Very long Windows 7 Boot Time

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Crazy_Ivan55

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Hello, the boot times for my computer are nothing short of rediculous. Before I installed windows 7 my boot time was easily half, and that was windows XP.

You can see my specs in the sig along with a 1 TB 5600rpm hard drive. Yea I know that is slow but that's not the reason since I had the same hard drive before. I do not know why however I do have a proposition; when I installed my windows 7 I did not have to do a clean install and it put all my old stuff into a file called "windows.old" I do not know if this is the reason so I need evidence since I regularly defrag and check for viruses and malware.

Thank you.

EDIT: I recorded the time it took from PC on to desktop

It took 13 seconds from PC on to Starting windows black screen
It took 31 seconds from PC on to blue welcome screen
It 1 minute and 18 seconds from power on to Desktop

So a 1 minute 18 second boot time.
 
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Tabris DarkPeace
I'd concentrate more on the 34 seconds from Welcome screen to Desktop.
- Defragment your HDD
- Restart
- Do it again
- Consider getting an SSD and/or Diskeeper Corp. software if your HDD has heaps of old files on it.

Then consider disabling Superfetch as your HDD is prefetching a heap of stuff it probably doesn't need.
- Do the defrags first, as they can benefit from the superfetch data.
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You boot time might not be all that bad, it depends on your configuration, memory and CPU. If your boot time has recently gotten worse, I'd try looking at your registry for errors. There are several good registry cleaner programs out on the market. Some you don't even have to pay for. Your Hard disk is (only) a 5600 rpm disk. A 7200 rpm hard drive or a SSD would be slightly and much faster, respectively.

If the computer in your tag is the one that is slow, I'd definitely look at the registry.
 
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I'd concentrate more on the 34 seconds from Welcome screen to Desktop.
- Defragment your HDD
- Restart
- Do it again
- Consider getting an SSD and/or Diskeeper Corp. software if your HDD has heaps of old files on it.

Then consider disabling Superfetch as your HDD is prefetching a heap of stuff it probably doesn't need.
- Do the defrags first, as they can benefit from the superfetch data.
 
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Crazy_Ivan55

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Thank you but I did defragmenting and Optimising as well as registry cleaning. Like I said, people have tested that windows 7 boots faster but it boots more than twice as long as it used to. I just never was able to fix it.
 
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Crazy_Ivan55

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The computer in my tag is the one giving me problems, I tried doing registry cleanup but it did not change. I know it is a slow startup time because my laptop which was made in 2005 and has a Intel Celeron M 1.6Ghz, Intel GMA 945 graphics, 2GB RAM and a 70GB 5600 RPM drive took just under 30 Seconds from Power on to log in and it uses Windows XP Home Premium.
 
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