Lag on "Welcome..." Screen

Hi all,

Newly registered here as im having some issues with a recent 7 upgrade!

Now i had been using a fresh copy of 7 RC on my Acer Netbook for a while, everything working great, and i really liked the speed/interface. So, i decided i should go ahead and upgrade my home PC to 7 RC as well.

Upgrade went fine, took a fair while but i thought that was to be expected due to the mass amount of programs i have installed lol Anyway, booted up, everything as far as i can see working good.

Now, after installing, i upgraded my nVidia drivers for my 8600GT to the latest from their site. This was a massive fail as it seemed to remove the 1440x900 resolution of my monitor! Anywho, cut a long story short, i had to revert back to 182.50 drivers to get things working correctly.

Right, well thats pretty much the background info covered i think, heres my problem;

Windows 7 loads up fine, i put in my password, to which it then sits on the "Welcome..." screen for a good minute before then giving me my desktop! While its just sitting on that screen, there is no disk activity and the PC seems to be doing naff all. As soon as it does perk up and think about doing something, the disk goes nuts and away we have my desktop!

Now, this never used to happen on Vista, it did occationally take a little longer than usual, but like 20 secs max.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Matty

Ok i'll give that a shot. I'm using the old 2.7 version of NOD32 for my Anti-Virus. I was thinking of upgrading to the latest one to keep it all new so i'll see how that affects it.

Still, i had the same version of NOD32 installed on Vista with no issues.

MattyGSI said:

Ok i'll give that a shot. I'm using the old 2.7 version of NOD32 for my Anti-Virus. I was thinking of upgrading to the latest one to keep it all new so i'll see how that affects it.

Still, i had the same version of NOD32 installed on Vista with no issues.

I am running the NOD x64 4.0.437 no problems with all the latest build of Windows 7.

I always uninstall ATI catalyst and NOD prior to my upgrade of build if dont clean install.

Ok i will try it. Got a feeling its something else though as i just remembered i have Win 7 on my Acer Netbook as i said earlier, and that is running the same v2.7 of NOD32. No issues with the welcome screen at all with that one

Nah that was a fresh install!

I wanted to try and avoid doing a fresh install on my home PC for a little while (well, until i can afford to buy a new faster primary hard disk), hence the upgrade!

I assumed it was to do with it loading up the graphics driver first as i had so much hassle with that. But now its all working OK it still takes ages on the Welcome screen

OK will that a go too... it shouldnt be a "performance" issue though, Pc Specs;

Core 2 Duo E6320 @ 2.33Ghz
4GB DDR667 RAM
Asus P5N-E SLI
GeForce 8600GT
2x WD Raptor 37GB in RAID0
WD Greenpower 1TB
Seagate 250GB