Slow Boot After Upgrade
- I have upgrded my HP Latptop from Vista 64 bit to Windows 7 64 (Home Premium). Did an in place upgrade. Boot up times for Windows 7 are triple what they were for Vista. My computer was never quick to boot up - Vista taking about 3 minutes or so before you could actually load and use a program. Now however its 10 minutes before you can do anything with it. The hard drive light is on solid for the whole 10 minutes. Its fine once its loaded and may actually run a bit quicker than it did under Vista. But the boot up time is so stunningly bad that I am thinking of reverting to Vista.
Is there anyway to fix this?
Answers
Hello Ldroamer,
First of all, remove all unnecessary hardware devices from the computer, try entering Windows safe mode to test whether the same issue persists. If not, try the following steps to narrow down the issue.
Start Windows in Clean Boot mode
Note: You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure.
1) Click Start.
2) Copy and paste "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) in the Start Search box, and click Enter.
3) Switch to Services tab and then Check Hide All Microsoft Services.
4) Click Disable All.
5) Switch to the Startup tab and then Click Disable all.
6) Click OK.
7) Click Restart to restart the computer and test the issue.
In addition, we might download and run Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to check the known incompatibility issues. Thanks for your time and understanding!
Andy
- Marked As Answer byAndy SongMSFT, ModeratorMonday, November 16, 2009 5:30 AM
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Please try one of this solutions:
- Go to your BIOS and set it to default settings
- Plug your HDD in another slot
- Upgrade your BIOS version
- Go to msconfig and check the "use original boot configuration" option
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My bios is up to date with the latest version from the HP website. I updated the bios before upgrading to windows 7. Its a laptop so I can't plug the hard drive into another slot - there is only one. I will try the other two suggestions. And let you know.
In case it matters the laptop is an HP DV5 -1157ca. It has 4 gigs of ram, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, 2ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P7350, 320 gig sata drive (5400 rpm).
- Just a thought -You might want to try removing and then re-inserting the hard drive (with all power removed, of course). Sometimes the connections become slightly oxidized and re-seating the drive does the trick.
- Just a thought -You might want to try removing and then re-inserting the hard drive (with all power removed, of course). Sometimes the connections become slightly oxidized and re-seating the drive does the trick.
I'll give that a bash but I am not too optimistic on this one since it was booting reasonably quickly under Vista and the problems only started after the Win 7 upgrade. I re ran the windows experience test and the hard drive speed looks fine and comparable to what it was under Vista. But it doesn't hurt to try so if the other fixes suggested don't help I will give that a try.
- Okay tried change to use original boot configuration and rebooted - 22 minutes before it could display a web page.
Rebooted and set the bios to defaults - 11 minutes to display a web page (left msconfig set at "use original boot configuration").
So basically no improvement from where it was.
Any other idea? - Just an update. I was unable to get the boot up time below a 10 painful minutes. In fact for some reason it would sometimes take 15 minutes to boot to usable desktop and sometimes *only* 10. I did a clean install and boot up times are now acceptable but I lost a day of my life reinstalling everything I use - and I lost a couple of HP utilities that I liked (they are not available on the web site - only as part of the factory install).
Boot up times are still not spectacular and no better than my Vista install. I had read that boot up and shut down was faster on Windows 7 but in my case I see no evidence of that even with a clean install. However on the plus side I like the new windows interface and overall it does seem smoother and snappier than it did. A painful transition but hopefully it will be worth it. - Honestly i think that the upgrade option is useless and causes more headaches then it saves. Doing a clean install is a lot faster im my opinion and will get the computer running faster. It does take awhile to reinstall everything but i reinstall every 4 months so i am used to it.
Hi, try clening temp files using diskcleanup. and run disk defragmentor,
hope it should help.
Regards
Adi
A K- Hi,I have exacly the same problem.I have a Hp Pavilion Elite m9600, with a core i7 processor, 6Gb RAM, 1Tb Hardisk 5200rpm.I had the Windows Vista 64bits installed and i decided to request an upgrade for Windows i7 from HP.Yesterday,i decided to upgrade to Win7 and i was suprised with the time that it took to boot after the installation.Just for comparation, i have a Asus EeePC netbook, with a n280 processor and the Windows 7 32bits Release candidate version. This computer is, at least, 3 times faster than my new HP core i7.So my conclusion is that upgrades like this don't worth the time it took to complete (3 hours). A clean install continues to be the best option. I hoped that it could have changed with Windows 7 but ...Pedro
Honestly i think that the upgrade option is useless and causes more headaches then it saves. Doing a clean install is a lot faster im my opinion and will get the computer running faster.
Agree, most strongly!
If the upgrade install has been a successful one, and has provided a working installation which is in good order, then good and well. But if the upgrade install has resulted in residual problems then the only sensible path forward is to backup, wipe, and start over again with a clean install rather than with an upgrade install.Hello Ldroamer,
First of all, remove all unnecessary hardware devices from the computer, try entering Windows safe mode to test whether the same issue persists. If not, try the following steps to narrow down the issue.
Start Windows in Clean Boot mode
Note: You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure.
1) Click Start.
2) Copy and paste "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) in the Start Search box, and click Enter.
3) Switch to Services tab and then Check Hide All Microsoft Services.
4) Click Disable All.
5) Switch to the Startup tab and then Click Disable all.
6) Click OK.
7) Click Restart to restart the computer and test the issue.
In addition, we might download and run Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to check the known incompatibility issues. Thanks for your time and understanding!
Andy
- Marked As Answer byAndy SongMSFT, ModeratorMonday, November 16, 2009 5:30 AM
I will try this. I did a clean install and boot up times are still not the best but I will see what this does. I will also try some of the other tips posted. I do have both those HP services running so I will experiment with those.
Helpful tip:
If you have the HP AIO driver, look in Services for HP CUE DeviceDiscovery Service . Change its startup from Automatic to Automatic (Delayed Start) . I had found many Event Viewer entries indicating it had hung up during boot. (They corresponded mostly to booting while the printer was turned off, which is usually the case). The Delayed startup setting not only fixed that, it sped-up bootup considerably.
I also eliminated HP Digital Imaging Monitor from startup. It caused huge bootup delays, and only provides remote support of the printer's frontpanel buttons. That was a feature I can definitely live without.
I hope I'm not steering you guys wrong on this. It works for me .
- Well tried all the tricks posted here and nothing has made much difference. Even with a clean install from power on to being actually able to use a program it is over 5 minutes. Much better than it was after the inplace upgrade but still longer than it should be especially considering the computer has pretty decent specs. Disabling all non micorosoft services had basically no effect on start up times. Tried the tricks with the HP services but it didn't seem to make much difference either. Hard drive light is on solid from the moment it starts to boot until well after you can load a program. In other words hard drive seems to run constantly for 7 our 8 minutes (but you can load and use programs after about 5). I guess I can live with it but I have to admit to being disappointed by the fact that Windows 7 is slower to load than Vista.
Helpful tip:
If you have the HP AIO driver, look in Services for HP CUE DeviceDiscovery Service. Change its startup from Automatic to Automatic (Delayed Start). I had found many Event Viewer entries indicating it had hung up during boot. (They corresponded mostly to booting while the printer was turned off, which is usually the case). The Delayed startup setting not only fixed that, it sped-up bootup considerably.
I also eliminated HP Digital Imaging Monitor from startup. It caused huge bootup delays, and only provides remote support of the printer's frontpanel buttons. That was a feature I can definitely live without.
I hope I'm not steering you guys wrong on this. It works for me.
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