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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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I have a "new" HP Envy and the startup is fine but the shutdown takes about 4 minutes. Have run also run ccleaner and superantispyware and the shutdown was fine for one time but then went back to the 4 minute shutdown. Also tried reinstalling a couple of the programs to see if that helped. Nothing.
HP Envy Touchsmart. Same symptoms. May be network related, because I did get a fast shutdown once, when there was no network attached in that particular session.... Will test and report.
See this:
http://keyliner.blogspot.com.br/2014/01/windows-81-slow-to-shutdown-and-restart.html
Steps 1 and 2 solved to me.
I fixed my issue by setting my extra hard drives (4 total) to inactive status. I had all my drives set as "active" in disk management. The only drive you want "active" is the hard drive you boot from.
My boot times went from 4-5 minutes to less than 30 seconds! Follow these directions from Microsoft:
Hi,
I Have the same issue like others have. Upgraded from win8 to 8.1.
to bootup and get start all the service it takes minimum 5 mins.
Hard disk usage is 100% on start up. After 10-20 of time Hard disk usages comes down. then it becomes normal speed.
So, i have to wait 25 mins to use my system completely.
System Config:
i5 3.1GH, HDD 500GB, RAM 4G, Graphics Card : Intel HD 2GB, NVIDIA 2GB.
I increased virtual memory as well.
Still it is very slow.
I see lot of people are reported this issue. But none of the microsoft developers taking responsibility.
windows 8.1 upgrade size is 3.6GB, i don't see any improvement from 8 to 8.1 because of slowness.
you people are sleeping?
after upgrading to 8.1, i updated around 150MB of data through windows update. is that waste to update, since nothing is fixed?
Regards,
Vikram
I fixed my problem as did others that followed the suggestions in this thread. Have you read the complete thread and followed any of the submitted suggestions? Waiting for MS is a waste of time.
Hi,
I Have the same issue like others have. Upgraded from win8 to 8.1.
to bootup and get start all the service it takes minimum 5 mins.
Hard disk usage is 100% on start up. After 10-20 of time Hard disk usages comes down. then it becomes normal speed.
So, i have to wait 25 mins to use my system completely.
System Config:
i5 3.1GH, HDD 500GB, RAM 4G, Graphics Card : Intel HD 2GB, NVIDIA 2GB.
I increased virtual memory as well.
Still it is very slow.
I see lot of people are reported this issue. But none of the microsoft developers taking responsibility.
windows 8.1 upgrade size is 3.6GB, i don't see any improvement from 8 to 8.1 because of slowness.
you people are sleeping?
after upgrading to 8.1, i updated around 150MB of data through windows update. is that waste to update, since nothing is fixed?
Regards,
Vikram
