Windows 8.1 Pro x64 UEFI very slow boot and shutdown

Anonymous
2013-10-19T09:35:27+00:00

Ever since I upgraded to Windows 8.1 via the in-store update my PC takes a good 3-4 minutes to boot!!! I am on a GA-X79-UD3 + i7-3820 + Samsung SSD 840 for system drive. I have updated all my drivers to Windows 8.1 compatible ones and still. I have checked via Samsung Magician and the drive is using AHCI mode on (Intel PCH) Sata 3 6Gb/s.  I have tried restoring my UEFI to default settings and enabling Fast Boot but still?? On Windows 8 it would boot in 5 seconds....

EDIT: Have tried Safe Boot and Clean Boot, still same

EDIT2: Will any Microsoft guy chime in?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-10-25T07:05:00+00:00

    Spoke too soon.   Back to the slow shutdown.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-25T00:59:45+00:00

    As I previously said, I have not had a slow start up, just a very slow shut down.  Today I spent some time deleting and reinstalling some of the software.  I think reinstalling Itunes may help.  I have gone through a few restarts and my system now seems to shut down normally (i.e. less than a minute or so vs the 4 minutes it was taking yesterday). 

    I hope it holds and that is what the problem was.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-24T20:22:41+00:00

    I too am experiencing slow boot/shutdown processes on my work machine since the upgrade. Intel Xeon 3.07 GHz, 10gb of RAM. Startup and shutdowns are both in excess of 3 minutes. Mot sure the cause, but there is also constant disk activity during both.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-23T01:55:23+00:00

    Same problem here. Bootup is very slow. On Windows 8 it took 5 seconds to start the system, now I must wait over 2 minutes. Have a Toshiba notebook, i7, 16gb ram, win 8.1 pro, 128gb ssd + 1000g hdd, bitlocker encrypted.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-10-23T00:13:32+00:00

    Noticed the exact same issue here on 2 systems upgraded from Windows 8.0 Pro to 8.1. One has the ASUS P8Z68-V_LX with 8GB ram, etc. and another GIGABTE GA-X79-UD3  configured similar to original post. Used to take only 10 seconds to get to a login screen. Now takes about a minute. Not bad.... but definitely not as quick as it was before.

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