In this guide I will show you how to speed up Windows 8 Boot time, disabling unnecessary applications
Whats need
-Ccleaner latest version
-PC with Windows 8 :fingers-crossed:
Step 1
-run the program RUN.exe and then we write MSCONFIG and Enter
Step 2
-On the program go to the Services and click Hide all Microsoft services, now stopped some services that not need example: AMD, Google update, Hamachi, utility from manufacturer,Skype updater
Step 3
-Now go to Task Manager, go to startup and disable the unnecessary apps example:Utorrent, apps from manufacturer, Skype, Java
Step 4
-Go to Ccleaner, click Tools and go to Startup and disable apps from Windows-unnecessary, IE-all, Contex menu-all,Scheduled Task.all
Step 5
-Restart the PC and after off and on PC
Boot time
My boot time:
Before: 38 seconds
After: 8 seconds
energymix said:
My boot time:
Before: 38 seconds
After: 8 seconds
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I find it rather impossible to believe that your windows 8 pc took a whopping 38 seconds to boot.....I may be wrong but I believe that Windows's new system of hibernating the kernel session drastically reduces the boot time to less than 12 seconds.,,38 seconds and 8 seconds sounds like the difference between a windows 7 and windows 8 boot times rather than 2 windows 8 boot times.
mrappbrain said:
I find it rather impossible to believe that your windows 8 pc took a whopping 38 seconds to boot.....I may be wrong but I believe that Windows's new system of hibernating the kernel session drastically reduces the boot time to less than 12 seconds.,,38 seconds and 8 seconds sounds like the difference between a windows 7 and windows 8 boot times rather than 2 windows 8 boot times.
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I really booted 38-45 seconds because the application is very delayed, but sometimes I booted 8-13 seconds
Yeah... your 38 seconds was a cold boot, your 8 seconds was a hibernation boot. In any case, disabling services and the like doesn't really impact the boot time at all. It may change how long after login before the system becomes responsive, and it can definitely change how much system resources are being used in the background, but the only software ways to reduce the boot time (short of something like hibernation boot) would require removing drivers (as each one of those takes a brief moment to initialize) or using bootloader settings (and most of those are more likely to slow boot times down than speed them up).
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Yeah... your 38 seconds was a cold boot, your 8 seconds was a hibernation boot. In any case, disabling services and the like doesn't really impact the boot time at all. It may change how long after login before the system becomes responsive, and it can definitely change how much system resources are being used in the background, but the only software ways to reduce the boot time (short of something like hibernation boot) would require removing drivers (as each one of those takes a brief moment to initialize) or using bootloader settings (and most of those are more likely to slow boot times down than speed them up).
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Exactly.So the name of the guide should be changed to how to impact login times
well even on hibernation boot I need around 30 seconds (but 10 seconds of that contributes to my old BIOS) lol
My new record: 13 seconds. Cold boot. Doesn't get much better than that
Even a layman would know that disabling startup applications can speed up boot time.
Except they don't... Startup apps don't run until the system is already booted, so by definition they cannot impact boot time. On I/O constrained or single-core systems, they make the system essentially unresponsive for some time after bootup, but for something like the Surface RT (4 cores, Flash storage so very wide IO bandwidth) their impact will be minimal.
Hi guys,
I had a question.. My windows 8 used to boot really fast at the beginning on my PC.. But now its taking time.. Almost as much as windows 7 used to take, even during shutdown.. I've actually disabled hibernation function using tune up utilities.. Would this effect booting speed?
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kishankpadiyar said:
Hi guys,
I had a question.. My windows 8 used to boot really fast at the beginning on my PC.. But now its taking time.. Almost as much as windows 7 used to take, even during shutdown.. I've actually disabled hibernation function using tune up utilities.. Would this effect booting speed?
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How many apps have you installed?
karan128 said:
How many apps have you installed?
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not much.. 2-3 games and few common apps like vlc, firefox n all those.. no apps from stores..
Disabling Hibernation will not speed up your boot time - quite the opposite, in fact (Win8 likes to do a "hibernation shutdown" where it restarts the computer then immediately enters hibernate, which makes the subsequent bootup very fast). It will have no impact at all on restart time, either (at least, nothing meaningful - possibly a few milliseconds at worst). Hibernate shutdown does indeed take longer (substantially so), but why do you care?
