Slow to Start On 7 Home Premium

Zaney2522

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Alright, so, I found a windows 7 ultimate 32x OS disk and put it into my empty hard drive. The PC ran faster than it has every ran before, with startup speeds at almost less than 10 seconds. It was great. There was only one problem, I didnt have a product key for it. I went on amazon.com and bought a version of windows 7 home premium with the key, and expected it to perform just as well as the ultimate version. I booted it up, only to find that it was still running acceptably fast, but not nearly as fast as it was running. Sometimes it takes well over 30 seconds (almost 40) to boot up now. It's not a HUGE deal, but I would love to get those 10 second boot speeds back. :( Can anybody help?
 
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Look at your motherboard bios defaults.
Shut off any adapters you are not using.
Bypass the initial memory check.
Put the windows boot device first in the priority list.

Run msconfig and look at the startup task list.
Disable anything that should not be there.

Lastly do not boot at all.
Use sleep to ram(not hibernate) The power state is about the same as shutting completely off, and you should sleep/wake is a few seconds.

snurp85

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knowing nothing else, one explanation might be that the ultimate version you initially installed is pre-service pack, whereas a newer cd of the OS would likely already have the service pack installed on it. Updating the OS with all of the security updates and whatnot greatly increases the boot time.
 
Look at your motherboard bios defaults.
Shut off any adapters you are not using.
Bypass the initial memory check.
Put the windows boot device first in the priority list.

Run msconfig and look at the startup task list.
Disable anything that should not be there.

Lastly do not boot at all.
Use sleep to ram(not hibernate) The power state is about the same as shutting completely off, and you should sleep/wake is a few seconds.
 
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