Windows 7 Bootup Slow?

Hey everyone,
I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my Macbook Pro and it works just fine, but I have one issue with it.
Basically, for about a minute an a half after selecting Windows to boot, I get nothing but a black screen with a white cursor in the top left-hand side of the screen. After about a minute and a half to 2 minutes, the Windows bootscreen finally starts to appear and load and at this point, everything works fine. It is smooth sailing after that, but how do I fix that darn blanks screen? It takes forever to go away.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with Bootcamp version 3.1 on a Macbook Pro 15 inch Summer 09 model with a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 500GB 7200RPM HDD, 4GB Memory, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

Hello,
I have had the same problem with my IMac 27 Inch i5,
I Select Windows to boot, I get nothing but a black screen with a white cursor in the top hand left of the screen, for about one minute and a half, After that Windows Start's to kick in normally ?
Not only have I had that to put up with, but got jammed at instilling Windows 7, at the point where you put in a user name and password and so on on, I got a black screen at that point in the setup of Windows 7,
So I did some looking about for this problem and got this : http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173
^--that should fix the setup problem,
but I did not find a thing for that start up problem that we all are having,
I do not think we are going to find someone to help us with this problem,
I tred setting windows as the 1st one to Boot on too, But that did not work ?
I tred MSConfig in run, the putting 3 as the time, but that did not work ?
I am running out of thing's to think of, and that is not going to help,
endlessly, google search's I fill coming on, If I find something, Your all know about it here...

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first of all I would like to say sry, if my english isn't propper enough and lacks sometimes. I'm from germany...but anyway, here's my problem. ;-)
I have an 21,5 inch iMac mid 2011 with an intel i5, 4gb memory, AMD Radeon HD 6750 512 mb and a 500 GB Harddrive ( NOT SSD!! ).
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I have three computers in homegroup. They can see each other and sharing files is not a problem. Main computer, where I have all my data on uses Windows 7 Home premium, and Office 2007. Both other computers use latest version Windows 8.1, Office 2010. I
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Hi,
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About the environment
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USERENV(400.940) 08:56:39:203 GPOThread: Next refresh will happen in 95 minutes
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: Yes, we can impersonate the user. Running as self
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 ================================================== =======
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: Entering, hToken = <0x998>, lpProfileInfo = 0x6ea18
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: lpProfileInfo->dwFlags = <0x1>
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USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: NULL default profile path
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: NULL server name
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USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 In LoadUserProfileP
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 ================================================== =======
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: Entering, hToken = <0x998>, lpProfileInfo = 0x6ea18
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: lpProfileInfo->dwFlags = <0x1>
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: lpProfileInfo->lpUserName = <USERNAME>
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:062 LoadUserProfile: lpProfileInfo->lpProfilePath = <\\SERVER\VOL1\Users\USERNAME\Windows NT 5.1 Workstation Profile>
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USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:078 CheckXForestLogon: checking x-forest logon, user handle = 2456
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:02:078 CheckXForestLogon: Stand-alone or NT4 domain, not x-forest logon.
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:14:093 AbleToBypassCSC: Try to bypass CSC
USERENV(400.404) 08:57:14:250 AbleToBypassCSC: tried NPAddConnection3ForCSCAgent. Error 53
USERENV(b78.b7c) 08:57:21:500 LibMain: Process Name: C:\WINNT\system32\wuauclt.exe
USERENV(4ec.ca0) 08:57:42:812 LibMain: Process Name: C:\WINNT\System32\Novell\XTAgent.exe
USERENV(4ec.ca0) 08:57:42:828 GetUserDNSDomainName: Computer is running standalone. No DNS domain name available.
USERENV(400.404) 09:00:16:000 ParseProfilePath: CSC bypassed failed. Ignoring Roaming profile path
USERENV(400.404) 09:00:16:015 ReportError: Impersonating user.

OK, I'm out of Ideas.
I was hoping for something much bigger :>
You may want to post in the MS Forums in regards to the Timeout in that
part.
I would not mention ZCM or Client32 as that will just cause pushback.
In short, there appears to be a long timeout for the redirected profile
that extends beyond just client timeout settings.
You may want to post the the Client32 Forum to see if they have anymore
timeout tweaks.
You may be able to use the "Bad Name Cache" to pre-popate that server so
you can gain the 10 seconds w/o needing to disable the workstation service.
Perhaps the "Give Up on Requests to SAs", but I've never messed with
that before. Wait before giving up on DA may help too.
Just guessing now.
On 2/1/2011 4:06 PM, nathan cook wrote:
>
> craig_wilson;2070716 Wrote:
>> As a Test, Could you disable the "Workstation" Service on the Device?
>> There is a Change the MS Client is trying to pull the Profile from
>> there
>> as well.
>>
>> If this "Test" works, we can try and think of a real solution.
>
> Thanks Craig, just tried that and it took 10 secs off the time.
>
>
Craig Wilson - MCNE, MCSE, CCNA
Novell Knowledge Partner
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Suggestions/Opinions/Statements made by me are solely my own.
These thoughts may not be shared by either Novell or any rational human.

