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Windows 7 SP1 Boot Extremely Slow

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Okay so my laptop booted to the desktop in 40 seconds, now it takes 2 minutes.
I have a HP G62-348CA laptop with AMD Phenom x3, 4GB ram, 640GB 5400RPM hdd.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and this problem only aroused since the install of SP1. (I uninstalled it once and the boot time got a lot faster after but then I reinstalled to check)
I rebooted about 10 times loading completely for many times and tried this thread before; external link
How to speed up boot process under Windows Vista or Windows 7 - MSFN Forum
I uploaded my bootrace here. Can someone take a look for me? (its on my own server)
http://www.ghnz.net/wilson/bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_6.cab
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:58 PM
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Super Andre would want the etl file, not the cab file. Note that the etl file will have your ip address, unless you're using a router.
Make sure that c:\windows\prefetch\layout.ini exists, or Readyboot will miss all its caches.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:33 PM -
Sure, its 94mb though so I uploaded it to my server. Canadian upload is slow, took me 40 minutes.
http://www.ghnz.net/wilson/bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_6.etl
Saturday, April 16, 2011 5:12 AM -
The link just sends me to a squatting site. You can also zip the etl file and put it on skydrive.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:26 PM -
I fixed the link a couple days ago. Can SOMEBODY PLEASE look into this slow boot time?
Hi.Monday, April 25, 2011 6:00 PM -
Monday, April 25, 2011 6:01 PM
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You can look at the graph yourself: 'xperf bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_6.etl' Do you see under ReadyBoot how there's a lot of black? Maybe you don't have a c:\windows\prefetch\layout.ini yet? It only gets made when you're idle, or you can run the command: 'start /wait rundll32 advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks'. This also defrags every file in the resulting layout.ini for boot optimization, although the defragging didn't seem to do anything amazing for me. Then do the 5 reboot/logins again.
Monday, April 25, 2011 6:36 PM -
You can look at the graph yourself: 'xperf bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_6.etl' Do you see under ReadyBoot how there's a lot of black? Maybe you don't have a c:\windows\prefetch\layout.ini yet? It only gets made when you're idle, or you can run the command: 'start /wait rundll32 advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks'. This also defrags every file in the resulting layout.ini for boot optimization, although the defragging didn't seem to do anything amazing for me. Then do the 5 reboot/logins again.
Anyway to rebuild the layout.ini file? I see some outdated boot files still in there.Saturday, May 7, 2011 4:10 AM -
Just delete it, and run the rundll32 command again. (Don't you hate it in I.T. when someone says 'just'?)
Saturday, May 7, 2011 7:25 AM -
Just delete it, and run the rundll32 command again. (Don't you hate it in I.T. when someone says 'just'?)
Did that, still doesn't work. I boot in like 2-3 minutes. But it hangs on the windows flag screen for a while then hdd activity starts after 1-2 minutes and then the actual booting process begins, (I believe).
Step by step;
Press power button
HP logo
windows flag screen (flag doesn't appear yet, only "starting windows...." (this lasts for 1-2 minutes)
hdd indicator starts flashing like mad2-6 seconds later i notice the flag is animated and everything else is normal.
I just can't figure out why it does nothing for 1-2 minutes. (only happens, on sp1)
Hi.
Sunday, May 8, 2011 5:45 AM -
Try physically removing all devices possible and see if it boots any faster.
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Hi.Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:08 AM