windows 7 side bar

[blair]

before i upgraded my pc i could log in inside 30 secs, now after a format and reinstall of windows it take 30 sec on welcome screen then another 40 before the side bar starts to appear

why is it going so slow

 

[dugdiamond]

what were you using before?

 

[blair]

amd phenom x3 8400

2 gb ram

esc MB rubbish

 

[stevebarnes15]

running antivirus now?

 

[blair]

yea avg free but i had that before windows decided to take ages to log on windows is faster logging on after i OC the cpu to 3.8Ghz and the mem to 1704 but the sidebar still takes an additional 30 secs to appear, when i was OC the cpu the mem went up aswell and around 1800-1900 the sidebar came up instantly any ideas please.

thanks

 

[ionicle]

did you tune windows before? or tweak any settings that you may not have tweaked/tuned this time around?

 

[blair]

not that i can think of any tweaks i can do to it to make it faster?

 

[Ya93sin]

Soluto

Give it a go, don't use it to stop programs at start up, but you can easily see the things which take up time at boot. Then manually disable the cr*p you don't need through the software itself.

 

[blair]

i got 1min 3 sec avg takes 9 secs is this good?

 

[HeaT]

Pretty sure this is the problem. Had the same problem when i upgraded my pc.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977346

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9170/windows-7-welcome-screen-taking-forever-heres-the-fix-maybe/

They didn't fix it for me but updating Windows 7 to SP1 fixed it

 

[blair]

i havnt installed any updates since installation and last time i did it made my pc run very slow doubled the log on speed is this normal and should i update or can i leave it?

 

[HeaT]

i havnt installed any updates since installation and last time i did it made my pc run very slow doubled the log on speed is this normal and should i update or can i leave it?

I installed the same version on 2 pcs and my latest pc had the problem. Tried the updates etc but still didn't fix it so updated to SP1 and it was fixed