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Windows boot times greatly increased after a week of idle time

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Sjaak

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So saturday evening i got back from holiday (i looove snowboarding :p) and when sunday morning i powered up my pcs again (game rig and lappy in sig) it took nearly 3 minutes to load windows :eek:

Bios etc. is normal, windows screen, too, but when i get to the desktop it takes like another two minutes to load the desktop icons and the programs running in the background (steam, netlimiter, VNC server etc).

I dont get it...i just turned my pc off for a week and suddenly it takes an age to boot? wtf?

I checked msconfig but there are no new services or anything, its exactly the same as i left it...tried rebooting a few times but its that slow everytime.

Anyone knows how i can get rid of it? its really annoying.
 
Seems a bit odd - tried a defrag and cleared out temp files?
 
Im running a defrag right now...still it seems weird to me. I mean, it was like a regular reboot, just this time with a week in between...
 
Do you have auto-updates on? A bunch of updates came threw last week. It always seems to take a bit longer to boot after their installed. Just an idea if clearing the prefetch doesn't work.


RideGuy
 
I dont know if its from defrag or what but whenever I leave my comp idle for a few days and then try to use/reboot it, it takes a lot longer. It usually fixes itself after I clear the files and defrag.
 
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