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Windows 7 is extremely slow to boot

Anonymous
2009-10-23T14:25:48+00:00

Booting so slow windows 7

*original title - Why does Windows 7 take so long to boot? 20 minutes. *

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-10-24T15:51:41+00:00

    Hi Superzach,

    Thank you for Visiting Microsoft windows7 answers Forum.

    Windows 7 Minimum Hardware Requirements:

    1. 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
    2. 1 GB RAM for 32-bit Windows 7 OR 2 GB RAMfor 64-bit Windows 7
    3. 16 GB available disk space 32-bit Windows 7 OR 20 GB for 64-bit Windows 7
    4. Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme)
    5. DVD-R/W Drive
    6. Internet or phone access to activate Windows 7.

    Hearer is the few steps where we can follow in order to improve

    Method 1 :

    Also you can try to boot the computer in safe mode and check if you face similar issue

    Steps to boot to safe mode:

    1.       Restart the computer.

    2.       Immediately after the screen goes blank for the first time, or after the BIOS post ends.

    3.       Start taping the F8 key repeatedly. The Windows Advanced Options menu appears.

    (If the menu does not appear, restart the computer and try again. If the Keyboard has a F-Lock key, it may be necessary to press it first - QUICKLY before pressing the F8 Key. This will have to be done quickly before tapping the F8 key repeatedly.)

    4.       Select safe mode and press enter

    5.       Try booting to the desktop

    Start your computer in safe mode

    http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/323ef48f-7b93-4079-a48a-5c58eec904a11033.mspx

     Method II :

    I would suggest you to boot the computer in clean boot i.e. disable non Microsoft services.

    The purpose of disabling non Microsoft services is to check if any of these services is

    Causing the issue. Follow the steps below to boot the computer in clean boot:

    Perform clean boot and check if you have the issue.

    1.       Click Start, type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

    If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.

    2.       On the General tab, click Selective Startup.

    3.       Under Selective Startup, click to clear the Load Startup Items check box.

    4.       Click the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.

    5.       Click OK.

    6.       When you are prompted, click Restart.

    7.       After the computer starts, check whether the problem is resolved.

    Reset the computer to start as usual

    After you have finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

    1.       Click Start, type msconfig.exe in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

    If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.

    2.       On the General tab, click the Normal Startup option, and then click OK.

    3.       When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Restart.

     If the issue is resolved check which third party is causing the problem, referring the link given below?

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

    To help troubleshoot error messages and other issues, you can start Windows 7 by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This kind of startup is known as a "clean boot." A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

     Thanks and Regards,

     Vijay   

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-01-08T00:07:04+00:00

    I have almost the same problem here...

    Hello! I'm having problems during the startup of my windows 7 laptop. It always takes about 20 minutes to load after logging on to my account. After 20 minutes (more or less), everything seems back to normal again.

    I've done the system restore already but after restarting, it's still the same. I've also tried disabling all the non-Microsoft services in msconfig and when I restarted, it's still the same. But I noticed that there is one service that I cannot disable, it's the "Common Client Job Manager Service" from Symantec Corporation that even after disabing it will still run after applying the new settings.

    What do you think? Please help me. It really wastes my time just waiting for it to load. Thanks in advance.

    This are the specifications of my laptop:

    Toshiba Sattelite T235

    Intel Pentium Processor U4500 @ 1.20GHz

    4.0 GB RAM

    64-bit Windows 7 OS

    Microsoft Security Essentials Antivirus

    Airich 106

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-28T18:46:53+00:00

    Hi Vijay

     I have done exactly as per you steps but still taking 15 - 20 minutes to boot up?  Enough to drive you mad!  What do I do now?

     

    Does anyone ever get a fix to their problems? I have gone through just about every possible restore/safe mode except for reformat and I have a computer that takes forever to log in (still not to the desktop after 20 minutes). Managed to get to the desktop in safe mode but it was extremely slow reacting to anything. I would like to know how this particular problem was fixed...

    Thanks!

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-10-12T05:33:53+00:00

    because its a pile of ****... better than Windows Vista which was a disaster. They should have stuck with XP. It amazes me that the simplist issues were not addressed and continue to plague the operating system. How can moving from one operating system to the next be so complicated for a company like Microsoft? the Apple folks seem to have had it figured out for a very long time. You turn on your computer, it boots fast, immediately connects to wireless and has not issues, it just works. Microsoft has been one disaster after another following XP. Also, can anyone explain why they changed the menu system so dramitically in Office? WTF! poorly executed and horribly inefficient. Bought a program called classic menu to bring it back to normal. THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER PLAYER IN THE OS WORLD!

    How about you post something if you are going to help rather than going on about how bad Microsoft is. We want to resolve an issue we are having not hear your opinion. And there are other operating systems out their, ever heard of Linux?

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-05-16T17:01:49+00:00

    Every single time an Internet search has brought me to "Microsoft answers" where someone else has posted my same problem this is the answer I see.

    Passing questions back and forth between forums is ridiculous.  If you don't know the answer to the question then please just be quiet.

    It would be much better if this thread was allowed to be continued.  Hopefully more good answers would be generated.  Nothing but good can be accomplished by allowing the answers to these questions to be posted in  more than one place.

    If the moderators of this forum are connected with Microsoft, shame on Microsoft.

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