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Disabling Hibernation will not speed up your boot time - quite the opposite, in fact (Win8 likes to do a "hibernation shutdown" where it restarts the computer then immediately enters hibernate, which makes the subsequent bootup very fast). It will have no impact at all on restart time, either (at least, nothing meaningful - possibly a few milliseconds at worst). Hibernate shutdown does indeed take longer (substantially so), but why do you care?
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oh okay.. i also wanted to know this.. Sometimes when i keep my system on standby (which i always do), my system wakes up by itself.. then when its not attended for some time it goes to sleep again.. then again in 2 min it repeats.. why is this happening..?
kishankpadiyar said:
oh okay.. i also wanted to know this.. Sometimes when i keep my system on standby (which i always do), my system wakes up by itself.. then when its not attended for some time it goes to sleep again.. then again in 2 min it repeats.. why is this happening..?
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THis may be happening due to scheduled tasks--
Open cmd and execute this code
powercfg /waketimers
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see if any task is scheduled to run while pc is on standby..
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THis may be happening due to scheduled tasks--
Open cmd and execute this code see if any task is scheduled to run while pc is on standby..
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it shows this.. what does it mean..?
PIC: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3d0cm1ohf5f1hl/cmd.png
kishankpadiyar said:
it shows this.. what does it mean..?
PIC: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3d0cm1ohf5f1hl/cmd.png
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Go to "scheduled" task manager and disable that service.(whatever it is, I am not able to see it clearly on my mobile)
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Windows 8 loads up extremely fast! And I dont think disabling startup apps and services is not necessary, i came across this post, see if it helps you
http://www.computingunleashed.com/speed-up-windows-8-pro.html
my acer S3 ultrabook was using a Seagate 350GB and the boot was super crapy.... I removed the hdd and slot in a Kingston hyper X3 SSD...
my boot time is 7second flat from zero to hero..
best windows OS ever..
my windows surface RT is slowing down a bit after I loaded so many app on it...
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Hi all
Today I was playing around with some new music players and it seems my hero can get very laggy when playing back music and doing other tasks at the same time (not always, but especially when the phone is just woken up).
I decided to have a gander at top to check cpu usage and load averages. The cpu usage was hovering only at 10-20% yet the load averages were always at a minimum of ~5.5, which sounds pretty nasty.
I decided to see what they where after the phone had been sleeping a while, so I checked using "uptime" several hours later instantly after bringing it out of sleep. I was shocked to see 164/131/66. These seem completely insane.
So:
Are load averages broken in the kernel, is my phone broken or am I missing something?
I suspect it may have something to do with the way it records uptime (system time awake only)?
21:30:30 up 8:49, load average: 131.45, 185.11, 161.56
would be interesting to know how this works. i'm gonna set up a script that pulls this all day and logs it to a file, just for fun.
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21:30:30 up 8:49, load average: 131.45, 185.11, 161.56
would be interesting to know how this works. i'm gonna set up a script that pulls this all day and logs it to a file, just for fun.
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Current time; how long the system has been running; system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes...
131 is very hi!!
bourdagespl said:
Current time; how long the system has been running; system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes...
131 is very hi!!
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lol sry, i know what the "uptime" command does, just want to know how the load avg thing works on the hero. afaik a load of > 100 would result in an totally unresponsive device. and having the phone idling for several hours should not produce a load avg of 131...
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lol sry, i know what the "uptime" command does, just want to know how the load avg thing works on the hero. afaik a load of > 100 would result in an totally unresponsive device. and having the phone idling for several hours should not produce a load avg of 131...
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Oh Sorry for my misunderstanding!! English isn't my first language,, just want to help!
no problem, this was actually my fault, i should have stated it correctly. i watched the uptime over night, but before that i did a reboot, load avg didn't leave the range of 4 to 6... no real information there i guess, looks like android has f*cked up the load avg "system"...
I can understand a PC takes a while to boot considering how many different devices it has to set up, but... a nook? It is so simple it should take less than a second to boot.
Any one knows where is most of the time spent during boot?
