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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

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morning boot time

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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CarGuy1

Join Date 03/2007

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None of my systems take over a minute to boot. Yes, that's extremely excessive.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Check your 'puter for nasties (malware/Trojans and viruses), Greg.

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Uvah

Join Date 05/2006

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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.

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

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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.

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Chasbo

Join Date 01/2005

+943

Surely an issue. Mine boots up in about a minute. Of course I never turn it off. What OS are you running?

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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7, Chasbo...check the Forum he posted in.

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

+296

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.

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BoXXi

Join Date 03/2001

+385

Mine boots cold in under a minute............ Win7 Ultimate.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

+4048

Greg...also check what you've got running in your Startup Menu... could be the amount of stuff together with the amount of RAM?

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navigatsio

Join Date 07/2004

+133

All mine take less than a minute....a whole lot of programs in startup mode will really slow down the boot process too!

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

+296

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.

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CarGuy1

Join Date 03/2007

+548

Check CMOS and try turning on FastBoot if it's off.

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What are the specs on this machine?

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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.

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

+296

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

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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.

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

+296

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.

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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?

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

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processor info? - intel i7cpu 920 @ 2.67 GHZ, 2668 MHz, 4 cores, 8 logical processors

motherboard P6T. boot time 2min 20sec.

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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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Win 7 tells the time in Performance details.

What bios version is the MB running with?

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

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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.

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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.

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Robbie_Boy

Join Date 03/2005

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Quoting gmc2,

reply 7

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.

Mine takes 22 seconds from the time i press the on button to Desktop........

SSD drives are GREAT!!!

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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how and where do I disable AVG and the malware app.

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.

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