I made a thread about this a while ago but I thought it was magically resolved. It's a long story, I'll try to shorten it where possible.
One day my PC decideded to download lots of critical Windows updates. When I went to shut down my PC, these updates installed. The very next day, when I tried to turn my PC on, boot "failed". By that, I mean that the Windows 'loading' screen took about 5 more minutes than it should (my usual boot time is lightning fast) and after it finished doing its loading, it took me to a black screen with a mouse. It stayed that way for the better part of 15 minutes, so I shut it down and ran startup repair.
Apparently startup repair was unable to do anything and all my system repair was broken - all the points I tried failed. So I put in the Windows CD, booted it from there, and ran the system restore from that. Because I could. Of course, you guessed it - no repair points work (though I could try some of my January-February ones...) Anyways, I turned it on after that and... it said that system restore was complete and my files had been rolled back. Even though every single restore "failed".
Had to restart it later in the day. I restarted and I had the same absurdly slow boot. I decided to leave it for a bit as I took a shower and got some food. Came back, boot was complete and PC was ready and waiting.
After some more testing, I timed the loading screen at ~7 minutes, black screen at ~10 minutes and it took a further ~18 minutes from the moment the taskbar appeared to when I was actually able to run something from the desktop.
The taskbar appeared first, then a couple minutes later the desktop background and icons loaded in.
This is a new HDD, bought in December 2012. It shouldn't be running this slow.
When I try to run applications still, my start menu freezes. I started an MSE full virus scan immediately.
I'll post my dxdiag file here as well, just in case. http://pastebin.com/5aeHVk2L
Any and all help and solutions will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
One day my PC decideded to download lots of critical Windows updates. When I went to shut down my PC, these updates installed. The very next day, when I tried to turn my PC on, boot "failed". By that, I mean that the Windows 'loading' screen took about 5 more minutes than it should (my usual boot time is lightning fast) and after it finished doing its loading, it took me to a black screen with a mouse. It stayed that way for the better part of 15 minutes, so I shut it down and ran startup repair.
Apparently startup repair was unable to do anything and all my system repair was broken - all the points I tried failed. So I put in the Windows CD, booted it from there, and ran the system restore from that. Because I could. Of course, you guessed it - no repair points work (though I could try some of my January-February ones...) Anyways, I turned it on after that and... it said that system restore was complete and my files had been rolled back. Even though every single restore "failed".
Had to restart it later in the day. I restarted and I had the same absurdly slow boot. I decided to leave it for a bit as I took a shower and got some food. Came back, boot was complete and PC was ready and waiting.
After some more testing, I timed the loading screen at ~7 minutes, black screen at ~10 minutes and it took a further ~18 minutes from the moment the taskbar appeared to when I was actually able to run something from the desktop.
The taskbar appeared first, then a couple minutes later the desktop background and icons loaded in.
This is a new HDD, bought in December 2012. It shouldn't be running this slow.
When I try to run applications still, my start menu freezes. I started an MSE full virus scan immediately.
I'll post my dxdiag file here as well, just in case. http://pastebin.com/5aeHVk2L
Any and all help and solutions will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
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