Window7 RC slow to sign in on Compaq Presario laptop
When I first loaded Win7RC it was _fast_ (very impressive work people!) Lately my Win7 RC laptop has been very slow to sign in. After inputting my password and hitting [ENTER] the screen goes blank for 5-7 seconds during which time there is no disk activity, then screen paints and it's on with the show. The same thing happens with I sign off (5-7sec pause after signing off but before displaying the 'user choice' screen) or switch user. Anybody have any ideas how I can identify where the slowdown is? Seems like there's a sleep() in the code, or it's timing out waiting for something to happen. Compaq Presario V6030US CPU: 1.6GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 RAM: 4GB GPU: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 HDD: 320GB 7200RPM SATA DVD: LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVDR/RW with Double Layer Support
July 28th, 2009 1:05am

Do you have the latest drivers for your hardware installed? Maybe a driver problem is causing this?Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results...Click here for my thread on Win7 min. requirements - JoelbX
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July 28th, 2009 8:36pm

I have all the latest drivers that Windows Update offers. The laptop manufacturer does not yet offer any Windows7 drivers on their support website. They do offer Vista 32bit drivers (I'm running Win7 32bit) from 2007 but I figured Win7 drivers were better than those. Is that an invalid assumption? When I first installed Win7 from the RC .iso the laptop did not exhibit this behavior. It's only recently so one of the updates must have done it. I guess my only course of action is to start uninstalling updates one at a time until the behavior goes away. What a pain. Is there any kind of 'debug' flag I can set to enable some logging that might assist in narrowing down the issue? - Mark H
July 29th, 2009 3:31pm

I have all the latest drivers that Windows Update offers. The laptop manufacturer does not yet offer any Windows7 drivers on their support website. They do offer Vista 32bit drivers (I'm running Win7 32bit) from 2007 but I figured Win7 drivers were better than those. Is that an invalid assumption? Nope, completely valid. Vista drivers will work, but win7 drivers are designed to run better with win7. When I first installed Win7 from the RC .iso the laptop did not exhibit this behavior. It's only recently so one of the updates must have done it. I guess my only course of action is to start uninstalling updates one at a time until the behavior goes away. What a pain. Is there any kind of 'debug' flag I can set to enable some logging that might assist in narrowing down the issue? Do you have any A/V software? A lot of big A/V suites out there aren't compatible with win7 yet, that may be causing the problem.Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results...Click here for my thread on Win7 min. requirements - JoelbX
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July 29th, 2009 6:56pm

Hi. Try to "clean boot"http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;331796&x=12&y=9My English is not wery well...
July 29th, 2009 11:06pm

This is just a kitchen laptop used mostly for web browsing and occasional document editing of stuff kept on the main house machine (WinXP SP3). Using free AVG anti-virus. Not much stuff installed. Just a few things like Firefox, Office 2007, Adobe PDF, Flash and Shockwave viewers, Java. I didn't install much of anything since I'll just have to wipe and re-install after 10/22. I'll get a better list of installed stuff tonight and I'll try out the clean boot too. I think its the NVidia driver and all the cruft that goes along with it. This happened when it was running XP and got a NVidia update from Windows Update, but I could never get it fixed, even by uninstalling the driver. Sorry it's taking me so long to respond... life takes precedence. And for some reason this forum won't tell me when someone posts a response, even though I've told it to Alert me . Thanks, Mark H.
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July 30th, 2009 4:00pm

I didn't install much of anything since I'll just have to wipe and re-install after 10/22. The RC will still work until July 2010. October 22nd is just when win7 is released for sale. In March 2010, automatic bi-hourly shutdowns will start to try to get you to buy win7!Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results...Click here for my thread on Win7 min. requirements - JoelbX
July 30th, 2009 7:42pm

Ya, I know. I pre-ordered off NewEgg for $49. I'm not a big believer of 'upgrading' a installation on disk. I'm a wipe-it-and-install-a-clean-copy kinda guy. I figure there will probably be enough changes between RC and GA that I'll scrape and re-install when my copy arrives.
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July 30th, 2009 9:04pm

Ya, I know. I pre-ordered off NewEgg for $49. I'm not a big believer of 'upgrading' a installation on disk. I'm a wipe-it-and-install-a-clean-copy kinda guy. I figure there will probably be enough changes between RC and GA that I'll scrape and re-install when my copy arrives. Yep, I'm the same here with clean-installs! Just pointing out that the RC does work beyond 10/22... ...And actually MS does not allow you to upgrade from RC to GA...Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results...Click here for my thread on Win7 min. requirements - JoelbX
July 30th, 2009 9:43pm

Drat. After a Vista-style clean boot the behavior is still there. A small correction though... it's not 5-7 seconds, it's around 13-15secs! I take it back. I hadn't installed any anti-virus on this laptop. Here's what's installed on it: Adobe Flash Player ActiveX 9.0.159.0 Adobe Flash Player Plugin 9.0.159.0 Adobe Reader 9.1.2 Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5 Aspell English Dictionary-0.50-2 Conexant HD Audio Frostwire 4.18.0 GNU Aspell 0.50-3 GTK+ Runtime 2.14.7 rev a HDAUDIO Soft Data Fax Modem with SmartCP Java 6 Update 14 Microsoft Office Standard 2007 12.0.6425.1000 Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0 Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 NVIDIA Drivers 1.3 Pidgin 2.5.7 Spelling Dictionaries Support for Adobe Reader 9.0.0 Synaptics Pointing Device Driver 11.0.7.0 Vim 7.2 I went ahead and installed AVG Free and scanned the machine... nothing. I'm pretty sure it was the Windows Update NVidia Go 6150 video driver that did it, but uninstalling it did not fix. This weekend I'm gonna wipe and re-install just Win7 applying each update one at a time to see which one did it. Not that I'll be able to do anything about it once I find it, but at least I'll know.
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July 31st, 2009 4:19pm

Yep. It's the NVidia Go 6150 video driver update. The one that comes off the DVD doesn't have the issue. I can also remove the driver which leaves me with the standard VGA driver that does not have the problem, but when I update that (to the latest driver) it continues to have the problem. There's a XP NVidia Go 6150 video driver update that causes the same issue (I tried going back to XP). I'm not sure how to proceed with this other than never updating the 6150 driver after base install. Methinks my request for a fix from Microsoft or NVidia will fall on deaf ears, even if I did know how/who to contact. If only Bill's laptop had this problem, it would probably get fixed Pronto. Na... he'd just get a new laptop.
August 13th, 2009 5:23pm

There seems to be two problems. P1: Welcome screen spins for ~30secs after login (I actually clocked it this time). P2: ~30secs of black screen before desktop appears. ~30secs of black screen also occurs at logout and 5-10secs of black screen before and after UAC prompt for admin password. Workarounds: WA1: This is actually happening on _both_ my Win7 Home Premium laptops (one 32bit with nVidia Go 6150, one 64bit with Intel 965) and it seems to have been triggered by, get this..., my solid color desktop background (I know, I know... makes no sense). I changed the background to an image... any image, and my "Welcome" screen times are back to their original Win7RC times of ~2-3secs on both laptops WA2: I uninstalled the nVidia Go 6150 driver installed by Win7 and installed the (really) old Vista32bit nVidia Go 6150 from the vendor and the black screens are gone. There are other occasional issues with that driver, but much easier to live with than those long black screens. These are by no means fixes. These are workarounds .
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November 18th, 2009 5:27pm

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