Dan
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My computer has ecently decided to take an age to boot up.
Im pretty safe to follow info and do things on a computer, i know what im doing, and what not to do etc.
But i have no idea how to find whats causing it. A quick google gave me a way to view the event log for bootup, but tbh, its not really showing much, other than critical errors of 148000ms boot times etc. There is loads of warnings, but nothing which is happening everytime or regularly.
What are the best steps to finding the error?
Cheers!
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Russ
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run > msconfig
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noshua
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Which part is it getting "stuck" on?
All USB items removed?
[Edited on 06-08-2012 by noshua]
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Dan
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yea all removed. usually hangs on the blue screen after clicking user. doesnt matter which user.
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pow
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HUGE user profile. Right click on computer, advanced, user profiles. Post the size of a couple of them
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Gary
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Definalty check msconfig. Most times I take a look at somesones pc for being slow it a load of shit being started
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pow
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Adobe updater, google helper, apple updater, bing! toolbar, install shield updater, etc. etc.
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Dan
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Ive took off the crap on the startup, deleted loads of unused programs.
Boot time down to 95000ms this time.
I notice i have about 25 microsoft visual c++ programs withing the remove programs application. What are all these?? Can i remove them :/
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Dan
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quote: Originally posted by pow
HUGE user profile. Right click on computer, advanced, user profiles. Post the size of a couple of them
No advanced option if i right click computer?
If i go c:/user and right click, properties on my main account, its 248gb? The other is 25mb :/
I also have one called postgres? techtool and techtool-homePC? Tech tool is a peice of software i had a while back, but no long have, i think that may also be where all the visual c++ things come from.
Can i just delete them users?
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pow
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That'll be your problem I should think.
Try creating a new user account and see if that's quick(er) to get into.
Don't just delete C:\Users\blah
Right click Computer > Properties > Advanced system settings
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Dan
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over 200gb of it is downloaded films/music etc within that user?
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Dan
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what about the microsoft visual c++ programs? can i remove them
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Dan
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hmm google says leave them alone, too small to worry about and may effect running of programs etc
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pow
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48gb of appdata still to account for though...
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Dom
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Grab CCLeaner, run it as well as the registry cleaner and see where that gets you. As pow mentioned, it's likely to be the profile that's causing the issues.
It's also worth moving your media to another directory outside of C:\Users or to another drive entirely if you can.
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Dan
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Now analysing with cc cleaner, and have downloaded malware bytes to try, not done that for months.
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Dan
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21gb of files cleaned, and 664 registry errors fixed :/
Running malaware now, see what happens
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Dan
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Still the same.
Even a new login name is as slow. :/
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Tom G
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Porn.
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andy_mk3
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A 'huge' user folder wont make a shit of difference to boot times. I have well over 1tb of stuff and it boots very quickly.
Can you take a screenshot of your startup list in msconfig or ccleaner?
Also what are the specs of said computer?
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