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Hey everyone

I've had a problem for a long time but never got around to addressing it. Whenever I boot my pc for the first time of the day, it loads into desktop really slowly, but if I do a restart it will boot at the normal speed.

Now I assumed that it was spyware/malware whatever, so I completely formatted the system and reinstalled windows and it still happens, could this be a hardware problem?

I'll be testing to see if its only when I boot for the first time of the day, or if the problem only happens after a complete shutdown then boot.

Thanks.



specs are below:

mobo:MB GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3LR 775 RTL
HD: HD 1T|WD 7K 32M SATA2 WD1001FALS
Memory: MEM 2Gx3|CORS TR3X6G1333C9 R
video card: VGA SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL HD4870 1G R
CPU: CPU INTEL|C2Q Q9550 2.83 775 12M R
 
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Tom Tancredi
1) have you defragged the drive (I suggest defraggler, works real good when you move GBs of data around)
2) click orb type CMD, then in the DOS Prompt type chkdsk /f which will require a reboot. Once done tell us what the results are
3) What is your Antivirus? How many do you have installed
4) What is your antimalware ? I suggest running Malwarebytes for a full scan
5) Check the PSU, what is it? How many Watts? Calculate max load for your hardware and is it less then the Watts max of your PSU?
6) What sort of temps are you running in the computer, on the HDD, CPU and GPU? I would try Speccy, it is real good at providing a synopsis of your hardware with temp readers.
6) all else fails after all this I would download DBAN for a real...
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Yes it is a desktop but I am thinking it is because your accidentally Hibernating then simply shutting down. Hibernating saves the configuration of everything you see on the screen as a file on the HDD, then when you start up again takes all that time to 'load' the file and set everything to look exactly as it did (programs open, where they are on the screen, etc.).

Click the battery / power button in the tray in the right corner. Select more power options. Click Additional Plans and select HIGH PERFORMANCE. Click on the left side Choose what the power buttons do, then change as you want it to be. Click OK. Then click on the left Change when the computer sleeps, and again change it to what you want it to be. That should resolve it if you click on the orb then click SHUT DOWN, NEVER hit the power button to SHUT DOWN Windows.
 
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Those specs I listed for my computer are completely wrong, these are the right ones:

mobo: MB MSI 785GT-E63 R
cpu: CPU AMD|PH II X2 555 3.2G AM3 C3 R
gfx: VGA HIS|H577FK1GD HD5770 RT
OS: win7 64 bit

I did as you said with the power settings, and I never hit the power button to shut down my comp. I always hit the start button, then the shut down button. Ill be monitoring these new settings to see if it fixes it over the next few days. I appreciate your help!
 
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Sorry for the late response but I only have one hard drive that is doing this and this is it:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB Hard drive

WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
 
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1) have you defragged the drive (I suggest defraggler, works real good when you move GBs of data around)
2) click orb type CMD, then in the DOS Prompt type chkdsk /f which will require a reboot. Once done tell us what the results are
3) What is your Antivirus? How many do you have installed
4) What is your antimalware ? I suggest running Malwarebytes for a full scan
5) Check the PSU, what is it? How many Watts? Calculate max load for your hardware and is it less then the Watts max of your PSU?
6) What sort of temps are you running in the computer, on the HDD, CPU and GPU? I would try Speccy, it is real good at providing a synopsis of your hardware with temp readers.
6) all else fails after all this I would download DBAN for a real wipe of the drive and try the Windows Install again from scratch (you can backup your current stuff using Windows Easy Transfer) and once we know the system runs fine after a cold boot, etc. then I would use Windows Easy Transfer to restore your desktop.
 
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