Troubleshoot Windows 7 taking longer than expected to boot on new PC

[SkyJP]

Briefly explain your current issue(s)

As above

Steps taken to resolve, but have been unsuccessful

Many startup applications have been disabled.

Only "Google Drive", "Bluetooth LE Services Control Program" and "Intel PROSet/Wireless Bluetooth" run on boot. Kaspersky 2015 is on the new PC as well, but is set to "Concede resources to OS".

 

[Venustus]

Only "Google Drive", "Bluetooth LE Services Control Program" and "Intel PROSet/Wireless Bluetooth" run on boot. Kaspersky 2015 is on the new PC as well, but is set to "Concede resources to OS".

Remove Kaspersky and report back!

 

[Deleted member 21043]

The issue could be Kaspersky. Antivirus software may effect boot times.

 

[jamescv7]

Terrific advice by @venustus, honestly those feature disabled will only give a very slight improvement. The thing here is once an application is installed then its gathering enough resource usage upon boot up/ idle and shut down times.

 

[SkyJP]

Uninstalled Kaspersky, but boot time still took approx 4 minutes in two instances.

For "boot time", I mean the time it takes to boot into windows and login so all applications are loaded and the desktop is visible.

When I log in, I encounter a black screen (with the cursor visible) and it stays like this for a while (a minute or two) and this never happened before. I assume this is what is causing the slow boot time.

 

[Koroke San]

How old is ur HDD? Did u scan ur harddisk for bad sectors? And wut other service & programs launch at startup? Can u post a screen of it, brah?

 

[jamescv7]

There are many possibilities:

1) Try to defrag HDD so to organize all the fragments for better optimization of performance.
2) Give a shot for Readyboost although if you have really enough RAM and other specification then it should not be an issue.

Final resort is to conduct a fresh installation and observe those possible longer boot times as you install software.

 

[Venustus]

It seems the only variable is that some software was installed which affected your boot time!
By the process of deduction I would assume that something has happened since installing the software!

 

[SkyJP]

Hard drive is nearly 2 months old.

These are the services and programs currently running (on boot):



Glanced over at Auslogics Disk Defrag which nearly killed my eyes. Should I do a prefetch layout defrag....?

 

[Venustus]

Hard drive is nearly 2 months old.

These are the services and programs currently running (on boot):
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Glanced over at Auslogics Disk Defrag which nearly killed my eyes. Should I do a prefetch layout defrag....?
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Not sure about the servives and weather you need BT running?
As for defragmenting, I would do a "Space Defrag" first to consolidate all that free space that you have shown in the SS!

 

[Koroke San]

Hard drive is nearly 2 months old.

These are the services and programs currently running (on boot):
View attachment 58665View attachment 58666


Glanced over at Auslogics Disk Defrag which nearly killed my eyes. Should I do a prefetch layout defrag....?
View attachment 58667

You probably running more stuff in startup coz i see in startup screenshot after bittorrent there is a lot of stuff & u don't scroll down. If u don't use bluetooth or use less then disable all in startup what u posted in screenshot coz u don't need bittorrent, adobe reader & specially google chrome to run at startup. There a lots of junk service running at startup. U can set some straup service like adobe to run automatic delayed at startup. Do u have enable any theme ? run command prompt with administrator right & run scf/scannow command.Also u can scan ur PC like ESET online scanner for malware to sure there is no infections running at startup.

 

[SkyJP]

Nothing else runs at startup. Everything else is disabled or invalid entries. Now, only Google Drive and Spotify (Web Helper) run at boot.

A lot of the services do not run at boot either (they are most set to 'manual').

 

[Venustus]

Nothing else runs at startup. Everything else is disabled or invalid entries. Now, only Google Drive and Spotify (Web Helper) run at boot.

A lot of the services do not run at boot either (they are most set to 'manual').

Can we assume that you have not disabled any "critical" system services that need to run for the operating system to run efficiently?

 

[SkyJP]

These are the only ones that are disabled (I don't think I've messed around with the services recently though).

 

[Koroke San]

u should disable google driver & spotify & check ur boot time. did u scaned ur harddisk for error?

 

[Venustus]

That's weird!
Something has fudged your boot times!
What that could be I cannot say!
Maybe other members can be of further assistance to you

 

[Koroke San]

You can downlaod
Autoruns Portable & check ' logon ' , ' schedule ' & driver ' tab ' . This lil utility is very helpful.

 

[SkyJP]

Boot took about 3 minutes, with nothing selected in msconfig. The only I can see running on startup are probably BatteryBar, ELAN Touchpad (for multi gestures) and Canon IJ Network Scanner Tool EX (can't really get rid of it but this was the first things I installed as it's from my printer).

Just completed sfc /scannow and said 'Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them" and placed a CBS.log file....

 

[Venustus]

Boot took about 3 minutes, with nothing selected in msconfig. The only I can see running on startup are probably BatteryBar, ELAN Touchpad (for multi gestures) and Canon IJ Network Scanner Tool EX (can't really get rid of it but this was the first things I installed as it's from my printer).

Just completed sfc /scannow and said 'Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them" and placed a CBS.log file....

Open cmd with admin priviliges and type:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Than reboot!

 

[SkyJP]

Came up with:

C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth


Error: 18

An error occurred while loading DISM. The DISM tool may be corrupt.
Try reinstalling DISM.

C:\Windows\system32>