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Hi
I have a pretty standard setup. Relatively new replacement HDD (not SSD) Toshiba 500GB. Not anywhere remotely close to using the full resources or capacities of the unit. I did the reboot test and achieved 114 seconds. The only operation I did not shut down for the test was the free Avast antivirus. Can I further test for what seems to be making startup much slower than it used to be?
Thanks, Bill
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BILL-PC
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model XPS 8500
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A06, 25/05/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale Australia
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Bill-PC\Bill
Time Zone AUS Eastern Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 12.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 9.93 GB
Total Virtual Memory 23.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 21.6 GB
Page File Space 12.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Thought I'd try this since my system has been stable for a long time, and remembered this thread.
Last edited by GeneO; 01 Nov 2014 at 10:36.
The big difference in reboot time was due to going from a normal boot partition to an EFI boot partition with Comparability Support Module disabled in BIOS. This required upgraded graphics card firmware that supported EFI boot. The handoff from BIOS/EFI to windows is way quicker with EFI.
Hi Everyone,
Just joined this forum and posted a question about slow boot times. I saw this thread and thought I would post my poor time. If anyone has any ideas, please feel free to comment on my question.
46 seconds seemed to be stuck on the bios screen for an extra 10-15 or so seconds never did that before :/
I believe msconfig is on 30 seconds possibly that is effecting reboot more than startup items which there is only 2 Microsoft ones ?
turns out if you have a network drive mapped to a computer that's off, when you log on it waits about 90 seconds
Last edited by HellFire; 26 Dec 2014 at 18:02.
I think I've tried the majority of tweaks to improve the reboot time, but can't seem to get any more out of it than this. Any tips would bee more than welcome.