Boot time

I'm a tad concerned about my boot time on my win 7 64 bit m17rx3 (2820 QM - 6970m). Granted I don't have SSD or any fancy raid type config but I still think it's a bit on the slow side. When I first had the machine it took from cold boot to usable desktop about a minute and a half. Nowadays the whole boot to usable desktop (including user login) takes about total 2 to 2 and a half mins. Takes only about 45 seconds to reach the login screen but it's slow after this to load everything and become a usable responsive desktop. My system is admittedly a lot more cluttered than when I first got it and has things like mcafee, alien respawn, etc all in the system tray (plus stacks of games on hard drive). But I still think it's a bit slow. Once loaded in my system is great and runs mega quick. So for those of you running standard 7,200 rpm hard drives - how are your boot times? I may be imagining it but I swear bios a08 seemed to add about 15 - 20 secs to the boot time. I suppose I should be grateful as looking on the net some poor people have to wait as much as five minutes for their systems to settle down!

 

Type msconfig and look at the startup items, sure you can disable some.

Run CCleaner, cleanup/fix registry faults. worked on my dino laptop.

 

Will take a look. How about if I run disk defrag, would that help in anyway? I have used about 320 gig on my 640 gig hard drive

 

You could try but I think its something at startup causing the slow down.

 

My old 5400 HDD would boot in about 2 minutes or less.
SSD boots in 17-20 seconds.

Something appears off from your boot times.

 

My R2 started doing the same thing, it would get to the black screen and pause forever, take about 2 minutes to get to the desktop. I couldn't find the problem so I formatted my ssd and it's booting under 18 seconds again. I couldn't find the cause so who knows. Good luck

 

Yes to msconfig. I bet you have over 50 startup items.

I blame McAfee - garbage program.

 

Upgrade to a SSD and we're talking about 10 seconds boot time. If you still have the second HDD port free, theres no real reason not to go with a SSD.

Till then you just can use sleep mode so you just havent to boot at all. BTW; defragmentation wont be an issue (right now), because you have a lot of space free and your system isnt that old.

 

Download Soluto, it is a great program to improve your boot time
My m11x booted in about 1:45 min. or so. With soluto it boots in 1:11 min or so .
Try it !

 

it is indeed slow with the stock HDD, especially if you have AlienFX and Alienrespawn at startup, it can take upwards of minutes for it to load, which sucks.

you can safely disable Alienfx and Alienrespawn, i can't remember the service name, you'll need to find it around here.

I've actually disabled alot of crap (including alienfx) on start and it was still slower than my g73. I ended up buying an intel SSD and even with that, the alienfx still takes sometime to load(not as slow though).

 

Cheers guys. I will work through all these suggestions. I do have an awful lot of services running at start up (difficult to always tell what ones are safe to disable without some undesirable side effect). I disabled some start up items like Tom Tom software etc. Boot time now just under 2 mins so already seeing benefits! I wish I'd got an SSD at the time I bought the laptop but the costs were so huge on what was already a really expensive system!

 

thats why most of us recommend steering clear of the 2820 which gives you pretty much no benefit and getting the ssd, which does

 

Theres a thread on the main page about how Mcafee is slowing everyones laptop down. I recommend uninstalling it and seeing if it changes anything.

 

Hey guys Im a n00b on here so take it easy on me. I just received my M17xR3 last week as a replacement machine from my XPSM1730. Dell had first sent me a XPS17-702x to replace my system. Not cool but while i had both systems i did a side by side comparison of Boot times using a free software called Soluto. I also made a video which you can check out on my YouTube channel. Search TOE2TOEFITNESS on YouTube and give Soluto a try.