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 #22 Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:44 PM
from the bottom of the page V02.61 american megatrends 1999-2008
so I have resident shield disabled and windows defender off. windows defender shut off when I disabled resident shield. of course now I'm getting messages that AVG is turned off when everything else (anti-virus, e-mail, rootkit) indicates active processes.
I've turned on window defender and excluded it from scanning itself, read somewhere that would help. it also recommended to turn it off all together but I'm a little reluctant to do that just yet.
Reply #23 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:08 PM
Download zip, no installation 64 bit file (1.56): http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z/versions-history.html
Un-zip and double click CPUID.exe. Snapshot the 'Mainboard' page and post.
Reply #24 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:08 PM
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.
Mine takes 22 seconds from the time i press the on button to Desktop........ 
SSD drives are GREAT!!!
Reply #25 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:24 PM
You shouldn't be running both at the same time, if they are realtime scanners. They can conflict and slow things down. Just a redneck opinion.
Reply #27 Saturday, December 18, 2010 11:28 PM
and before I forget, thanks all and especially yrag for helping, really appreciated.
little behind here, is driver agent any good?
Reply #28 Sunday, December 19, 2010 12:20 AM
No shit.....
Now open task manager, expand to show processes for all users and post that. Also post the CPU page of CPU-Z.
Reply #31 Sunday, December 19, 2010 5:48 AM
Did a turn outside last night. No big deal. Temp was 19F. 5:30 a.m. sitting in Dunkin Donuts hit the start button. Two minutes ten seconds to desktop on battery power.
Reply #32 Sunday, December 19, 2010 8:41 AM
I downloaded and installed that software and it's great for information! Thanks for the info Nimbin. I boot to Windows XP 32-bit right now, and my boot time from power-up is 1 minute 36 seconds and that is with loading 64 processes. I will definitely have to install it on my Windows Vista and Windows 7 partitions too. 
Reply #34 Sunday, December 19, 2010 9:42 AM
these are just the processes initially there are 60 something I'll do some cut and paste to a new post.
my wife turned on my computer last night to print something but we had to leave while the screen was still on "loading windows" when we came back 4 hours later it was still on the same screen.
Reply #36 Sunday, December 19, 2010 10:20 AM
wow! that's quite a long time. with my ssd, it takes my rig about 28 seconds to be usable after it posts. it takes 4 or 5 seconds for it to post after i hit the power button but it's at a usable desktop within 30 seconds after posting. i can't imagine why an i7-920 with 12 gigs of ram would take so long to boot. it's only a guess but maybe you have a bad sata controller. i'm sure gary (YRAG) will figure it out for you. actually, i guess i did imagine why. 
i agree with everyone regarding that Soluto app. it's a pretty darn good utility, imo.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Festivus, and all that other jazz to everyone out there.
Reply #37 Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:03 AM
Same here. i7-920 with SSD boots in under 30 seconds
Reply #38 Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:19 AM
Thanx and the same to you, MadDeez.
Fuzzy, I'm surprised yours doesn't boot before you push the button. 
Reply #39 Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:35 AM
ran the soluto program warm boot in 2.16min 64 apps and cold boot in 1.21min. reactivated resident shield and cold boot in 1.52, 53 apps, I did drop a few or put them on delay. but this morning's initial boot I ended up hitting the reset after waiting for 5+ minutes. be interesting what tomarrow brings. no I didn't have the soluto program installed for this morning's boot, bummer.
Phoon: nothing seems out of place in those registry locations.
anyone have an opinion on "driver agent"?
Reply #40 Sunday, December 19, 2010 12:44 PM
You don't need it. I'm not thrilled by TurboV.exe, but leave it be for now and stop putting services on 'Delay'.
When was the last time you defraged the drive, what usb/bluetooth gear is plugged into this and was 12 GB of ram always installed? I assume this has not always done this, so you did something of late.....ya gotta work with me on that one.
I'll ask, but I know the answer.... ever flashed a bios?
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Reply #21 Saturday, December 18, 2010 6:32 PM
Win 7 tells the time in Performance details.
What bios version is the MB running with?