What the hell is is waiting for ?
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harold aptroot wrote:
A million services that all want to start at startup..
To be fair it is probably 50 services and 950,000 applications the user chooses to have ready to go.
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My Windows 7 machine has a fairly good processor and enough memory. It cold boots in less than a minute. But from this moment, it takes it from 5 minutes to reach full reactiveness. Yes, I said 5 minutes. I mean before it responds to a single click in less than, say 30 seconds ! Yes, I said 30 seconds. The interesting thing is that when I look at the performance meter, the PC is essentially... idle, close to 0% CPU all that time. So what the hell is it waiting for ?? [Don't misunderstand me, I am not looking for a solution. I have been amazed (if not irked) by this behavior since years, through the different versions of Windows. Seems to be a chronic disease.]
Geez man, what can I say, since I have an SSD and Windows 8, my machine goes from cold boot to ready to use in 9 seconds! I found that slow too! ;P
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My Windows 7 machine has a fairly good processor and enough memory. It cold boots in less than a minute. But from this moment, it takes it from 5 minutes to reach full reactiveness. Yes, I said 5 minutes. I mean before it responds to a single click in less than, say 30 seconds ! Yes, I said 30 seconds. The interesting thing is that when I look at the performance meter, the PC is essentially... idle, close to 0% CPU all that time. So what the hell is it waiting for ?? [Don't misunderstand me, I am not looking for a solution. I have been amazed (if not irked) by this behavior since years, through the different versions of Windows. Seems to be a chronic disease.]
Merry Xmas, YvesDaoust, In addition to inspecting, and possibly turning off, start-up programs/services, you might also consider: 1. defragment your hard drive, if you have not done that already: if you have, and that makes no difference in boot-time, proceed to step #2. I use Puran Defrag (free version) to defragment about once every ten days to three weeks. 2. and/or: open your 'Computer folder: right-click on your boot-drive, open the Properties Tab: open the Tools Tab: click the 'Check Now' button: check both "Automatically fix file system errors," and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors." Then re-boot, and be prepared to wait a long time while the boot drive is scanned for bad sectors, and (hopefully) any bad-sectors are "fixed." An alternate to #2: using sfc /scannow from a command prompt: see: [^]. yrs, Bill
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My Windows 7 machine has a fairly good processor and enough memory. It cold boots in less than a minute. But from this moment, it takes it from 5 minutes to reach full reactiveness. Yes, I said 5 minutes. I mean before it responds to a single click in less than, say 30 seconds ! Yes, I said 30 seconds. The interesting thing is that when I look at the performance meter, the PC is essentially... idle, close to 0% CPU all that time. So what the hell is it waiting for ?? [Don't misunderstand me, I am not looking for a solution. I have been amazed (if not irked) by this behavior since years, through the different versions of Windows. Seems to be a chronic disease.]
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My Windows 7 machine has a fairly good processor and enough memory. It cold boots in less than a minute. But from this moment, it takes it from 5 minutes to reach full reactiveness. Yes, I said 5 minutes. I mean before it responds to a single click in less than, say 30 seconds ! Yes, I said 30 seconds. The interesting thing is that when I look at the performance meter, the PC is essentially... idle, close to 0% CPU all that time. So what the hell is it waiting for ?? [Don't misunderstand me, I am not looking for a solution. I have been amazed (if not irked) by this behavior since years, through the different versions of Windows. Seems to be a chronic disease.]
Problem: You dont have a SSD ;p Solution: Get one. Even 128GB is enough for OS/apps.
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My Windows 7 machine has a fairly good processor and enough memory. It cold boots in less than a minute. But from this moment, it takes it from 5 minutes to reach full reactiveness. Yes, I said 5 minutes. I mean before it responds to a single click in less than, say 30 seconds ! Yes, I said 30 seconds. The interesting thing is that when I look at the performance meter, the PC is essentially... idle, close to 0% CPU all that time. So what the hell is it waiting for ?? [Don't misunderstand me, I am not looking for a solution. I have been amazed (if not irked) by this behavior since years, through the different versions of Windows. Seems to be a chronic disease.]
Is it running an app on startup that wants to make a network connection (to an unresponsive site)? /ravi
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Sorry, I don't want to. I consider this as a pathological behavior that needs to be denounced. A personal computer should have same or better reactivity as a laundry machine. (So far they needn't boot, let us cross fingers.)
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harold aptroot wrote:
A million services that all want to start at startup..
To be fair it is probably 50 services and 950,000 applications the user chooses to have ready to go.
I don't agree with that. Applications are just passive files and do no harm at boot time.
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Is it running an app on startup that wants to make a network connection (to an unresponsive site)? /ravi
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This is possible, who knows what is going on under the hood ? Anyway there is no reason why an application should block others, and in particular system processes.
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I don't agree with that. Applications are just passive files and do no harm at boot time.
YvesDaoust wrote:
I don't agree with that. Applications are just passive files and do no harm at boot time.
Err..no. There are any number of applications that insert themselves into the start up process. For example things that appear in the tray. And that is only one way in which they can show up.