How To Make Windows 7 Machine Boot Up Quickly
Apr 27, 2012
I have read many articles on how to make your computer boot quickly. I have tried several, but after a month or so they become very slow again. I have four laptops and three PCs in my home. While they are from different manufacturers, they are all no more then a year old and running Windows 7 Home Premium. With my Internet service I have Norton installed. My newest computer can take up to 2 full minutes, while one of the laptops can be as quick as 45-50 seconds. Specifically what is the magic formula or method of how I can get all my systems to boot up quickly and continue to do so in future?
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Oct 26, 2011
I'm currently building a Server as well as in the market to snag a new laptop. How would I go about making my computer a virtual machine so that I could port over to my new gig.
Reason for this is that eventually I would love to get myself more "Organized" with where I keep important documents versus random crap. Stored all over my various machines.
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Jan 3, 2012
I noticed an interesting attack on my fully patched windows 7 home premium system at the standard user level: I don't know exactly how this was done, but I do have some traces (Keep in mind that I had disabled UPnP services beforehand):
1. Auto proxy checker had executed.
2. Teredo Tunneling and about 15 ISATAP tunneling adapters were created.
3. Malware successfully bypassed my two-way firewall and transmitted to the outside.
It looks like malware is able to successfully use ipv6 Teredo Tunneling and ISATAP tunneling to confuse my two-way firewall and use tunneling loops to send traffic outside. I had UPnP blocked, but they used tunneling tricks to bypass the firewall rules.Because the use of tunneling loops bypassed my firewall rules I would like to permanently disable the actual services for VPN and tunneling on my Windows 7 machine. What services need to be disabled to make my Windows 7 machine absolutely VPN and tunnel proof?
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Nov 29, 2012
I wanted to use my 180gb ssd as a boot drive and I do not know what to do. I installed windows and some drivers on the hdd but i want to start over and I need some guidance.I am doing a clean install now. once thats done how do i make the ssd the boot drive to make my system scream! also will i need to put drivers on both hdd and ssd?
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May 24, 2011
I have a windows 7 pro 64 bit HP desktop computer that will not load windows. I have tried safemode, safemode w/ networking, and last know good config. I've run startup repair both from windowsRE and an original windows 7 pro disk. I have attempted multiple system restores (non destructive) to a number of different dates. The system restores say that they work but the machine still loops.
I know it's just some small windows corruption. I would have no trouble backing up my files with a linux distribution live flash drive and restoring the OS but I REALLY don't want to do that. How can I identify and repair the problem without starting from scratch. I'm familiar with msdos cli, but don't know which commands (if any) will help. I also don't know of any live CD's/ tools that will allow me to fix this problem. My problem here is simply lack of information.
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Jun 18, 2012
I am doing a fesh install of Win 7 from a pre-SP1 DVD.The last time I did this, Windows update dowloaded and installed literally hundreds of patches before and after SP1, taking hours.How can skip to SP1 and avoide downloading all of those unnecessary patches?I am installing to SSD, so in additional to saving time, I also want to minize space
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Nov 17, 2011
A couple of months ago I was working on a logo design in Adobe Illustrator CS5 (I'm a graphic designer) when the power in my town cut out for a moment. It shut the computer down, and since then I noticed that it takes quite a long time for the machine to boot up... 5 or more minutes.
Also since then, every time I buy and install a new font it does not keep the font installed. I have to continuously reinstall them. Anything installed prior to that day is fine, but new fonts since then just won't stay put.
I'm using a Dell Studio XPS with Windows 7 Pro.
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Jan 19, 2012
Windows 7 on Novell Network. On boot up the Novell Logon screen comes up first and Username is correct and then Password is entered. The next screen is the Windows 7 Logon. The username is incorrect and no password is used. The correct username must be typed in.How do I get the correct username in the Windows 7 Logon on boot up of machine? On my XP machines the NWGINA.dll handles this procedure. What handles the boot up in Windows 7 and how do you put in the defaults?
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Feb 17, 2012
I have a friend who just picked up a brand new Toshiba laptop from Best Buy. It worked great the first two days, then suddenly slowed down to the point that it takes almost a half hour to boot. At first I thought it may be software issues so I wiped the entire computer and installed a new copy of Windows 7 from the recovery disk. This fixed nothing.Since then I have tried disabling the startup processes with msconfig Running GREP to see if he had a rootkit already.Running Avast, Malwarebytes, etc.Running Ultimate Boot CD to use their CPU, HD and Memory diagnostic tools.All of which have turned up no errors, no viruses no problems.what else could be causing such a massive delay?I plan on having him return this laptop and getting another one anyway, but Its not often I cant fix a PC I am given.
