Speed up boot time

dave1701

dave1701

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When I installed windows on this machine it was speed as could be starting up. However, now it is considerably slower than it used to be. A couple of months and 1 motherboard later, I now suffer through much slower boot times. I have disabled all unnecessary things in msconfig start-up, but is there anything else I can do? Could there perhaps be something left over from the motherboard change that is running?
 
Other than doing a scandisk and defrag, theres not much you can do. Maybe third party registry optimisers, but i dont trust them. Is your 160gb C:?
 
Did you do a fresh install of windows? If not, you need to. Anytime you change the motherboard unless its the exact same one or close then you will have issues.
 
Check any program updates that are running in the background. AV and malware progs may be updating on boot. Mostly can be prevented from doing so. The same progs may be scanning the executables on start which can slow things down a lot.

You can start up Task Manager ASAP to see which processes are taking time to get going.

If you happen to use PerfectDisk you can let it manage the defragging of files needed to start the PC. Other defraggers may have similar. I doubt it makes a big difference.
 
Shlouski said:
Other than doing a scandisk and defrag, theres not much you can do. Maybe third party registry optimisers, but i dont trust them. Is your 160gb C:?
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No, windows is on my 40gb one.

Did you do a fresh install of windows? If not, you need to. Anytime you change the motherboard unless its the exact same one or close then you will have issues.
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No I didn't. I was too lazy. It's been working ok.
 
Other useful items to speed things up :

NOTE : Johnb35 is absolutely correct when he says you must do a reinstall. Reason being different mobos, different hardware, - different drivers; so you have to reinstall to get correct drivers for the hardware on your current mobo.

1) Clean any unnecessary junk off of "C".
2) Run a defrag to clean up your file organization.
3) Run "Registry First Aid" to see how many registry errors your "Windopes" install has. Sonja's laptop was running slowly and I ran an RFA check on it and it has 1407 registry errors. Wonder is, it even boots.

NOTE : RFA is a very good registry checker, it will find just about everything there is wrong in there; BUT although it is also very good at coming up with proposed solutions to any given error, (usually several for each error), DO NOT LET IT DECIDE WHAT CHANGES TO MAKE !!! Instead uncheck the fix for every error, then go through the errors one at a time yourself. If you are sure that some particular solution presented is right then checkmark that solution for repair. Otherwise leave things unchanged so as to not make things worse.
 
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