So my dads been complaining about his desktop pc having a very slow startup time. Once it starts up though, the pc is fast

It takes about 3-4 minutes to start up. It will sit on the windows startup screen for a couple minutes that says windows or whatever it says, and then after about a minute or two the windows symbol pops up and it will soon start up.

I'm running a scan right now, but I dont think its a virus.

I looked at the event log, and I noticed that there is warnings and errors that pop up each time the computer is turned on.

Look at today's date, is when i turned the computer on for the first time today
Here's a pic. Any clue what this may be related too?



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Ok so under control panel, performance infor and tools, advanced tools, there was the warning saying something about devices are causing problems with the computer to sleep.

I clicked it, and it went away so i dont have the exact wording

edit: it didnt go away just hid behind my scan window, i'll take a screen shot and put it up here

 

I'd look in the device manager and find out whose the manufacturer of the hard drive then go get their diagnostic program. I'd run that first to rule out an imminent drive failure.

Edit: I'd also pop open the case and check to see if there's excess dust on the fan/heatsink.

 

here is the image, but it looks like this is causing it to hibernate or go to standby slowly

I dunno what this has to do with turning it on


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I gotta check with my dad if he is actually turning of the computer, maybe its taking a long time to start up from hibernate??

 

I'll try the diagnostic,

we already cleaned out the computer so thers no dust,

I still think its something else that is causing it, I dont think the hard drive is failing, its been like this for a while now

here's an image of my device manager, maybe its the portable devices thats a problem?


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unplug everything you have usb related then shutdown/restart. See if its still slow.

 

doing it, but see the only things connected through usb is the mouse, and his external which if you look under devices in my pic just posted you will see it as wd passport,so i dunno why it shows all those warnings there

And it is still taking a while to start up, currently working on the diagnostic tool

 

finished running the diagnostic, and it says it passed...

 

sfc /scannow
sigverif
have you tried uninstalling the drivers for the portable devices and then restarting?

 

I'll try that when I get back, what does the bold mean?

 

sigverif just confirms that your driver files are digitally signed. The driver in question should be, it it shows up in the list then it's not and means you should look into that.

sfc = System File Checker looks for corrupted system files and then automatically replaces them with good copies.

It's fixed some weird problems I've seen before

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolso...fc-scannow.htm

 

weird, i'm trying that, but its saying i'm not the admin, which i am


By pirran90 at 2011-06-17

also my friend is having me try the bootrec /fixboot but that wont work, or BootRec.exe /?

 

right-click on cmd prompt and choose run as administrator or ctrl + shift + enter

 

ooops lol, yea i'm noob at the technical stuff, i'm doing it in safemode currently haha

 

finished scan did not find any integrity violations

 

so i'm trying to type in bootrec in the command prompt and it says its not recogized as an internal or external comman, operable program or batch files, i'm thinking some files might be corrupted?

another thing to add

dir/s bootrec.exe

File not found

So this computer is missing boot files apparently?

 

what does the details tab of this event say?

 

The problem is obviously with the USB driver IDK why you're looking into boot files. If it didn't have all it's boot files then it wouldn't turn on at all.....

 

speedemon90, is that an internal card reader you have there? You mentioned the only external USB devices were the WD and mouse... I'd try unplugging the card reader from the USB header... just a hunch.

 

I forgot to mention I uninstalled those drivers that had those symbols next to it. No difference. Unless there is something else I can do, I'll get to it tomorrow now, to tired to do the other stuff now.

 

Yeaa so I don't want to read through 62 pages of this, but my question is: if I currently have Windows Vista on my laptop, can I upgrade to Windows 7 for free?

Vista is such a POS and has like 3 automatic updates every day

 

no

 

Shit. Do you know how much it is to upgrade then?

edit: I saw it is $50

 

do you still have your student university email address? Or know anyone that does?

http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/...s/default.aspx

As for my pc fix, its gonna be on hold, i'm back at school for the time being.

 

Need to get yourself setup with logmein or teamviewer.

 

Logmein is pretty spectacular for a free remote access solution.

 

I just found out team viewer has a self executing admin/client package. One exe file for each, no install files. You just run the client file and it gives a code and password. You enter those numbers on the admin side, bam, remote access.

 

well i talked to my dad today, and i told him over the weekend that i think it may be a usb problem or something with the boot files i dunno, but he did looked into the usb problem and found that a feature that offers like a quick photo transfer light was always blinking, its next to the usb drives also, dunno what connector it is, but anyway, he ran that back to the motherboard and disconnected it, and now the computer is perfectly fine. So that thing was causing issues.

 

Ok, who knows something about Live Movie Maker. A co-worker asked if I'd transfer about 50 clips from SD Card to DVD. However, I'd like to have an index or something rather than just string all of them together. Is it possible to have a thumbnail of each clip on an index page so they can navigate through the clips? Then maybe an option to play all?

 

FYI Office 365 went live today and Office 2010 SP1 was released yesterday....

you can download SP1 here
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en....aspx?id=26622

 

Was reading about 365 earlier. Think the monthly payment thang is a good idea?

 

$6/mo is pretty good deal. It's $1 more than google apps but you get a lot more stuff and you don't have to worry about compatibility issues.

for $6/mo per user you get hosted exchange email, office web apps, sharepoint online and lync server. If you go up to the $16/mo it includes full PC version of Office 2010 pro and a few other things like AD integration and advanced archive support for exchange.

you can see the breakdowns here

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/offic...nterprise.aspx

 

I got a problem on my laptop, well two, but they might be related?

So waking up my computer from sleep takes a while, according to the performance thing in control panel, its one of my drivers. There was another one too, but I uninstalled that since I didnt need it.
Here is this one. Although I have no clue which driver it is? And I dunno if I use it?


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My other problem, I get the occasional freeze. It usually happens when I'm watching a video (no its not porn lol) could be anything from youtube, to streaming shows. Actually I think everytime its been while watching a video. My speakers just make this buzz sound/picture freezes and computer doesnt respond to anything. Before I thought my computer was overheating, now I think its due to a driver problem as well?

 

bump for inclusion in teh new forum

 

Stunna I figure your the guy to ask here. I have a box with Windows 7 and 6 mirrored drives and 1 SSD for the OS. I want to do a fresh install of the OS. Do I need to break the mirrors in disk management before I do the fresh install or can I just leave them and install 7 and to a re-sync?

 

If the drives for data is mirrored by hardware, then no, if by Windows then yes.

 

they are mirrored through windows. thanks wsklar

 

I don't think you do. On the new system they should show up as "foreign disks". Right click on them and choose import foreign disk and it was want you to choose which drives go together. Select the two disks that were part of the same dynamic disk on the last OS and they should work just fine.

I don't think it will make a difference if you convert them to basic or take the dynamic disk offline.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc938492.aspx

 

Recover Tons of Wasted Disk Space with the New Windows Update Cleanuphttp://lifehacker.com/recover-tons-o...ows-1442937625

I did this last night on a friend's dad's PC and was able to clean up about 6.5GB of space in obsolete updates! He called because he was running really low on space, so this update came out just in time.


This page has instructions on how to automate it
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfepla...1-clients.aspx

Download link here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2852386

 

8 has it built in, but sometimes it messes things up if you want to do a refresh or reinstall.