Thanks
bisbal said:
I can understand a PC takes a while to boot considering how many different devices it has to set up, but... a nook? It is so simple it should take less than a second to boot.
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What Linux powered devices do you own that boots a cold, non-hibernated, system in less than a second?
In fact the boot sequence on the NST, or any other Android device for that matter, is more or less the same as on a PC, and the device count ain't that different.
The kernel still have to load storage, input, graphics, networking, usb and whatnot.
Hell, one second isn't even enough to finish the bootloader stage
Considering it is a flavor of Linux, probably running those never ending screens of things being started up. As the nook should be an optimized version, it should really go faster. But an unrooted version goes faster than a rooted one, that was one thing I noticed. Maybe running extra services and start up apps.
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Considering it is a flavor of Linux, probably running those never ending screens of things being started up.
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Well, it's running a Linux kernel and the kernel has to load like any other kernel
There's no console output to fb on boot, and even if there was it wouldn't make a dent in the start-up time.
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As the nook should be an optimized version, it should really go faster.
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Faster than what? A PC with 6 - 36 times the processing power?
In fact, the NST kernel loads faster on its puny 800MHz single-core ARM than the 3.0.0-13 kernel on my quad core 2.6GHz AMD.
What we don't see behind that nice boot animation screen is the system that's being loaded on top of the kernel, namely Android and it's Dalvik virtual machine.
If you go trough the logs you'll see that this is where a large portion of the start-up time is being spent
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But an unrooted version goes faster than a rooted one, that was one thing I noticed. Maybe running extra services and start up apps.
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Well simply rooting the NST enables a single tiny service (adbd) and there's no difference in start-up time booting with the stock ramdisk or the adbd enabled one.
I just tested this for the fun of it, and the start-up times are random variations in the order of milliseconds
Now, like you point out, most rooted devices aren't just rooted but have additional services and apps running, and naturally that increased workload would make the device run a little slower based on the amount of additional stuff, and the quality of it
Nice and complete answer, Roger.
Thanks for taking your time to answer that. Maybe the startup time of an unrooted nook was clearly due to extra overhead apps and services. It is quite noticeable, as I did the restore/reset/update/root/restart after fail several times.
Dalvik is the JVM on the android?
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Dalvik is the JVM on the android?
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That's correct
ros87 said:
What Linux powered devices do you own that boots a cold, non-hibernated, system in less than a second?
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XPUD, boots in 3 seconds and I have a browser ready to use.
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XPUD, boots in 3 seconds and I have a browser ready to use.
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3 seconds from you press the power button on your pc? Care to share a video of that?
My pc uses 10-12 seconds just to get to the bootloader menu..
Now, aside from that, I've already stated that a large part of the ~30s boot time is spent on loading Android, there's not much that can be done about that.
Recently I updated my device but It took 23 minutes to boot (First Boot) !! It was 12:21 AM and It finished booting at 12:44 AM !! Is it normal or there's something wrong ??
I suggest full wipe ...
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It's normal, it's rebuilding the Davlik cache. The more content and apps you have installed, the longer it will take.
It's a once only thing (at least until the OS changes, and then it may rebuild it again)
Yeah it's normal it happened to me the first time i put revolver on. Trust me I was freaking out
That's why it is recommended to always have full charge or AC adapter connected. Writing flash uses battery.
Thanks for sharing. I would've force rebooted it. Now I now I shouldn't!
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this is my most hated thing about the EeePad - even if it's not the first boot, it takes ages. I hope CM9 and/or the ICS update fixes it.
unfnknblvbl said:
this is my most hated thing about the EeePad - even if it's not the first boot, it takes ages. I hope CM9 and/or the ICS update fixes it.
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It's an Android thing, and unlikely to change. It's compiling and optimizing apps so they launch quicker. Without it, things will be very pedestrian.
unfnknblvbl said:
this is my most hated thing about the EeePad - even if it's not the first boot, it takes ages. I hope CM9 and/or the ICS update fixes it.
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Still much faster than a simple? itunes update.
CrazyPeter said:
It's an Android thing, and unlikely to change. It's compiling and optimizing apps so they launch quicker. Without it, things will be very pedestrian.
