Serious PC Issues - OS Resinstall, windows start up clogging

dave85uk

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hey chaps and ladies,

tl: dr boot up time (loading of start-up programs) is progressively worse each time I reinstall Windows 7 on the larger partition of my HDD. Other partition left alone, used for XP (not reinstalled)

Question

Suggestions? I can provide diagnose results on request (not sure how to run all of these)

Full story:

Over the last year or so every other month I back up all of my data and do a full refresh/reinstall of my PC OS and other software:

Recently however I've set up a partition on the same HDD: 450Gig for Windows 7 64 bit and 50g used for XP 32 bit.

I've come to reinstall W7 by formatting my larger drive partition (leave the other alone). I then update my security stuff and install a bunch of other programs (processes listed at the end).

The last 2/3 instal's I'm experiencing some serious issues:
-Slow loading of Windows 7 (a long period of a black screen and a cursor before the windows logo pops up)
-Slow loading of star-up programs (particularly my mouse driver)
-On my last boot had multiple issues:
-20% of CPU power was being used during idle for no reason. Clogging everything up
-Tried to remove software in the control panel - no response
-opened Firefox and tried to go on this website, loads of adobe flash errors popping (saying the plug in was not responding)
-Guild wars 2 stalling on load screen (non-responsive)

Processes list order of resource consumption:

Firefox
RzSynapse.exe (Mouse driver)
dwm.exe (Desktop Windows Manager)
explorer.exe
RAVCpl64.exe (Audio driver)
winlogon
waudt (windows update)
AvastUI.exe (Anti-virus - Avast)
csrss.exe


Thanks!!
 
Solution
Run Hdtune check your hard drive smart info for errors. Run a hd vendor test tools. Run memtest86 from boot disk. Run a virus scan from boot cd. Check your CPU cooler..make sure it not dust bound or lose. Check that the gpu fan is fine.
Run Hdtune check your hard drive smart info for errors. Run a hd vendor test tools. Run memtest86 from boot disk. Run a virus scan from boot cd. Check your CPU cooler..make sure it not dust bound or lose. Check that the gpu fan is fine.
 
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dave85uk

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Thank you I'll try those checks. I do regularly clear dust out of it, but using positive pressure fan setup and so likely not to have much dust, I'll have a look. In the mean time I'm wondering if having two partitions with an OS on each for the same HDD is non-ideal?