Will be doing a clean install :)
Should arrive tomorrow so
User Profile - Change Default Location
OPTION TWO
For All New User Accounts Created
Very short, it's the first thing I'll do :)
Hi Olie,
Once you have your SSD installed, and the PC the way you want it, I recommend vsiiting this site to look at some methods you can use to get your SSD fine-tuned:
Guide * Windows 7 Ultimate Tweaks & Utilities *
Regards,
Golden
Nice link, ty
Combines bits of this and bits of that from everywhere.
-inserts comment about England winning The Ashes here-
Well I am just installing updates and installing programs. Tbh, the drive is no quicker then my HDD on start up.
Well so far at least... need to get hdtune
I clicked restart and this is how the timer went:
12 seconds - it had finished logging out when I clicked restart
19 seconds - I could see the Gigabyte logo, (POST etc)
30 seconds - Windows logo
1:30 - Desktop
A few seconds later msn and skype had loaded
I uncheck everything in msconfig>Startup except AV (MS Security Essentials or Avast are best) and gadgets. The rest are freeloaders on your startup time, RAM/CPU and can spy on you. Startup Programs - Change
That is too long for Startup in any case so check the logs and normal methods for troubleshooting Win7: Computer lags every couple seconds
If no traction there then here is the way the pro's trace startup slowness/hangs: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/1402...resume-issues/
Ok well I unticked everything. There isn't MSE though only a Microsoft Security Client?
Also nothing in my AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.
I haven't yet applied the MSConfig
What are the times with everything except MS security unchecked?
Try unplugging all other HD's to test it.
Then check your logs, esp Performance which logs hangs and delays.
Unchecked - same time.. about a minute from logo to desktop.
Will unplug my HDD.... god I swear nothing just works for me -.-
Edit: with the other hdd unplugged it took just as long. Though my user profiles are on that HDD so.. It said preparing your desktop, and it was past a minute so I just restarted.
Grrrrr
Well unplugging the hdd was terrible idea because now when I get to the desktop it says
Windows/system32..........systemprofile/desktop refers to a location that is unaviable bla. Because my user profiles are set to the hdd I pulled out
Now I'm stuck.
I guess I have to reinstall windows.. I hate this blimmin computer. And next time I'm not putting the user profiles on the other hdd
Oh my... I boot from disk but it doesn't even work so it just boots into windows
Edit: I can boot from disk if I change 'onboard sata controller' from AHCI to IDE which is default. Though everyone says to have it on AHCI
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Well I got upto the partition bit with IDE on.
I formatted it and turned pc off.
Now when trying to boot from disk I get bootmgr is missing...
This is another moment of "why did i buy this"
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