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Yeah, but it does it on every reboot. My eeePad takes about 5 minutes to boot even if it's not the first boot. We used to have this problem back in the days of Android 1.x, but the CM team managed to find a workaround for CM7. Some manufacturers have included a similar workaround (HTC's 'quick boot' function on the Sensation comes to mind), but obviously not Asus. Hence my hope that CM9 and/or the Asus 4.0 update fix things
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Yeah, but it does it on every reboot. My eeePad takes about 5 minutes to boot even if it's not the first boot. We used to have this problem back in the days of Android 1.x, but the CM team managed to find a workaround for CM7. Some manufacturers have included a similar workaround (HTC's 'quick boot' function on the Sensation comes to mind), but obviously not Asus. Hence my hope that CM9 and/or the Asus 4.0 update fix things
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Then something is not right.
After a ROM install, mine takes about 10 minutes or so to boot, but it's once only. After than, it's int he region of 10 - 15 seconds from a cold boot to a working desktop.
CrazyPeter said:
Then something is not right.
After a ROM install, mine takes about 10 minutes or so to boot, but it's once only. After than, it's int he region of 10 - 15 seconds from a cold boot to a working desktop.
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10 - 15 seconds, I'd love to see that, I get about 1 - 2 minutes average boot time rooted running revolver.
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mine takes about 20 seconds to boot from off to desktop
I use Android Revolution HD 2.3.0
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10 - 15 seconds, I'd love to see that, I get about 1 - 2 minutes average boot time rooted running revolver.
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Mine is stock but rooted.
And it's 20 seconds at the most from off to desktop.
To the person that said its an android thing- completely false. Zip aligned, number of apps etc. All factor. My transformer (rooted with latest revolver) boots within minutes if not seconds. After installing my backup of 100+ apps is when I get over 8 minutes.
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My Average boot time is 10 minutes....
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10 - 15 seconds, I'd love to see that, I get about 1 - 2 minutes average boot time rooted running revolver.
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I do not believe anybody's TF101 tablet starts up in 10-15 seconds. It's not even close to being ready to start at that point on stock, unrooted Honeycomb 3.2 firmware. Just tested my own tablet, which is close to as lightly-loaded on startup as you can get:
Slightly less than one second from the backlight turning on to the Asus logo appearing
Nine seconds from the backlight turning on to the "loading" circle animation appearing
77 seconds from the backlight turning on to the desktop appearing
90 seconds from the backlight turning on to my desktop widget being started up (ie. battery indication appears)
My desktop uses ADWLauncher EX, and has only one screen, one widget (TF battery widget), and the stock Asus (non-live) wallpaper. There is literally nothing else on the desktop, not even a single app icon.
My tablet has the following running at startup (bold are non-stock items):
* Lookout (2 processes, 1 service)
* Facebook (1 process, 1 service)
* TF battery widget (1 process, 1 service)
* com.asus.keyboard (1 process, 1 service)
* DMClient (1 process, 1 service)
* Google Services (1 process, 3 services)
* Maps (1 process, 1 service)
* MyNet (1 process, 2 services)
* Android keyboard (1 process, 1 service)
To those claiming their tablet boots in twenty seconds on stock firmware, I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. Post a video if you want to change my mind. My tablet couldn't start in twenty seconds (or even anything close to it), stock and straight out of the box without a single application installed.
Mine takes about 1 min on rooted stock 8.6.6.19
I *think* it is now longer than before, probably due to the amount of apps and widgets installed compared to before (although I try to keep as least as possible)
I have video to prove it, but I think it's a pretty normal time.
Will wipe and try revolver soon though!
Edit: it's a B70 SBK2
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I do not believe anybody's TF101 tablet starts up in 10-15 seconds. It's not even close to being ready to start at that point on stock, unrooted Honeycomb 3.2 firmware. Just tested my own tablet, which is close to as lightly-loaded on startup as you can get:
Slightly less than one second from the backlight turning on to the Asus logo appearing
Nine seconds from the backlight turning on to the "loading" circle animation appearing
77 seconds from the backlight turning on to the desktop appearing
90 seconds from the backlight turning on to my desktop widget being started up (ie. battery indication appears)
My desktop uses ADWLauncher EX, and has only one screen, one widget (TF battery widget), and the stock Asus (non-live) wallpaper. There is literally nothing else on the desktop, not even a single app icon.