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Nov 19, 2012
When I get to the splash screen it just blinks. It won't boot. I've tried going into the safe mode by pressing F8 at the previous screen. I've tried booting from a start disk. It won't go into the advanced boot options, and booting from a disk made no difference. This has happened before but I was able to get in through safe mode. Once I get in I can do a system restore and it will work for a while. How can I get in to my machine?
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Nov 23, 2011
I am trying to upgrade windows vista ultimate 32 bit to windows 7 ultimate 32 bit on a computer i built. I've tried custom installation and the recommended installation, but the same problem arises. The problem is, whenever the computer goes to restart, it does not boot back up. So, during the installation, it starts to restart, but does not boot back up, but the machine is still running.
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Oct 9, 2011
I have my computer plugged into my TV. I use HDMI connection. I find my system font a little small on my TV but i want to keep the current font size, while my desktop is switched over to my computer monitor. is there a way i can quickly and easily change windows font size? i have a feeling this will require at least a logoffI know there are settings to change size of most things, including font, but that's too much trouble every time i switch back and forth. whatg would be really cool, would be if windows recognized my preference automatically
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Jun 8, 2010
I've tried the Photo viewer in Windows 7 and it is not a patch on the old XP photo viewer in the ease of being able to print multiple photos.In the XP you could click on any thumb nail and then Print.This then brought up all your thumbnails and you could make a multiple selection by ticking the wanted thumbnails.This is not possible in Windows. In order to print multiple prints of thumbnails you have to rename the thumbnails so they are in order in the file. Then you highlight them, right click for Print and then select the amount of prints per page.This adds several unnecessary actions while prolonging of the whole opeation by minutes. have tried other viewers which may , or may not, be better for editing or
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Jan 4, 2012
i have Lan, all computers are windows 7 proffisional and one machine is windows 2003 , workgroup . i made shared folder in windows2003 , some computers can access the shared folder and others can not.when i open network , i see the 2003 computer, when i try to access it , it asked for user name and password. the user is administrator for all , when i enter the user and password from many computers in the lan it is work correctly but in one machine with the same settings its says , you have no permession to access this computer.
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Mar 5, 2012
I have an Alienware M18X.The problems I'm having is when I start the laptop up I am prompt to run a recovery. Of course I do, but it brings up a "Loading Items" bar. I am not sure if this is normal, next screen that comes up is the blue wallpaper. At this point, all I see is the wallpaper, and the curser. Please make a note that there is nothing else on this screen and I let it sit on that screen for about 15 minutes. This happens with both Normally booting and the recovery option. I cannot seem to find the Safe Boot option anymore. I have both Unbuntu and Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit installed on this laptop.
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Sep 22, 2010
I have de-commissioned an older machine that I had installed W7 on, I wish to install the W7 from this machine to another, is this possible -if so how?I think I have read somewhere, that once W7 is installed on a machine - it can NEVER be used on any other machine, is this correct?
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Jan 23, 2012
I usually have to boot my machine twice. I boot the first time, log into my (domain) account, and once windows loads, I get a BSOD. After that, if I reboot, the system works all day.
This happens if I'm bringing it out of sleep or hibernate too, but it has to be inactive for a few hours for it to give a BSOD.
I am running a Dell Latitude D620.
Windows 7 Pro 32 bit (fully licensed)
4 GB RAM
Intel T2500 2.00 GHz processor
Joined to a domain
Attached is the BSOD reports requested.
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Sep 14, 2010
1. I have a FUJITSU MHZ2160BH G2 2.5 ATA Hard Drive which is an moving parts hard drive. Id like to replace this with a Solid State much large hard drive. Are all 2.5 Hard Drives the same in terms of the generic size? I.e. do I simply just screw the back of the laptop, take out the old and put in the new?
2. I have a three partitions that I would like to clone. I have a dual boot, Windows 7 and Ubuntu laptop with shared hosting. Is Clonezilla the best for this do you think? Its a little complicated in that Id like to copy the existing hard drive and then in the new hard drive increase the partitions by 15 gig each - and then copy the 3 partitions in.
