Windows 7 Service Pack 1 made my computer slow down

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Yesterday I was dumb enough to install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 in my HP dv6-1253cl laptop and now all programs in my laptop take longer to start up, compared to the day before yesterday. I've installed no additional software or hardware in the meantime. The only difference is the Service Pack. My main program, Call of Duty World at War now takes FIVE times as long to start and also between screens. Response is now also lagging and all programs now freeze for about 30 to 45 seconds before they respond again.

I've tried uninstalling the Service Pack 1, but inexplicably there remain a ton of updates that weren't removed.

Doesn't Microsoft check the quality of the patches they release? What can i do now to regain the performance i had only two days ago?

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Hi daffy688's,

Windows 7 Service pack and other Windows Updates are released to improve the performance, reliability and security of the system, there could be several causes why you are experiencing performance issue on your computer.

I would like to clarify if you have uninstalled or removed Service Pack 1 from your computer.

You may try the following steps:

Method 1: Run the performance troubleshooter and then check

Open the Performance troubleshooter

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-the-Performance-troubleshooter

**Method 2:**If a Windows Resource Protection (WRP) file is missing or is corrupted, Windows may not behave as expected.Run System File Checker (SFC) scan to fix any corrupt system files. To do this, follow the steps mentioned in the link below:

How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

Method 3: Put the computer in clean boot and then check to see if the issue persists

Follow Step 1 in the link below,

**How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7**

If everything works fine after a clean boot, you can infer that some third party services are causing the problem.

Proceed with the remaining steps to pin-point out the third party service.

After you figure out the problem causing program, you may have to update or install a higher version of the program, if you seldom use that software you can consider uninstalling it.

Important: - Remember to put the computer back to normal startup follow step 7 in the link.

Thanks and Regards:

Ajay K

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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Hi   daffy688's,

Windows 7 Service pack and other Windows Updates are released to improve the performance, reliability and security of the system, there could be several causes why you are experiencing performance issue on your computer.

I would like to clarify if you have uninstalled or removed Service Pack 1 from your computer.

You may try the following steps:

Method 1: Run the performance troubleshooter and then check

Open the Performance troubleshooter

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-the-Performance-troubleshooter

**Method 2:**If a Windows Resource Protection (WRP) file is missing or is corrupted, Windows may not behave as expected.Run System File Checker (SFC) scan to fix any corrupt system files. To do this, follow the steps mentioned in the link below:

How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

Method 3:   Put the computer in clean boot and then check to see if the issue persists

Follow  Step 1 in the link below,

**How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7**

If everything works fine after a clean boot, you can infer that some third party services are causing the problem.

Proceed with the remaining steps to pin-point out the third party service.

After you figure out the problem causing program, you may have to update or install a higher version of the program, if you seldom use that software you can consider uninstalling it.

Important: - Remember to put the computer back to normal startup follow   step 7 in the link.

Thanks and Regards:

Ajay K

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

***************************************************************************

Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

I too had the same problem. Quad Core Desktop, 4 gig Ram, 500 gig HD 2/3 empty...I defrag 2 x a week and run AV and don't go on any websites or have torrent or any of that stuff. My machine is clean for business only.

My machine was running pretty fast until I installed SP1 for Windows 7, 64 Bit last weekend (FEb 25, 2011).

Now it is SLOW booting, it takes 2-3 minutes, and programs are extremely slow to respond.

Can you make any suggestions outside of reimaging my entire system that would clean this up?

I don't want to have to get on phone support for MS Office Small Business and argue that I am reimaging my system and they should let me reinstall my 1 license. I had to put up with this recently...and I was very upset.

Best Regards,

ScottKG.

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2012-11-19T19:42:20+00:00

Problem seems to be resolved thanks to MikeF12 on the previous page - Mike suggested turning off autotuning and this completely resolved the issue for me. Thanks Mike.

best regards,

GDB
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2012-11-19T19:01:45+00:00

I'm also having issues directly related to the SP1 install. I tested access to my Oracle data base from my PC using ODBC. I ran the same tests before and after the SP1 install. Short queries take about 300% longer to run. More complex queries took about 500% longer to run. I found this same issue identified by someone using SQLServer and the MS solution was to update the SQLServer client on their PC. Do you have a solution for people running queries against Oracle? In my case the server and client are Ora10g.

How can you say that MS patches are intended to improve performance when the SP1 patch has made such an obvious negative impact to performance. The SP1 negative performance is unsatisfactory.

best regards,

GDB
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2012-11-17T06:50:44+00:00

November 7th 2012, is when my brand-new ASUS, Core-i5 quad-CPU with 4GB RAM and an SSD drive laptop start asking me to update to SP1. Window Update would try installing the update, fails, then back-out. Lather, rinse, repeat. I didn't succeed installing then, so I wipe the drive, repartition, and reinstall a brand-new Windows7-Home Premium copy on it. Today, I said to myself: I'm going to update to SP1 if it kills me. I spent an afternoon Googling and trying different suggestions. Microsoft Update keep trying to install the package, fails, then revert. The error was an "ERROR_NOT_FOUND x80070490" problem which *no* Microsoft engineers and/or tech-support on these forums have adequately answered. Finally, after half a day digging on the Internet, I found a solution posted by a non-Microsoftie, work thru some obscure fix, and ta-da, I got SP1 installed. Then my memory usage, which was about 25% before, shoot up to 100% and the whole laptop crawls. Thank you, Microsoft; for rewarding my hard-work with a pile of stinking ****. It's like the scene in The Shawshank Redemption, except instead of the guy crawling thru sewage to freedom, I guess I've just crawled the other way and found myself in prison. Don't you guys have data-center full of machines to compile and test each releases? Is it too hard to include a memory profiler in the the suite? I search and found this question posted in February, two-thousand-fricking-eleven, year-of-our-lord, and today is November 2012; yet your tech-support still only offer scripted answers? BTW, I did all of those, and it didn't help. So, if you will excuse me, I'll be reverting back to pre-SP1, biting fingernails all the way. Then I'll take Windows Update out to a dark alley and shoot it full of holes. You know, I'm not mad. I'm a software-engineer myself. Software is hard, but I thought you guys are really really good. Now, I'm just disappointed.
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