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smithandwestern   08-18-2009 at 07:04:16 AM

Ive just upgraded from Vista Home premium to Windows 7 RTM. Over the past week my boot time has gone from around 50 seconds to 1:40. Ive cut out all the unwanted programs at boot using msconfig but that still doesnt make much difference. Any ideas?
Hardware:
Core i7 920 2.66ghz
Gigabyte X58-ud4p
3x 2gb 1333mhz geil ram
1tb 7200rpm WD harddrive
Zotac GTX260(216core)
Windows 7 Professional RTM

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Bronze Win 7 badge Scotteq   08-18-2009 at 03:48:51 PM

Slow startup is usually caused by an incompatible device/driver.

The first thing I would recommend is disconnecting everything that's not essential, and see does that solve the issue. If it does, then add devices back over time to see if/when the problem returns. For example: System is fine.. shut down... add the USB pastry~toaster... start up... OMG!! system is slow... Now you know what device is the cause.


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area51reopened   08-19-2009 at 02:10:05 PM

I agree probably a bad driver or a missing one that windows is trying to find.Ihad a bad chipset driver on my optiplex 960 and once i fixed it no problems at all!

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win7man   08-19-2009 at 11:10:17 PM

if its drivers, then make sure you update them all, that and go into windows update and install anything available there, and if it is USB devices, what u can do, is while ur in windows, unplug all usb devices and then replug them, it should get the newer drivers off windows update for it

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