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slow startup on windows 8

Petesilver

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Posted January 20, 2013 at 2:54PM

can anyone advise me why it takes so long for W8 to boot up. I have just upgraded my laptop from W7 everything seems to be working fine except boot uo takes so long. My laptop is a HP compaq nx6125 2gb memory, 50gb HDD,(with 30 free)processor is AMD turion 64. Apart from this all went very well. Regards

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aquatarkus

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Posted January 20, 2013 at 4:43PM

Is the slow start up the 1st time you have booted to Win8 since the upgrade or is it just slow to boot since the upgrade every time you start.

Not a fan of upgrading my self always prefer a clean install, I know it means that all your programs etc. will have to be reinstalled but its much less problematic than an upgrade.

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Aquatarkus

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Jock1e

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Posted January 20, 2013 at 5:47PM

Taking files and folders with you can cause the computer to run slow at start up.

Hard drive is a bit small and if you have taken files and folders with you there cant be that much room left.

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Jock1e

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Posted January 20, 2013 at 5:49PM

Have a check in device manager for Yellow exclamation marks.

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Petesilver

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Posted January 20, 2013 at 6:26PM

perhaps I was expecting something better than before but it is almost the same as W7 I just timed this boot up and it took 3 minutes so I suppose its not that bad. The hard drive is a 60gb with over 3ogb free and I do install very much on this laptop so its unlikely I will be using much more, Thank you for all your comments much appreciated

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