Welcome Screen hangs for 25 secs in Win 7 ultimate x64

Your motherboard is a dual channel motherboard. Which means you need to have two ram modules installed to use dual channel. One module installed is using single channel which is a lot slower.


GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-H61M-S1 (rev. 2.0)

1. 2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory
   * Due to Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than 4 GB.
2. Dual channel memory architecture
3. Support for DDR3 2200(OC)/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules
4. Support for non-ECC memory modules

From your specs.

Ghz
Motherboard Gigabyte H61M-S1
Memory 4 GB DDR3 1 SLOT
Graphics Card NVIDIA Geforce 210

are your hard drives identical and have you plugged it into a SATA 2 or 3 port? one theoretically is almost twice as fast as the other (in terms of maximum speeds, of which a mech drive wont reach.. but anywho)

as well as different sata ports on a mobo can be controlled by 2 different controllers.

whats mine? about 0.5 seconds.. infact my welcome screen is just a flash of blue light :)
one of the benifits of ssd's is sub 10 second boot times.

avistein take a little time and study up on motherboard Single channel, Dual channel, Triple channel and Quad channel.
It should be helpful for now and later on in your computer endeavors.

no there isnt a problem with anything, its just the limits of your computer.. its just a bit slow!

your hard drive could be a slow spinning platter with a low buffer cache speed, while your friends could be a quicker version.
even still 2 identical computers with identical components will not perform identically.
his cpu could run a few mhz faster, and his ram so too.

you could have more background apps or more personalisation to windows,which all add up in nano seconds, but as a whole add up in seconds.

as stated above, getting another stick of ram that is identical to yours and putting it in the correct lane will not only double the amount of ram you have but double the access speed to and from the ram. that will make a noticable difference.

so will buying a solid state hard drive which will be about 3.5x faster than your current one. but again it will all add up..

if you want speed you have to pay for it :)

it not an ISSUE. theres nothing wrong or broken! it just your impatients/rig speed lol.