improve windows7 start-up speed?

[stuartrozier]

Hello, i have read a few posts on the on the windows7 forum in regards to improving the boot speed.
But not really found any improments.
Is their any software or patch you can download that might improve it slightly?

I thought it was norton, but had norton on my pc when i brought it, and it used to load superfast, but over the last year, has dramaticaly slowed down.

Ive unchecked a number of programs in the "msconfig" startup utility, but no change really.

I only have norton, gmail notifier, and peer guardian in my taskbar.

Their might not be any suggestions, but i thought id ask an see...

thanks in advance for any help guys, and girls.

stuart

 

[Golden]

Hi Stuart,

There isn't any software that will help with boot speed. I recommed trying Soluto to gather information on your boot time. Run it but don't apply the recommended fixes - all you are interested in is what is contributing to your start up times.

Post back here once you have some info on that and we will be pleased to help you.

Regards,
Golden

 

[torre]

What is your startup speed (seconds) and please give your system specs ?

Also, have you checked the Event Viewer in the System Section of the Control Panel ?

 

[stuartrozier]

Hello, i installed soluto.

rebooted, and its showing me a list of programs that startup in the background...
86 in total, 3.05 mins to startup.

it says,
14 no-brainer apps that can be removed
23 apps that can be removed, if an advanced user
and then 49 apps, which soluto could not remove.

does this help? sorry if im not providing all the info, but this was all 'soluto' was showing me.

thanks
stuart

 

[stuartrozier]

this was a screen-capture of the system specs.

 

[whs]

It is your disk that is holding you up. Such a nice system deserves an SSD. With that your boot time would be in the area of 20 seconds. Anything else will give you only moderate results.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/149969-ssd-install-transfer-operating-system.html

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Any reasonable 7200 RPM HDD should be able to boot an ordinary Windows 7 installation in 90 seconds or so.

What HDD do you have?

Is Windows updated?

86 applications running at startup?

 

[whs]

86 is a little high. But usually Soluto shows around 60.

 

[Golden]

Stuart,

Can you post a screen capture of the Soluto output and post it here? It would also be helpful to see the list of 86 programs.

Regards,
Golden

 

[Faceofjoe421]

I use CCleaner, with CCEnhancer, Advanced System Care and TuneUp Utilities to maintain speed (I definitely noticed improvements).

Netbook boots in 24 seconds.

Can't wait to get the SSD and 2GB Ram for it.

 

[vrosa]

Any reasonable 7200 RPM HDD should be able to boot an ordinary Windows 7 installation in 90 seconds or so.

Surely. I have a RAID-0 array, W7 takes about 40 seconds to boot, and as far as I remember it didnt take much more before the RAID.

 

[stuartrozier]

Sure things, 'soluto' is a little difficult to capture an image of all the programs, its a flash-run program, so only shows you when your holding the mouse over the bar, so it wont let me highlight the programs AND let me use the snipping tool to take an image capture. But i'll paste an image of the "soluto" home screen.

Im not sure what a 'SSD' is, but my hard drive is a maxtor...i'll paste an image of that also, thanks for all your helps guys....
So do i "APPLY" the help, when it comes to soluto ?

 

[stuartrozier]

^^^^^^ in regards to my last post, the start-up time was less this morning when i turned on the PC, considerably less! almost by a a whole minute! strange!

thanks,
Stuart

 

[whs]

Im not sure what a 'SSD' is

It is a Solid State Disk. They have no moving parts. Access times are appr. 150 times faster than on HDDs and data transfer rates are significantly higher than on HDDs too.

To place the OS, you need a 60GB model which costs around $100. User files would still go on the HDD, but that is little impact on performance. Here is more: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/149969-ssd-install-transfer-operating-system.html

This is my boot time with an SSD - that is 16 seconds.

 

[stuartrozier]

Sure thing, 'soluto' is a little difficult to capture an image of all the programs, its a flash-run program, so only shows you when your holding the mouse over the bar, so it wont let me highlight the programs AND let me use the snipping tool to take an image capture. But i'll paste an image of the "soluto" home screen.
Im not sure what a 'SSD' is, but my hard drive is a maxtor...i'll paste an image of that also, thanks for all your helps guys....
So do i "APPLY" the help, when it comes to soluto ?

 

[stuartrozier]

^^^^^^ in regards to my last post, the start-up time was less this morning when i turned on the PC, considerably less! almost by a a whole minute! strange!
thanks,
Stuart

 

[stuartrozier]

sorry i posted that again, it wasnt showing this morning once i posted it.

so is all i need to do is buy a new gard drive then ? an ssd one?

or, will soluto help me with any performance,

thanks,
stuart

 

[stuartrozier]

this is the disk drive i have my pc at the moe...

 

[indianacarnie]

If you type in "system information", without the quotes, it will give you and us the spec.'s we need to help you more. (Or you could use Speccy or the one on this site)
Have you tried Ccleaner? It could help some I'm sure. The Soluto thing is very helpful too. If you are unsure of some of the things it suggests you turn off or delay,don't and either google them or ask here. Have you been to BlackVipers website? Very useful information on services you can turn off and/or set to manual instead of automatic. Yes an SSD will dramatically improve Boot times but if you cannot afford one (and the installation since you seem to be a fairly new user) there are plenty of other ways to speed up your Boot.

 

[stuartrozier]

Hello indiana,
i was checking out the crucial website, and it gives you a step by step how to giude when it comes to transfering your current HDD to a SSD, just using a sata to usb cable, and virtually cloning everything onto the SSD.
I might give this a go.
My only problem, is it states that you need to have a copy of your OS, but my OS came pre-instaled with my pc, would this be an issue do you think?
Also, my main HD has been partitioned in two drives, one for programs, software etc, and the 2nd partition is something called a factory image, would i need to clone this also do you think?
Thanks for your help,
i have posted a screen capture of the system information you asked for below...