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Are you able to help/ Thank you.
Sincerely,
Wilson

Extra comments;
I also tried the following, which did not fix the startup (*Once up, Windows works well!*):
1. Checked for file and disk errors (ckdsk?? on startup).
2. Purged temporary internet and other temporary files (using internet options and disk cleanup utilities)
3. Cleared out Prefetch files.
4. Emptied trash.
5. Under "msconfig", I found 4 items there as startup items. I disabled Adobe Reader and Quicktime helpers, leaving only thus 2 startup items of the 4 enabled (Bulldog and some Microsoft thing).
6. Defragmented.
No better results.
Sincerely,
Wilson

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Ideas?
Thank you..

Hi, do you mean 12 Gb of hard drive space? Is that 10% or more of your total? If not, then the first thing to do is clear off some unnecessary files. That will enable your machine to run as it should. The next step is to force the machine to run its daily, weekly, and monthly cleanup/optimization repair scripts. For that, you have your choice of tools, from Cocktail to Onyx to MacHelpMate (the last is my personal favorite).
Now as for the grainy and badly-contrasted windows, do you also lose your system date and time when you reboot?
HTH,
~FifthWheel

VNC connection to an iMac running Lion from Windows - very slow

Before switching from Snow Leopard to Lion I used Vineserver on my Mac to access it using VNC. VIneserver does not work in Lion, so I decided to try the built-in server (screen sharing)
After multiple atttempts and tweeks I managed to connect to the Mac using TightVNC on my windows machine, however, it is a very slow process. After connecting, I get a strange looking gray screen, with 2 fields asking for my userID and password. The response from the Mac is extremely slow, and sometimes it freezes up all together. If and when I get through that first screen, and I finally see my desktop, things speed up a little, but it doesn't come close the speeds I achieved with Vineserver. The new login screen is what makes it almost not usable though. Does anyone have a similar experience - or a solution?

This issue is caused by a difference in the way Lion handles screen logins.
You must change the way you log in so that the client uses Mac OS X sign, on the Mac OS X user and Mac OS X password and not a VNC password.
On the Lion machine that is acting as the server to remote to, have screen sharing on but untick the two boxes in the Computer Settings area as shown in this screenshot:-
This set up works well with my Lion Mac using Mocha VNC iOS client and gives a very usable response across the internet from my iPhone 4.
Before I made these changes I could barely log in.

Windows explorer slow in one window but not another

Hello,
I have an issue on a single PC where a network folder (not always the same folder) will start to run slow if multiple files are selected, either by mouse drag or by holding ctrl/shift.
The very odd thing is I can launch a separate explorer folder and browse to the same folder and every thing works fine. I have the two windows open side by side and one acts normal, yet the other runs very slow. Restarting explorer.exe resolves the issue
but is not an optimal solution.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Hi,
Sometimes, your antivirus software can slow you down if they are set to scan the network files, you can temporarily turn off these antivirus software or exclude certain folders for a test.
Disable network task scheduler (if you have) when you try to open a network folder, see this link
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-increase-the-browsing-speed-of-your-networks-shared-folders/
Another option is to increase the internet bandwidth, see this link
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-increase-your-network-speed-or-internet-speed-by-over-20/
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The larger the partition for windows, the slower it will run?

Hello Everyone,
Someone has told me this was the case, The larger you put your partition for windows, your computer or windows will run slower. Is this really the case? i was planning to make windows 500GBs and Mac 500GBs, will this cause any issues?
Thank You

Yep, even if you put them to 500GB each.
If this were true, 500+GB hard drives wouldn't be very popular. Also, IF there is any connection between HD size and speed, it'd be very very hard to notice. Generally, at least in the past, HD's with more storage feature slower drive speeds, so this is potentially where this untrue statement came from, however, I do believe that is a thing of the past and Windows will run fine on your 500GB partition, without any noticable speed difference from a smaller sized partition. The drive still spins at the same speed, regardless of partition size.

Windows 7 slow to boot after setting up windows backup to additional drive.

I have an issue with windows taking forever to boot after setting up Windows backup.
PC Setup:
2 Samsung SSD Mirrored for Hardware raid on (MOBO OS/Programs)
2 Seagate 4TB Mirrored for Hardware raid (Data storage)
1 Seagate 4tb HD used solely for Windows backup. (Have also tried with multiple other drives with same outcome.)
If I have all drives connected without setting up the Windows Backup, system will boot up in 37 seconds. As soon as I enable the backup to the additional drive, it kills the boot time. Brings boot time to over 2.5 mins. Brand new PC, clean
installation, no antivirus or any other software that could be slowing it down. If drive is just in PC as an extra drive there seems to be no issue, just as soon as I enable the Windows Backup to additional drive. Never noticed this issue on any other
PC

Log booting process (set it in F8 menu).
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Milos

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