My tablet has the following running at startup (bold are non-stock items):
* Lookout (2 processes, 1 service)
* Facebook (1 process, 1 service)
* TF battery widget (1 process, 1 service)
* com.asus.keyboard (1 process, 1 service)
* DMClient (1 process, 1 service)
* Google Services (1 process, 3 services)
* Maps (1 process, 1 service)
* MyNet (1 process, 2 services)
* Android keyboard (1 process, 1 service)
To those claiming their tablet boots in twenty seconds on stock firmware, I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. Post a video if you want to change my mind. My tablet couldn't start in twenty seconds (or even anything close to it), stock and straight out of the box without a single application installed.
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Yeah, agree with you, mine takes about 1 min to show the desktop from cold boot and even from start with stock and no apps it took about this time.
fliparsenal said:
To the person that said its an android thing- completely false. Zip aligned, number of apps etc. All factor. My transformer (rooted with latest revolver) boots within minutes if not seconds. After installing my backup of 100+ apps is when I get over 8 minutes.
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so 3:30 - 4:00 minutes boot time with 200+ user apps is normal?
Strange little problem I’ve got here. I’m using the brilliant Asus UX31E ultrabook which is a 1.8ghz i7.
Didn’t have any problems running windows 7, but just installed a fresh windows 8 last week.
I’ve installed all the updates I could find from the ASUS website but here’s the problem, with windows 7 the fans would only ever come on if you were really pushing it playing a game. Using windows 8 the fans will regularly come on just browsing in chrome.
when you open task manager the computer details recognise that it’s only a 1.8 processer yet it often is being utilized as high as 2.8ghz! This is making the machine overheat, turn on the fans and sometimes have to turn itself off.
I’ve been into power settings and reduced the maximum power usage to 70% and that usually does the job, but then it quickly forgets this setting and restores it to 100% (2.7GHZ!). In task manager the highest task utilisation wise is ‘system’ but no idea exactly what it’s doing..
Is there anything I can do to have greater control over the processor speed or investigate what might be causing the problem?
Asus had some power control software for windows 7 but don’t seem to offer it for windows 8.
Cheers guys
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Strange little problem I’ve got here. I’m using the brilliant Asus UX31E ultrabook which is a 1.8ghz i7.
Didn’t have any problems running windows 7, but just installed a fresh windows 8 last week.
I’ve installed all the updates I could find from the ASUS website but here’s the problem, with windows 7 the fans would only ever come on if you were really pushing it playing a game. Using windows 8 the fans will regularly come on just browsing in chrome.
when you open task manager the computer details recognise that it’s only a 1.8 processer yet it often is being utilized as high as 2.8ghz! This is making the machine overheat, turn on the fans and sometimes have to turn itself off.
I’ve been into power settings and reduced the maximum power usage to 70% and that usually does the job, but then it quickly forgets this setting and restores it to 100% (2.7GHZ!). In task manager the highest task utilisation wise is ‘system’ but no idea exactly what it’s doing..
Is there anything I can do to have greater control over the processor speed or investigate what might be causing the problem?
Asus had some power control software for windows 7 but don’t seem to offer it for windows 8.
Cheers guys
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Have you done a upgrade or clean installation from windows 8
if you had done a upgrade please do a clean installation of windows 8
if not then go to the advance power settings in the control panel and set processor cooling state to active
shreshth89 said:
Have you done a upgrade or clean installation from windows 8
if you had done a upgrade please do a clean installation of windows 8
if not then go to the advance power settings in the control panel and set processor cooling state to active
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I was wondering if it was a true clean install or upgrade. I read he installed a fresh copy nut wasn't sure if that was meaning clean (wiped the drive) or what. I didn't really notice.alot of heat issues with my last laptop I upgraded; I chose to keep personal files and settings. I do have about 180gb of pictures and movies which were scattered in multiple locations on win7. Now my media is very orderly, as well as my 20gb of music.
Saying all that, I believe when I installed the media center that it cleaned up my files, or it may have just been windows 8, but either way it took some work on wimdows8 to organize my hard drive much better than before. I have scanned my hd for the need to defrag it, but it shows to be dang near perfect. If you have alot of media on your machine I wonder if its doing file management, which is making it run hot, etc. I know phones are different but when I load a new ROM it takes it several hours to slow down the media system usage.
