Haven't improved the time at all.
Think I can't see the forest for the trees? Ideas?
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This has been happenibg before the power outages, so don't think it has anything to do with it.
Thanks, Hans.HansV wrote:If you're willing to experiment: https://helgeklein.com/blog/2013/07/ana ... -analyzer/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Well I've got a HDD that I installed in my Win 98 machine that I built in 1998 and it still works, so if the SSD in my Win 10 box is still OK in 20 years time I'll be able to answer your question.John Gray wrote:Ah, but do they last as long...?
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I agree that an SSD drive would be faster and more up to date, But before this all started, my boot time was pretty acceptable at under a minute most times and that was fine with me. This is a recent annoyance, so I'm treating it as a problem not the need for an upgrase.BobH wrote:The real beauty of an SSD is the speed with which it boots a system. Although it might improve performance after start up, I don't think that can be easily detected.
I vote for the SSD, too.
In times past I was infected with a Rootkit virus that my AV and malware detectors missed. IIRC - and I've slept more than twice since then - one of the indicators of the problem was very slow booting. This was in the days before I installed an SSD and loaded Win7 on it. It might be worth a little 'Net searching to learn about rootkits and ways to detect and remove them.
No, I haven't, Joe. In fact the little I have heard of these patches is that they are rather "buggy" in themselves.JoeP wrote:Have you installed any of the Spectre/Meltdown fixes? For some chipsets and workloads a significant impact is incurred.
I'm with you on that. I have a little netbook that runs Win 7 Starter Ed. and uses MSE. It's never been speedy but everynow and then it really grinds and if I look in Task Manager, MSE is the thing that's hogging CPU time. Some times the slow down is worse than others but I can't see a patternviking33 wrote:...My prime suspect is still MS Essentials but I can't swear to it...
I would look at changes etc. When, what etc.* And since it's a HDD, I agree that it would be a good idea to check it with some disk software. Anything unusual in the Event logs, Bob? Any hardware changes? Any difference when booting online or offline (i.e. connected or not to the router)?viking33 wrote:I've been trying to identify what is causing a very slow start up, either cold boot or restart.
Maybe or it's taking an age to get through to the MS servers in order to download the latest virus definitions.Argus wrote:...but what is this with MSE? Is it scanning the drive during startup?...