I am surprised at (lack of) speed

smarteyeball said:

MacGyvr said:

johnhoh said:

Your system has a problem and windows7 is not running normally for you at this point.

One problem with win7 is you can have driver issues yet device manager looks normal

Can you explain what the last statement means?

I assume drivers can be causing instability, yet show no warnings in device manager.

yes that's what I meant

thefeck said:

Up to now everyone has been marveling at how much quicker 7 is than Vista. I installed the Windows 7 Professional version clean (because it wouldn't let me upgrade Vista Home Premium 64) and then reinstalled most of my programs. What I immediately noticed is slower boot; slower program execution; periodic pauses in operation; and a general feeling I am swimming through molasses. Without overstating the case I do say that Windows 7 is anecdotaly slower than my Vista Home premium was. Enough so that I would take it back and reinstall Vista if my package wasn't opened and unreturnable. Anyone else have a comment.

I'm one who finds 7 faster than Vista. I wouldn't even DREAM of installing Vista on my netbook, but 7 works admirably well on it, as it does on my laptop and desktop PC's. From here, I have no clue why your 7 installation is slow, but surely you are aware that's not the norm.

Use the guide in my sig if you reinstall - otherwise post a screenshot of your installed programs and the startup tab from msconfig. Search for snip in the start menu. This could be a driver issue - update BIOS, chipset, Ethernet+Wireless, sound and gpu. Use driver sweeper for some of them - sound and gpu.

Thanks to each of you for your suggestions. I started checking drivers. First here is the HP Desktop I have:

HP9450f with 8 gigs of memory, 750 gigabyte hard drive 0 and 500 GB hard drive 1, Optiarc all purpose CD/DVD player/writer, Nvidia 9800 GT video card, 64 bit CPU Intel Core 2, Quad 2.5 GHz.

Can't figure out what drivers should be installed, but no errors show on the Device Manager. I do notice that a number of drivers like the HD and CD/DVD are dated 2006, which seems way too old for Windows 7, but they came off the Windows 7 disk, because I did a clean install of Windows 7.

My boot time is 1:58. Is that reasonable?

Thanks.

Maybe try updating your INF files. Try here:http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sear....aspx?lang=eng
After doing the update you may find system quicker. Hope this helps

I just felt like chipping in when i read this, 2 mins? i fired vista x64 sp2 because it was taking over a minute to boot, and 7 boots in about 40 seconds... imho, 2 mins is far too long...

Also, i do feel that apps take a little longer to load on 7 than vista, i am under the impression that although vista seemed like a ram hog, at least it seems prefetch on vista did a better job of filling that ram with useful data than 7 does.

Where does it hang how long? It's impossible to say what the problem is if we don't know how long each part needs.
For instance:
1) Time from button push till first Windows logo
2) Time from logo to login screen (do you type in the password or have automatical password-less login?)
3) Time from press enter @ login screen until you see the desktop

2mins is way too long. Also be sure to set a picture for your background, NOT solid color, there is a bug with that concerning boot time.