Ultra Slow startup

[bomberswarm2]

My computer from pressing the botton breaks down like this:
- 1 min until the motherboard spalsh screen disappears
- 30 seconds from that to the login screen.
- 31 seconds from typing in my password to showing the desktop
- 1 min 46 seconds from the desktop showing to 'response', by the test i do is click the chrome icon, wait for it to start, type somthing in, wait for it to appear in the search bar, and have the results displayed.
Almost 4 misn to boot my pc. I'm getting a new HDD soon, im not sure what other parts I should replace. Can you advise me on what to get? Thanks

 

[mamasan2000]

If you like to boot in 20 secs, get an SSD.

 

[millwright]

What operating system?
Sounds like malware to me.

 

[Shaun o]

Sounds to me like the Cpu is running at a very low frequency.
Have you checked in the bios what speed the cpu is running at in Mhz or Ghz.

If your getting a delay of the text for example when typing, to it being displayed.
Its a sign that the cpu is running at a very low clock speed. And if it is.
It explains why it takes over a minuet for the splash screen to ah heck off.

That will effect booting and loading times.
Because it processes everything from post to booting os.
ect.

Or it is the hard drive on it`s way out If it`s very old.
But it would leave me to believe the cpu was under clocked causing the slow performance.

 

[jeanl]

My computer from pressing the botton breaks down like this:
- 1 min until the motherboard spalsh screen disappears
- 30 seconds from that to the login screen.
- 31 seconds from typing in my password to showing the desktop
- 1 min 46 seconds from the desktop showing to 'response', by the test i do is click the chrome icon, wait for it to start, type somthing in, wait for it to appear in the search bar, and have the results displayed.
Almost 4 misn to boot my pc. I'm getting a new HDD soon, im not sure what other parts I should replace. Can you advise me on what to get? Thanks

I had a similar problem. The key to finding out what's going on is to use xbootmgr (from a dos command). This does a reboot, and logs everything that's going on. When the computer is done rebooting, you can go in the windows\system32 folder, and see the trace, and usually this will tell you what's going on. Specificall, you run: xbootmgr -trace boot -verboseReadyBoot
In my case, it was a prefetch issue: the trace showed that superfetch was missing every read, and that can completely kill your startup time. Mine was about 500s from start to finish! I fixed the prefetch issue (I had several issues, the defrag service was disabled, and the prefetch service was on delay start), and ran xbootmgr -trace boot -prepsystem -verbosereadyboot (this reboots the computer 6 times, taking notes of what memory needs to be loaded, then at the end uses defrag to layout everything sequentially so the prefetcher grabs everything in one shot the next time you boot).
This lowered the boot time to about 1 minute (along with delaying some services).
But even if your problem isn't prefetch, using xbootmgr will show you what's going wrong.
Jeanl