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
    2014-02-03T00:32:43+00:00

    Try cleaning out your cookies, cache, temporary system files, prefetch, bad registries & temporary internet files with CCleaner or Anvi System Cloud Booster. Maybe that will help. If it doesn't, have you changed the number of processors in msconfig? If you changed from 1 to e.g. 8, then your computer will slow down & instead it will use 256MB of RAM instead of what you have in your computer. One more thing, try scanning for viruses with Windows Defender, or Anvi Smart Defender. I hope this helps you.

    • MrXtreme

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-02T20:17:25+00:00

    For other people, to find the driver who's making the conflict, try to do an "energy report".

    Follow this tuto

    http://www.wikihow.com/Run-an-Energy-Report-on-Windows-7

    (this tutorial is for windows 7 but works in windows 8)

    (to open the "energy report", find it in the "windows system 32 folder" and  paste it on your desktop, or you won't be able to open it)

    Normally it will say that you have trouble with some driver

    (For exemple, he told me that it was the bluetooth stuff who was in conflict)

    Then uninstall and re-install with the latest driver of your products who's making conflict.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-02T20:01:48+00:00

    Youhou!! Thanks a lot!! 

    Same problem than you with the same computer and after trying thousand of solutions that i found in many forum, finally this one works!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-31T15:27:39+00:00

    I recently bought an Asus N550JV, and I was also experiencing slow shutdown and reboot times after upgrading to Windows 8.1.

    I fixed the problem by uninstalling "Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth Suite (64)" and reinstalling the latest version "8.0.1.305", which I downloaded from Asus' website.

    Clearly there was a problem with the old driver or software running on Windows 8.1, causing the system to hang while it closed down.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-27T17:27:49+00:00

    I also have new HP laptop and upgraded to 8.1 from store but it takes too much time to start up and shutdown even I don't have installed more apps. This is very irritating and disappointing please solve this problem Microsoft.

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