SSD Windows 7 Boot time is slow after installation of drivers and couple programs.

cornflaks795

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Jan 26, 2014
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Hello,

So I started a fresh install of Windows 7 after a few months after I noticed some very slow boot times and other stupid stuff that usually is fixed with an clean install. I've done this many times before, but only once on my SSD.

After this install, everything was booting up very fast and was looking good. After I installed my NVIDIA drivers and rebooted, I saw that my boot time was very fast, like it should be. I proceeded to install some other drivers (LAN, and audio) and some programs (raidcall, google chrome, steam) and now all of a sudden I'm getting this much longer boot time when I reboot.

I have installed all the drivers from asus's website (i'm just assuming that these are the updated drivers for my hardware) and still no luck with a "fast" boot.

Is there anyway I can increase my boot time?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
 
Can you see where it is spending its time, at least enough to rule out that it's the POST / BIOS start rather than the Windows boot?

Personally, I would start removing some of those things and see if the removal of one of them fixes the problem.

(Actually, I make periodic checkpoints during a build, so I would have fallen back to the last checkpoint.)
 

Rowan Virgo

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Jun 12, 2015
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I would recommend stopping processes and programmes running on startup, remove things from your startup folder and uncheck things in the startup tab of System Configuration. You can access the startup folder from the start menu and System Configuration by typing msconfig onto the search.