L502x Windows 7 boot time

[xpsfing]

Greetings all,
I have a Dell XPS 15 L502x, purchased 9 months ago.
Brief spec. Core i7-2630QM 2.00GHz, 6GB RAM, Windows 7 HP 64bit.
Currently the boot time for Windows 7 varies from boot to boot anything from 1min 45sec to 2mins 20secs - very long.
I have Soluto installed and switched off or paused everything not required for start up.
I have removed unneccessary startups within msconfig and selected 'no boot GUI'.
I have changed number of cores used for boot from 1 to 8 (max).
I have switched off windows boot manager as I only use one o/s.
I have searched the BIOS for enabling quick-boot but cannot find any option.
Disk Clean up and defrag are not required.

[JMSnowy]

Two words: clean install.

My L502x (750GB HD) boots in 45 seconds. A clean installation of Windows should fix any problems you're having.

[xpsfing]

Two words: clean install.

My L502x (750GB HD) boots in 45 seconds. A clean installation of Windows should fix any problems you're having.

I like it. Just a lot of data to backup and program's to reinstall!
45seconds would be ideal.
Any other L502x owners care to post their boot times for win7?

[xxgokouxx]

Before you do that, have you deleted all logs of system restore?

I usually install CC cleaner, run cleaner, then registry fix, then tools and under system restore, i delete all but the most recent back-up. Also I've been using defraggler with Sam's suggestion (on my HDD, not SSD) and it works darn well, might want to give that a go!

Hope this helps with boot-up time!

BTW, if you have a lot of software and recent updates on your PC, of course it's going to lag on you during startup. No one should truly care for their startup times, but they should be concerned about their software load-times and the performance of their laptop when opening software...

You COULD also set the laptop to hibernate instead of Shut down everytime to save some times. I've used it on my M1330 for 3+ years, and my L702x when I wasn't using an SSD drive.

[ximinez]

17 seconds from poweron to login prompt. 2-3 seconds from login to desktop. Booting Ubuntu in a VM once the desktop is up takes about 9 seconds from poweron to login

[nikola1970]

Mine is about 1 year old now, same specs as yours, and boots in like 25-30 secs.

[mikeybc]

I didn't do a clean instal, I just got rid of the crap software and everything that had to do with Dell. Also got rid of that horrendously aweful Maxx waves software that killed the sound quality (chopped bass below roughly 100 hz) . 30-35 second boot time.

[xpsfing]

I didn't do a clean instal, I just got rid of the crap software and everything that had to do with Dell. Also got rid of that horrendously aweful Maxx waves software that killed the sound quality (chopped bass below roughly 100 hz) . 30-35 second boot time.

Is that Realtek HD Audio - should I uninstall this, what do I use instead?!
I have gotten rid of loads of stuff and just booted now - 2mins and 8 seconds terrible stuff.
I have alot of Microsoft development software installed - WebMatrix, Visual Studio, SQL Server 2008 - Im thinking these might have something to do with long boot, but I cant see them anywhere in Soluto or msconfig Startup tab? Strange.

[NeoMesal]

Go to system configuration and toggle Windows to display drivers as they are being loaded at start up (in the place of the startup animation)

Restart and see if any driver is impeding startup by taking a long time to load. - if all load fast except for the last, then it is probably software slowing everything down. (as per above)

I doubt it is Realtek slowing boot, otherwise a lot more people will be complaining!

EDIT - oops! you already have no GUI boot - can you identify anything that might be slowing things down?

[mikeybc]

Is that Realtek HD Audio - should I uninstall this, what do I use instead?!
I have gotten rid of loads of stuff and just booted now - 2mins and 8 seconds terrible stuff.
I have alot of Microsoft development software installed - WebMatrix, Visual Studio, SQL Server 2008 - Im thinking these might have something to do with long boot, but I cant see them anywhere in Soluto or msconfig Startup tab? Strange.

I got rid of Maxx and then updated drivers from Realtek. Not sure if Maxx slowed boot time or not but it sure sounds a lot better, even through the laptop speakers.

How many processes are running right after boot up ? When new it was 76 or so now it's 54 or so still a lot it seems but it's still fairly quick