windows 7 taking too much on start up

Shadow777

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Jan 13, 2014
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Hello everyone, recently i have noticed that turning my pc is taking more than 15 min too load on startup and it still doesnt load. I know its not freezed because i can see the flag waving. The mobo splash screens loads normally but then theres a black screen that lasts like 30 sec until going to startup. Last thing i did and think that could cause this was changing hard drive sleep time from 20min to never in power options.
 
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Greetings,

Can You start safe mode with networking? Please do so, and check Your HDD health with Crystal Disk Info, and set Power Settings to defaults and to "ballanced".

snowctrl

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Changing hard drive sleep time to never should not cause the problems you are having - sounds like your HD is full or dying... do as suggested above

When you get logged in successfully, I would recommend backing up all critical data asap

... and when you have it working again, run full anti-virus and antimalware scans with the likes of BitDefender and Malwarebytes