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Nov 23, 2011
do u use Linux and Windos dual boot machine?
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Dec 28, 2009
Ok, so I've read the tutorial on how to dual boot Windows 7 with XP (Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP)
I have Windows 7 64bit currently installed and need to dual boot with XP 32b. My question is, once I have successfully dual-booted my machine (and did what I need to do), how do I completely uninstall XP? Can I merge the two partitions back into one primary without affecting my Windows 7? I basically want my machine back the way it was before I dual-booted XP (without formatting and starting over). This possible?
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Mar 21, 2011
I have a HDD that has Windows 7 installed on it. I want to connect this drive to another machine, and boot it as a virtual machine. (i.e. boot the OS on the drive in another OS on machine #2).
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Oct 14, 2012
I have a Win. XP machine. The Blackmagic hardware that I am installing wants to be in a Win. 7 64 bit machine.Can I make this a dual boot machine?
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May 13, 2012
I am looking at an Alienware m17x laptop, and in the options, there are multiple RAID choices,and what appeals to me is a 64gb SSD and a 500gb 7200rpm HDD, but how can one run one system on two harddrives, and for example, how could I install games onto the SSD to run quickly, but media on the HDD?
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Jun 10, 2012
how to make a win 7 boot disk then add programs that are avaiable on this site and run them off a dvd to try and bring a Dell laptop that i purchased last year. also if there are other scanning software that can be recommended would be useful. I have some computer background, but not advanced. One last item, is there such a scanning software that can detect injected services that are hooked in win 7 to slow down your laptop?
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Oct 10, 2011
I'm building a new computer and I heard that you can make a bootable windows 7 boot disk? It could save me $100+.
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Mar 18, 2011
My laptop takes longer to finish booting (60-70 seconds) than my slower desktop that boots up in about 35-45 seconds.
My laptops CPU is a Core i5 vs my desktop which is an old Pentium 4 HT. I've disabled the same amount of programs to start up on both so I don't know why the laptop is taking longer. how to improve the boot time?
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Mar 25, 2012
i did a little researching last night to find out how to make my os boot faster, right now its a solid 40 seconds from pressing the on button to usable desktop. my rig is an i7 960, x58 gaming series with 12 gb of ram. followed a few guides on Internet that didn't make much of a difference that included setting the number of cores to 4 and max memory on the msconfig window. this rig came with a 64gb solid state which had the os on it, boot up was about a 1/3 faster and shut down took less than 5 seconds compared to now at about 12. i opted to sell it due to its immensely small size and stuck with the 1tb hdd which i then loaded win7 on myself.
any other tweaks you can recommend to get this rig to boot up quickly and shut down faster? there are tons of apps in the services start up that i really don't know what to do with and dont want to toggle them off, startup only has 5 required things that need to be active when booting up. outside of that, not sure what else i can do or if this is the limits of what win7 + my rigs specs can achieve. 40 second boot up seems slow on my 1tb hdd.
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Mar 19, 2012
Drop down menus and windlows close before I can make a selection. This started after I stayed in a hotel with 1 gb/sec connect speed. The house computers always defaulted to switch user. After I check out I discovered that my lap top did also. I cannot even delete a progam using control panel. The window immediately scrolls to the top each try.
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Jun 23, 2011
I would like to make my PC dual-boot with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit version & Linux Ubuntu. I know about Wubi to install Ubuntu within Windows, But would like more space than the 30gb limit that Wubi uses. How do I create an partition with Windows that can be used for a dual-boot. doctorwhovian11-24144041650249291689021989539000 has chosen the best answer to his/her question. Click here to view the answer that was selected.
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Dec 23, 2011
how to make (and maybe has the time to do it) a windows 7 boot screen of a walking and growling (roaring) bear? i cant find many animation makers that dont require me to draw it. i cannot draw very well at all.
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Mar 19, 2011
is it possible to make a Windows 7 boot disc from scratch? By scratch I mean, I want all the programs I currently have installed on my PC and some items in my secondary drives to be there too, in other words, can I take my current Windows AND the programs/items I have on my drives, and put them together as one installation, so that when I format my computer and reinstall Windows, my basic programs, like Photoshop, After Effects, etc, are still there, so there is no worry about downloading it? That's my main point, I have to install Windows 7 and the programs I have in like 30 computers, it would take forever if I ALSO have to download programs like Photoshop, I don't have the best internet in town anyways.
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