morning boot time
Saturday, December 18, 2010 by gmc2 | Discussion: Windows 7
In the morning I turn on my computer, turn on the coffee pot, feed the cat, etc.
by the time the coffee is made my pc is still booting up. sometimes it takes as long as 20 minutes to boot, seems excessive.
anyone else having this time delay.
rebooting during the day takes less time, usually under 5 minutes.
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Reply #2 Saturday, December 18, 2010 8:32 AM
Check your 'puter for nasties (malware/Trojans and viruses), Greg. 
Reply #3 Saturday, December 18, 2010 9:01 AM
Definitely check for nasties. My laptop takes less than a minute to boot up. When I discovered two trojans and assorted malware it was taking three to five minutes, max. When I got rid of them it went back to its normal boot time. Run CCleaner then Malwarebytes or whatever utility you use. One of them is bound to find the cause.
Reply #4 Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:28 AM
guess this is a maintenance day, ran avg scans, spybot, disk cleanup and ccleaner, all looking good. reboot was quick at about 2 minutes. see what happen tomorrow morning.
Reply #5 Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:35 AM
Surely an issue. Mine boots up in about a minute. Of course I never turn it off. What OS are you running?
Reply #7 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:33 AM
cold boot was just about 3 minutes (it's the morning boot that takes so long)
are you guys really sure that it takes less than a minute from a cold boot?
warm boot = restart.
cold boot = CPU has been powered down and then started up.
Reply #8 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:39 AM
Mine boots cold in under a minute............ Win7 Ultimate. 
Reply #9 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:43 AM
Greg...also check what you've got running in your Startup Menu... could be the amount of stuff together with the amount of RAM?
Reply #10 Saturday, December 18, 2010 12:08 PM
All mine take less than a minute....a whole lot of programs in startup mode will really slow down the boot process too!
Reply #11 Saturday, December 18, 2010 12:09 PM
RAM = 12 gigs should be enough...? (win7 home professional) ASUS boot screen lasts for about 30 secs, loading windows screen lasts for about 2 minutes and loading win7 home professional takes about 30 seconds.
I'll time it in the morning again, thanks all.
Reply #12 Saturday, December 18, 2010 12:23 PM
Check CMOS and try turning on FastBoot if it's off.
Reply #14 Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:16 PM
check this registry setting too...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
see if anything funky is running that should not be.
You might also want to check to see if there is a major AV scan or something happening on that boot.
Reply #15 Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:11 PM
interesting, when I click on advanced tools from this window it shows 3 performance issues
the first is AVG AVI loader driver, the second indicates that I'd get better performance with changing color scheme to windows basic (not) and the third is the antimalware service executable
Reply #16 Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:25 PM
Your Nvidia drivers are old. My guess is, so is everything else. I don't think that's the problem.
Pull the ethernet plug, disable AVG and any other malware apps. Shutdown and time restart.
Reply #17 Saturday, December 18, 2010 3:09 PM
how and where do I disable AVG and the malware app. I can disable AVG for a time but it starts back up on reboot. Malware is the MS download.
fast boot is enabled.
I'll look into updating the drivers but I think I had to roll back cause of an issue nvidia had with??? but that has been some time ago, surely that should have been corrected by now.
I'm holding off on the registry looksee at the moment.
Reply #18 Saturday, December 18, 2010 3:50 PM
If the drivers work for you, leave them be. Open AVG and disable "Resident Shield". Let Windows Defender run. Now try the cold boot.
What Asus board is it?
Reply #19 Saturday, December 18, 2010 4:31 PM
processor info? - intel i7cpu 920 @ 2.67 GHZ, 2668 MHz, 4 cores, 8 logical processors
motherboard P6T. boot time 2min 20sec.
Reply #20 Saturday, December 18, 2010 4:59 PM
Can i suggest that you download and run this progran from Soluto. It's a boot analyser and will analyse your computer while it is booting then present you with a graphical window of everything that loads at startup (including windows files) and also give you the time that each process is taking. With this information you may be able to locate and disable the offending processes that are being time hogs. Once you have finished analysing, either disable soluto from running at startup or uninstall until the next time you need it. Good luck. http://www.soluto.com/
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 18, 2010 8:32 AM
None of my systems take over a minute to boot. Yes, that's extremely excessive.