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I'm too afraid to reset it "physically" since I'll probably mess something up, somehow. This is probably why someone made a bootable program for it :P Those settings sound easy enough, I was afraid I'd have to re-enter complicated stuff. First I'll look at what my boot order is and see if it is indeed loading other things before the hard drive.
I think I made a little connection here. Maybe resetting the CMOS doesn't do anything to fix a long boot time, except making you need to redo your boot order, so it loads the hard drive first again. I'm sure it's a possibility.
I did a boot with Soluto and it said it took 5:23 to boot my system. I did the math for all the listed programs and unfortunately it's right. Something just seems a bit fishy. Why would it take over 4 minutes to boot up all the "necessary" Windows stuff? The longest application to boot is the operating system itself with 36 seconds. It is 4 minutes due to the sheer number of "Windows" stuff that piles on at boot. My security and drivers only take a measly 43 seconds.
Edit: My hard drive does boot first so we can rule that out.
Last edited by kisazeky; 30 Sep 2010 at 18:36.