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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 03:50:04 pm

Title: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 03:50:04 pm: I don't get it. I just don't get it. I have a computer with an i5-2500k processor and a GTX460 hawk, yet my bootup time for windows is really dumb. I can't figure out why its this slow. mIRC joining is slow, msn loggin is slow, chrome is slow loading flash at first (sometimes even crashing), steam was slow loading at first, etc. I don't understand why its like this, unless its the amount of start-up programs i have (about 8 ). Even steam won't start up on boot anymore and msn won't automatically sign in on startup like it should and it used to but its not now. ???
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Juju on January 23, 2012, 03:51:48 pm: Did you checked your viruses?
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 03:52:27 pm: I have avast (one of the start-up programs) that does real-time scanning (internet security edition)

edit: its slow sometimes showing the update pop-up and the "Ding" that goes along with it
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 23, 2012, 03:55:09 pm: Does it just take like 2 minutes for those programs to startup or do they just not startup at all even after 30 minutes? From experience, slow boot/startup is due to either your computer being overcrowded with startup processes (for example, HP Printer update, Adobe update, Avast update, iTunes updates, etc) or it has undetectable viruses and stuff.

My old computer took 30 seconds to startup on XP when I got it and after its reformat, but a few months ago it took about 20 minutes.
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Nick on January 23, 2012, 03:55:33 pm: well, if i were you i would let some virusscanner scan your whole computer first, just to be sure, you can use avg free edition (http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage), it works fine..
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: imo_inx on January 23, 2012, 03:56:16 pm: One Word fro fix: CCleaner
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 03:56:38 pm: 2 minutes for the programs to start up minus 2 programs (steam and one called "chatango message catcher" (its a light program)).

edit: I have used ccleaner and defraged my HDD (only once tho)
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 23, 2012, 03:59:11 pm: CCleaner doesn't do the job that much. I tried it before and it improved my startup time, but only by about 10%.
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 04:03:29 pm: I was thinking about buying an SSD to get rid of this problem, do you think it would b worth it?
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 23, 2012, 04:05:00 pm: Not sure. If you have viruses or something, I doubt your computer will get any faster.
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 04:07:57 pm: yeah. The downside thing to all this tho is that 6 out of 8 of these programs are tools for my hardware (ex: Realtek HD manager, NVIDIA settings, acer edisplay management, etc)
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Scipi on January 23, 2012, 04:10:36 pm: Check Task Manager for anything that seems to be eating up resources. Could help. :)

Also, what version of Windows?
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Snake X on January 23, 2012, 04:40:12 pm: Quote from: HOMER-16 on January 23, 2012, 04:10:36 pm
Also, what version of Windows?

Windows 7.
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: imo_inx on January 23, 2012, 05:27:54 pm: Downgrade to Windows 7 N! (sarcasm, it sucks.)
Title: Re: retartedly slow bootup time
Post by: Scipi on January 23, 2012, 05:59:19 pm: Ok, are you running on an HP computer with that stupid Dock? If so it sucks up resources, disable it.