Windows 7 Bootcamp

I just newly installed Windows 7 bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (2010). The installtion ran smoothly. But there seems to be a problem for me. The bootup time from being on to off or vice versa is 7 seconds flat.
And when I play games, my CPU usage would shoot up into the 80%-100%s making my screen freeze every 2 minutes, and typing anything onto a screen would take 2 seconds for my computer to compute.
Note: This was not the first time i install windows 7. The first time I did it, everything ran so smooth and fast. the bootup time would be at 2 seconds flat. no freezes when I play games or open anything up. How could I fix this?

Hi,
please see my answer in your other thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2596332&tstart=0
Regards
Stefan

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Hello Alberto and Woodmeister50,
thank you for both your answers.
I have to try and remember to state things I have tried previously or am aware of; my bad!
Alberto:
Thanks for your ideas.
I'm aware of ex-fat format.
Unfortunately, my external drives are quite full and a reformat or EXFAT partition is out of the question.
I'm formatted them OSX extended journaled a couple of years back before I was aware of exfat.
I could buy yet another drive, but I don't really want to do that until SSD's come down in price and expand in size.
[also, while not a big issue, I hear EXFAT can't handle files bigger than 4gb. Not that I have many such files, so that's not really a big concern].
So doing my file organization through windows explorer is, to my knowledge, the best option,
if it is possible. [I hope!]
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Thanks.
Actually, my problem is both HFS+ / windows compatibility AND that I hate finder
[the HFS problem being a result of the fact I hate finder]
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Um.... there were a bunch of others I tried, but all no good.
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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         396.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
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/dev/disk1
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *396.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 24E03077-3356-4196-BB91-B1BD30D1C660
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
Vazeers-MacBook-Pro:~ vazeer$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group F3E8D0A9-F2F7-4D60-9705-CDE53C1E5CAC
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         396417986560 B (396.4 GB)
    Free Space:   10645504 B (10.6 MB)
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    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     396417986560 B (396.4 GB)
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        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            Yes
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
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            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          396055019520 B (396.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
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WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
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gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059
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          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
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         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 774253880      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
774663520    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
775933056        896
775933952 201170944      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
977104896        131
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 774253880] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 774663520 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
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