Windows 7 Slow Startup High Disk Usage

Hey all,

so i've been experiencing abnormally slow start ups on my pc. The main drive is a western digital caviar black 1tb. After booting up the system will almost be completely unusable for 3-5mins. After everything finally loads you will hear the windows sound that should play within the first few seconds of booting after 3+mins. I have disabled many programs on startup which you can view in my attached screenshot

I've also ran crystal disk and everything appears to be fine


I've run a chkdsk r which i've pasted the text results below.

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x80f.
389120 file records processed. File verification completed.
2533 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 63 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
477430 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
389120 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 1427 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1427 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1427 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is compacting the security descriptor stream
44156 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37051072 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
389104 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
145923068 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

976657407 KB total disk space.
392268152 KB in 307154 files.
173808 KB in 44159 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
523175 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
583692272 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244164351 total allocation units on disk.
145923068 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 f0 05 00 5b 5c 05 00 53 03 09 00 00 00 00 00 ....[\..S.......
1d 0c 00 00 3f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....?...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


An image of my system booting up after 2mins


I also get random slow downs during gaming



slowdown on the desktop not doing much at the time


Avira causing slowdowns?


If you need more information please let me know

 

Of the 11 programs I see that are enabled, disable the following
1. Realtek HD Audio Manager (you can run it as needed)
2. Logitech Gaming Framework (you can run it as needed)
3. NVIDIA GeForce Experience
4. Google Update
5. Google Chrome
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-w...on-essential-startup-items-can-safely-remove/
6. USB 3.0 Monitor
7. ? I can't see all of AcroTray can you please tell me what Dis... is
8. disable StereoLinksInstall and then if need, enable it
http://www.systemlookup.com/Startup/24893-nvstlink_exe.html

Can you also post more of the entries that are running at startup so I can determine if others can be disabled.

 

Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and disabled all start up items except the 2 avira items listed and didn't really notice much of a difference in start up time. the items that were not not visible in the msconfig were already disabled I only showed what I had enabled in that image. I'm more concerned about the random disk usage I get while gaming which is hindering my gaming.

 

I don't game so I have nothing to offer there.

If you disabled 8 startup items and noticed no difference in the startup time and the computer is not usable for 3 - 5 minutes, then you need to look at the health of your hard drive with a different tool and your antivirus. Perhaps Avira is scanning things as you game.
Is it an online game?

 

You might try turning off Avira auto update and any boot time scan feature if it has it. I used to game and turned off all auto updating, including windows. Just remember to do them manually on a regular basis.

 

Hi my friend , you could download this tool

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/get/hard_disk_sentinel,1.html

informing us about health/performance of your hdd , even you could run this manufacturer's tool

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/western_digital_data_lifeguard_tools.html

 

Yep they are online games. I might try disabling avira altogether. Only had enough time to perform a quick test. The other one seemed to be for bad sectors which i've already checked using chkdsk.

 

Good for you is to run Extended Test checking your hdd , take a picture of your hdd's sentinel report , maybe your hdd is faulty , may you have to replace it , do you have another back up of your data ? If not you could buy an external hdd , is your psu right ? You may trying to check with another psu , many times these symptoms is causing by faulty psu