- Aug 1, 2014
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Here's my full setup:
Intel i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz
8GB DDR3-1600MHz
Seagate 600 Pro 480GB SSD (boot drive) + Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD
MSI Z77A-G41 LGA1155 board
AMD Radeon HD6670 1GB GDDR5
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I have no idea what changed, or what the problem could possibly be, but out of nowhere my boot time went from about 25 seconds to often over 6 minutes. In the OS, everything loads blazing fast, and it doesn't drag, so the SSD itself isn't the problem. Originally, Superfetch was disabled so I tried enabling it and that didn't help. I tried booting with the paging file both enabled and disabled, and that made no difference. I installed all available Windows updates, both optional and required. That didn't help either.
It may be interesting to note that at about the same time as this problem arose, I noticed that the service for my keyboard media buttons had been changed from Automatic start to Manual. Makes me wonder if something changed other important services to Manual, thus killing my boot time. There isn't any suspicious activity, the computer runs flawlessly when I finally get into the OS. Just boot time and shutdown time are insane.
I checked the Event Viewer, and it told me that SMSSInit took 188448ms alone. The degradation time shows as 184464, which tells me 3 minutes of my 6 minute boot time is in the SMSSInit phase. Event ID100 shows that the full boot time was 388144ms, and the field "IsDegradation" shows as "false."
At this point I'm considering a fresh install of Windows, but I want to make sure I haven't left out anything that could potentially fix my problem. Thanks in advance for any help!
Edit: It's also not that I have a lot of things on startup. I only have Java update, Intel USB3 controller, Catalyst Control Center, and rundll.
Intel i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz
8GB DDR3-1600MHz
Seagate 600 Pro 480GB SSD (boot drive) + Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD
MSI Z77A-G41 LGA1155 board
AMD Radeon HD6670 1GB GDDR5
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I have no idea what changed, or what the problem could possibly be, but out of nowhere my boot time went from about 25 seconds to often over 6 minutes. In the OS, everything loads blazing fast, and it doesn't drag, so the SSD itself isn't the problem. Originally, Superfetch was disabled so I tried enabling it and that didn't help. I tried booting with the paging file both enabled and disabled, and that made no difference. I installed all available Windows updates, both optional and required. That didn't help either.
It may be interesting to note that at about the same time as this problem arose, I noticed that the service for my keyboard media buttons had been changed from Automatic start to Manual. Makes me wonder if something changed other important services to Manual, thus killing my boot time. There isn't any suspicious activity, the computer runs flawlessly when I finally get into the OS. Just boot time and shutdown time are insane.
I checked the Event Viewer, and it told me that SMSSInit took 188448ms alone. The degradation time shows as 184464, which tells me 3 minutes of my 6 minute boot time is in the SMSSInit phase. Event ID100 shows that the full boot time was 388144ms, and the field "IsDegradation" shows as "false."
At this point I'm considering a fresh install of Windows, but I want to make sure I haven't left out anything that could potentially fix my problem. Thanks in advance for any help!
Edit: It's also not that I have a lot of things on startup. I only have Java update, Intel USB3 controller, Catalyst Control Center, and rundll.
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