 · 16 Feb 2012 at 12:47

Pho said:
Soluto looks very nice. Try this method using the event viewer too.

I advise NOT to use Soluto. It make my startup time increase by about 25seconds

mothermachine · 16 Feb 2012 at 13:12

Soluto is a NO-NO. Some of the "no-brainer" things can actually be really important.

skyripper · 16 Feb 2012 at 14:06

Interesting views on Soluto. I've only ever used it to monitor the boot times and didnt use any of it's "tuning" options. I did my own removal/switching off/uninstalling of stuff on the laptop I used it with.

Tute · 23 May 2012 at 23:33

bledd. said:
Your HDD benchmark looks weird, it shouldn't be down to 0.5 like that.

The odd low spike maybe, but it should be much higher.

Check your SATA cable isn't the problem

Was just about to post this. That HDD benchmark is really really abnormal, it should be a constant drop from the centre of the platters to the outside, and not spike down to almost zero.

The access times are almost double what they should be as well. Something is really ****ed there - either the drive, the cable, or the controller.

KIA · 24 May 2012 at 10:41

Why are you bumping an old thread?

nutsnut · 24 May 2012 at 23:00

Have you tried the windows hot fix for 2Tb boot drives.

Arthur17 · 25 May 2012 at 07:29

KB2617858 is the hotfix you need. There are a few more listed here (and below) that are performance-related, but try that one first.

I wish MS would hurry up and release SP2!

KB2555428 - The Windows 7 startup process is slow when you create many restore points
KB2510636 - An update that improves the startup performance of Windows 7 and of Windows Server 2008 R2
KB2645611 - Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 stops responding if you try to log on a computer that has multiple monitors
KB2505454 - The startup process is delayed on a computer that has a large hard disk installed and is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

Arthur17 · 25 May 2012 at 07:35

Rroff said:
One thing that can slowdown Windows 7 startup (tho it won't add 4 minutes to it) is if you use a blank colored desktop background or a small image repeatedly tiled - can add upto about 90 seconds to startup time due to some random bug.

IIRC, this was fixed with SP1 as it included KB977944.

Antar Bolaeisk · 25 May 2012 at 08:46

To see if there are any hardware issues (bad drivers etc.) causing the slow down, open up Event Viewer and go to:

Applications and Services Logs->Microsoft->Windows->Diagnostics - Performance -> Operational.

Anything listed there with an event ID between 100-199 are related to startup (200-299 is shutdown)

Event 100 is the actual boot time.