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
    2013-10-28T19:39:27+00:00

    I have the same problem.

    HP Pavilion dv6

    i7-2630QM

    8GB Ram

    SSD Corsair Force 3

    USB3.0

    AMD Radeon HD 7400M Series

    Intel HD Graphics 3000

    Windows 8

    Boot 20 secunds

    Shutdown 10 secunds

    Hibernate Start 50 secunds

    Windows 8.1

    Boot 2 minute

    Shutdown 10 seconds

    Hibernate Start 4 minute

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-28T18:40:17+00:00

    I was doing some checking with msconfig and even disabling everything my shutdown is over 4 minutes.  However, at one point I got into a weird startup where I think some of the Microsoft items did not load.  Had a couple of things I noticed in that configuration.  1 was that the computer would not see any network but would connect to the network.  The other item I had was a warning that said:  "Failed to connect to a network service.  Windows could not connect to system event notification service".

    However, while I was having that problem the shutdown was almost immediate.  To fix the problem went into msconfig and disabled and then enabled everything and everything is back to working - but I am back to the slow shutdown.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-28T09:24:52+00:00

    What will it take to get Microsoft to acknowledge this problem???

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-28T08:41:45+00:00

    Windows 8.1 is obviously not stable yet.  I mean some people seem to be running it no problem, but there are too many people with this same issue.  I'm going back to Win 8 with Start8.  I'll consider updating again in a few months.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-10-28T07:55:05+00:00

    Take it back, unsuccessful as of waiting now for more than 4 minutes to boot. 😞

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