How many days have you been running the system with wimdows8 ? Do you have a lot of Files/media on your machine ?
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The majority of the time, the issue isn't with the Operating System as much as it is with a single application. Check task manager while your computer is running and see what applications are causing the processor to go nuts. If it is indeed a system application, then I would suggest doing a complete wipe and fresh install of Windows 8. You can back up your authentication key by saving a specific folder in the File Browser. Do a search on MyDigitalLife for that information.
Doing a quick search on your Processor, it runs standard at 1.8 ghz, and the 2.9 jump is completely normal. It's a feature called "Turbo Speed". With Windows 8 came upgraded drivers, which probably enabled this feature that you've never noticed.
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I was wondering if it was a true clean install or upgrade. I read he installed a fresh copy nut wasn't sure if that was meaning clean (wiped the drive) or what. I didn't really notice.alot of heat issues with my last laptop I upgraded; I chose to keep personal files and settings. I do have about 180gb of pictures and movies which were scattered in multiple locations on win7. Now my media is very orderly, as well as my 20gb of music.
Saying all that, I believe when I installed the media center that it cleaned up my files, or it may have just been windows 8, but either way it took some work on wimdows8 to organize my hard drive much better than before. I have scanned my hd for the need to defrag it, but it shows to be dang near perfect. If you have alot of media on your machine I wonder if its doing file management, which is making it run hot, etc. I know phones are different but when I load a new ROM it takes it several hours to slow down the media system usage.
How many days have you been running the system with wimdows8 ? Do you have a lot of Files/media on your machine ?
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yes it is true
whoever each and every application running sometimes FC itself or crashes while operation which leaves a unmarked thread or loos end of the application (which also termed as viruses when they start further spreading the system)
in system which were already troubling you creates a problem due to upgrade
Hi, my Thinkpad X230 Tablet boots win 8 in just 6 seconds!
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My computer is running UEFI "BIOS" and it has a Crucial mSATA SSD.
A) No, it doesn't. Read up on hibernation boot.
B) This has been discussed before...
Don't get me wrong, it's cool (if you don't mind blowing a ton of disk space for a hiberfile, which is becoming a problem on machines with tons of RAM and tiny SSDs). It doesn't improve reboot time at all though, and I almost never just "turn off" my computer. Why would I? You know what's a heck of a lot faster than a 6-second boot? Instant-on resume from sleep.
HTCalltheway said:
Hi, my Thinkpad X230 Tablet boots win 8 in just 6 seconds!
see it in action: youtube
My computer is running UEFI "BIOS" and it has a Crucial mSATA SSD.
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It is literally 3-4 seconds on my Toshiba U925.
Oh, and for the record, the full reboot time on my Win8 Enterprise desktop (which has a SSD but no hibernation support because 32 GB of hiberfile would be too much of the SSD) is a little over 20 seconds. Still excellent, and a noticeable chunk of that is due to the computer's old-ish BIOS.
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Oh, and for the record, the full reboot time on my Win8 Enterprise desktop (which has a SSD but no hibernation support because 32 GB of hiberfile would be too much of the SSD) is a little over 20 seconds. Still excellent, and a noticeable chunk of that is due to the computer's old-ish BIOS.
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I haven't checked the full boot time when the hibernation support isn't invoked. The screen comes up in around 10 - 15 seconds, and I can log on immediately afterwards, but I've noticed that it isn't really fully up for many more seconds - it appears to be continuing to load various subsystems for up to a minute.
Yeah, all OSes do that. XP and before were awful about it, especially on single-core machines; they tried to load everything at the same time and performance went to crap as a result for a while after login. Vista and later introduced a way to launch services with a delayed start, which improves responsiveness during this period dramatically. I'm not sure what Linux or OS X do, but I've seen the same kind of delay on them too.
Multi-core, high-RAM, and SSD-equipped machines have reduced the impact of this to almost negligible levels, although even on my 8-core, 32-gig, SSD-based beast of desktop, the initial login does still take a few seconds longer before being usable than subsequent ones.