What's your Win7 startup time?

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Weird. Not to ignore the question, but it takes my system about 45 seconds to fully reboot.

You may need a faster system drive.

HDTune puts me at an average of 80MB/s. I don't know if that's slow or not, though. I was thinking about going RAID 0 sometime...

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1-4 I do on an almost daily basis. CCleaner + Auslogics disk defrag.

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How long have you had Windows 7 now? And when you say it's sluggish, what are you comparing it to?

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Ouch. Realize that raiding a drive that you already think is slow will yield a faster (in terms of read speed), but still inherently slow drive. What Random Access time are you getting for in HDTune? Raiding them will not fix that and if it's bad, I wouldn't reccomend raid at all.

This basically exactly what TwoCables said, but are you comparing it to a fresh install?

My start up time from power button to fully functional Aero desktop (auto-login, too) using Windows 7 RTM Professional x64 is ~35 seconds. Specs are in my sig. I'm sure I can decrease it if I hacked the registry a bit.

I recommend you take a look at: http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
Very helpful information when it comes to speeding up your Windows. The regular version is free, but it is really all you need.

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Had it for about a month now, but I ran the RC for a while. I'm comparing it to XP, as almost everyone seems to get faster boot times with it.

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I prefer to spend far less time using these pages on Black Viper's website:

• Windows 7 Service Configurations
• Windows 7 Super Tweaks
• Windows 7 Strange Service and Process Information

I also use other methods of streamlining my installation as much as possible. For example, I try to avoid having anything unnecessary in these 3 registry keys:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microso ft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\ CurrentVersion\\Run
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\C urrentVersion\\Run

I also keep the Startup folder in the Start Menu empty if possible. I mean, I'm just guessing that not everyone can keep it empty like I can for no 2 people use the same software environment.

Finally, I recommend Googling anything you are curious about in the running processes in Task Manager as well as the names of the entries in those 3 registry keys.

Using all of the above "techniques", if you will, I have 28 processes running when Task Manager is the only thing open.

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Wait a minute.... What Windows settings are you using that you can think of? You said you have 28 processes running and I assume you are using the 64GB SSD in your sig? I'm running at 35~ processes with anti-virus, mouse/keyboard software, Rivatuner, audio software on startup.... I just wondering why, specially how, your sig system (which appears to be significantly better over my system) boots up slower than mine.
Maybe it's a Microsoft thing...it usually is for the bizarre stuff with computers

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This: http://www.overclock.net/windows/622...ml#post7829880 (it's 2 posts above).

I am obsessed with streamlining my system so that there is nothing unnecessary running on it or installed on it.

Yes I saw that. I'm wondering why your start up is slower than mine when you've taken the time to tweak your Windows more and have a SSD. It puzzles me...

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What? I said that it takes about 45 seconds for a complete reboot. That's why I started it off with "not to ignore the question, but..."

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Coming from 3x640 black to what I have now, it is not a ripoff.

Well at least not to me.

And around 40 seconds or so.

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For a total reboot, or from the moment you press the power button?

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Ok, then the term I should use is "Windows Restart". This is less confusing indeed. However, some might interpret this as only restarting Windows and not rebooting the computer.

To me, a "reboot" always means restarting from within Windows.