Windows 7 unresponsive @ desktop

Black Dog · 11 Oct 2011 at 13:18

Hi,

I have recent install of windows 7 with no antivirus running ect. It boots up nice and quick but after being on the desktop for about 10 seconds everything grinds to a halt. Anything I do takes about 20 - 30 seconds, this includes the start buttion, task manager ect and even then it's painfully slow.
Any desktop icons like games ect do not start. I do not have any disk thrashing at all.

I cannot do anything and have to try to shutdown but it just hanges on the shutdown screen and doesn't do anything. I am then forced to hard reset and when it boots back up everything is fine with no problems at all.

It seems to be on the initial boot only. I have no programs installed at all except retail games.

I7 2600K
8GIG DDR3
Geforce 580
WIN 7 64 Home

Anyone have any ideas??

ChrisD. · 11 Oct 2011 at 13:23

Sounds like a driver issue to me.

Anything in the event log?

Black Dog · 11 Oct 2011 at 14:14

I'm not at home at the mo, I will check later.

Would it not happen on every boot if it was a driver issue??

ChrisD. · 11 Oct 2011 at 19:18

You'd assume so, event log is your best bet I'd imagine, then go from there.

You can also use perfmon to find out what is raping your system prior to reboot.