Slow boot of nearly 1 min

[Sreekiran]

Recently I installed the latest CPU with following hardware
1. Gigabyte B85MD3H
2. Intel core i3 4150 processor
3. G skill 8 GB RAM
And windows 7 pro sp1 64 bit

When start up the welcome screen is taking a lot time of nearly 1 minute to open home screen. What would be reason? Is any way to get fast boot under 10 seconds.

 

[WVMountie07]

What are your hard drive specs? If it's an older HD it could have something to do with the read speed. Upgrading to a SSD would definitely reduce load times on the OS or any other program you wish to install on it.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You don't have particularly blazing fast hardware, and on top of that you haven't listed your hard drive specs, but if you're running a 5900 RPM hard drive, then 1 minute is actually pretty good!

10 seconds is not going to be possible. Even running an SSD it takes mine about 20.

 

[MisterJef]

Hi,

What type of hard drive do you have currently installed in your computer ?

To have a fast boot time you must install you're operating system on a Solid State Drive (SSD).

I have one in my system and I am ready to game within 15 seconds.

I am pretty sure that will resolve your problem.

 

[chriscornell]

put "msconfig" in the run menu (without quotations) and press enter --> go to the "startup" tab and check how many programs start up with Windows. Disable programs that you can easily start manually; Steam, Spotify, Skype etc.

As pointed out by WVMountie07, your harddrive is the biggest single component to affect load times/boot times.