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Is my hard drive dying? [Solved]
Boggin:
As you have restored it, it will have undone any cleanout that AdwCleaner has done and may have reinstated the Startup items you have unchecked, so you will need to check in msconfig again.
Run AdwCleaner again and then run JRT http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/
Let us know if there's any improvement.
jmk909er:
Thanks boggin I already re-did all of the previous steps and also have created a good restore point.
I also just ran the junkware removal tool and have attached the log file from it. (I don't think it found much)
I just shutdown and started 4 times and timed it. It is taking just under 2 minutes to go from pushing the start-up button to get to the sign in screen with 68 seconds of just a black screen.
Yesterday I went to bleeping computers.com and ran their utility "autoruns" to try to get rid of some of my start-up items. I ran the program but didn't really know what to do with it so I posted in their forum to ask about it. I was warned by a few in the forum that this was for advanced users and be careful or I could really screw something up so I chose to just leave it alone.
If you want to see my post it is here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/568381/how-to-use-autoruns/
P.S. I appreciate all your help and I feel like I am taking up too much of your time. We can stop anytime but if you want to keep sending me suggestions I will keep going. I am learning a lot from this. Thanks.
Boggin:
My Win 7 x64 HP laptop takes a minute to 1 min 5secs to boot up and on a bad day - 1min 15secs so something is still slowing yours down.
Have you checked Device Manager/View/Show hidden devices to see if any more yellow alerts have popped up ?
What does Check for Performace issues report now ?
StartUpLite is an old program and hasn't been updated for some time but may still pick up on something https://www.malwarebytes.org/startuplite/
jmk909er:
Good news Boggin :cheesy: I just booted up in 58 seconds!
There are no yellow alerts in device manager.
I ran "Check for Performance" and I do see a couple of things that may be suspicious I made a video to show you.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/quvbkqcohkdk4lh/Check%20for%20performance%20issues%202-27-15.mp4?dl=0
I ran "StartUpLite" and it suggested that I disable Quicktime from the start-up. I suspect that this is what is taking so long.
From pushing the start-up button to get to the sign in screen was 58 seconds and I only had 6 seconds of black screen
Boggin:
That's great news - sounds like you've cracked it :smiley:
If you go Start - All programs - Toshiba and/or Utilities you will see a number of those Toshiba items.
Toshiba Tempro can be booted up and set to disabled, but you won't receive any update messages although you can boot it up and enable it now and again to see if there are any - mine once alerted me to a BIOS update but Toshiba seems to have a short end of life for their products.
The Service Station - clicking on Decline will give a confirmation that it will be disabled - never really knew what that one is for but I have Toshiba Reel Time unchecked in mine.
Given the boot up time you now have, those Toshiba startup services aren't having any adverse effect given that a bare bones Win 7 is supposed to boot up in 47 seconds.
The quickest mine has ever booted up in was 53 seconds - don't know what's happened to it since :smiley:
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