M17x-R2 restart times past 3 minutes.

Why are my restart times so long? I takes 3 minutes to restart a 2500 computer? Anyone know what I can do to reduce these times? I had no programs running in the background except for the essentials IE anti virus alien fx OSD

 

Well first of all you have a normal hard drive. If you switched to an SSD you would divide your restart and start time by at least 50% to 80%.

Then if the restart was due to updates, etc... It could take time to install the updates before the shutdown part of the restart and then updating the registry while starting Win again.

When you can buy an SSD and you won't have that happening again.

 

SSD or Hybrid (much cheaper) drives would speed up your system's boot times.
Also, installing Linux instead of W7

 

my raid 0 seagate 7200RPM drives scored the same HDtune read/wrties as my single 7200RPM 32mb cache desktop HDD. If you have a single laptop hdd it will be slow. Which is why I recommend any sort of raid 0 in the m17x at the minimum if you at all care about HDD access times.

 

Some anti virus programs are horrible at start up and add a huge amount of time to the process. You might want to try removing whatever you are using to get a baseline boot up time.

 

I get under a minute consistently with the stock 250gb hd.

Try a clean instal of windows

 

Your slow start times are probably a result of a corrupted registry. You have two choices, role the dice with a third party registry cleaner, or as suggested reinstall your operating system and build your drivers back up. Or use the factory reinstall settings found on partition. The symptoms of corrupt registry are:

Frequent error messages,
Slow start-ups and shutdowns,
Sluggishness,
Crash,
Freezes,
Declining performance,
System stalls,
Severe degradation in operating speed,
Unstable and frequent application errors and crashes, and,
At times, even an inability to start Windows.

A registry becomes corrupted when you frequently install and uninstall applications including trial downloads. Some programs are never really completely uninstalled leaving hard-to-find traces in your Windows registry. Or you may have embedded spyware, adware or other components (such as DLLs or programmes that revive themselves on every start up. Or you have unused but undeleted drivers within your system. Perhaps it is time to buy a new SSD and reinstall your operating system. I have mixed feelings about registry cleaners. They usually work well but often they remove Dll’s that are essential. Than a month later you open particular software and than find it corrupted. Roxio has known issues with registry cleaners. I am not sure about PowerDvd. Most hard core gamers will reinstall their operating system like clockwork every 6 months to keep system running smoothly.

 

I used to do that with xp, 7 keeps running a bit longer before I reinstall.