I am surprised at (lack of) speed

[thefeck]

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.

 

[logicearth]

What did you install? What did you change?

 

[Jacee]

How many unnecessary programs and services do you have running in the background that you don't need?
Check out what can be started manually instead of automatically. Also make sure you have enough ram and your drivers are up to date.

 

[HughShaw]

Probably one of your programs that is run at startup is not fully optimized for Win7. Because for me startup and shutdown is faster than Vista. Running programs is about the same for the ones that are compatible.

 

[johnhoh]

a general feeling I am swimming through molasses.

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

 

[patrickt]

When I first installed Windows7 retail on my computer the boot time was around 1:30. After a month or so it's down to 51 seconds. That's a faster boot than I ever got with Vista.

I installed W7 on my netbook and it runs as well as XP did.

 

[Kosta]

With all programs installed and also with everything updated and configured, I get amazingly short startup: from button turn on, through the whole bios startup and up to shown desktop 55sec. That is faster than both vista and xp. I think there is something wrong and you must work your way through deinstallation and reinstall to find the offending program...

 

[Lordbob75]

I agree. There is certainly something not right with it.

My first suggestion is to wipe the drive, and do a clean install. Install correct up to date drivers. If this problem occurs now, then it is a big problem. If not, start installing your apps. Do a restart after each and every one and make sure you remember the order you installed them in. Keep track of startup and shut down time as well if you want. Keep this up until the problem occurs, or all your apps are installed.

We need to narrow the cause down.

~Lordbob

 

[MacGyvr]

a general feeling I am swimming through molasses.

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?

 

[smarteyeball]

a general feeling I am swimming through molasses.

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.

 

[johnhoh]

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

 

[dave1812]

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.

 

[Frostmourne]

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.

 

[thefeck]

Thanks for the help

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.

 

[Lordbob75]

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.

That is indeed normal and reasonable. I believe mine is around that time as well.

Is the sluggishness gone?

~Lordbob

 

[joel406]

HPs are naturally sluggish and slow out of the box. He probably has a recovery partition that was left over from his vista install or bought an upgrade from HP and his PC is swimming with crap ware.

Get a retail disk and do a clean install and be sure to zap that restore partition.

NO HP CRAPWARE!

Then you should be fine.

 

[rhuds13]

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

 

[dave1812]

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.

2 minutes is quite slow. I have a 5+ year old HP Pavilon with 1 GB RAM and it shuts down in 12 seconds and starts from a cold boot in 48 seconds. My laptop and netbook has somewhat similar times.

for grins I just timed my Acer Netbook and it took 17 seconds to shut down, and 53 seconds to start up. It's a 1GB Aspire One (AOA-150)

 

[Carbon6]

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.

 

[Kosta]

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.