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Hi, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 but it takes around 10mins to boot. Is it because I have an old CPU and need to upgrade, any comments would be appreciative.
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Buy an SSD if you want superb boot up times and almost zero loading times in day to day operations. The HDD is the main bottleneck in most computers.

If you want a free alternative, install something lightweight like Linux Mint and see how that runs.
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What CPU do you have,also why did you upgrade your CPU because I guess your PC is quite outdated
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Whoever down voted Generation had no reason to. Believe it or not the CPU doesn't control your boot times 100%. It's all in the hard drive's RPMs. A 7200 RPM hard drive boots in around ~45 from my experience. Though I highly doubt yours is a high RPM drive as you make it sound pretty old.

An SSD would be your best bet, but it would be beneficial if you had a motherboard with SATA 3, again still unsure how old your machine is. Can you give us all of your current specs?
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itsMichael wrote Whoever down voted Generation had no reason to. Believe it or not the CPU doesn't control your boot times 100%. It's all in the hard drive's RPMs. A 7200 RPM hard drive boots in around ~45 from my experience. Though I highly doubt yours is a high RPM drive as you make it sound pretty old.

An SSD would be your best bet, but it would be beneficial if you had a motherboard with SATA 3, again still unsure how old your machine is. Can you give us all of your current specs?


If it is as old as he is making out wouldn't a new build be the best option?
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itsMichael wrote Whoever down voted Generation had no reason to. Believe it or not the CPU doesn't control your boot times 100%. It's all in the hard drive's RPMs. A 7200 RPM hard drive boots in around ~45 from my experience. Though I highly doubt yours is a high RPM drive as you make it sound pretty old.

An SSD would be your best bet, but it would be beneficial if you had a motherboard with SATA 3, again still unsure how old your machine is. Can you give us all of your current specs?


Classic TTG I tell ya.

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> person who downvoted does not quote you as to why he does not agree with you

If it is as old as he is making out wouldn't a new build be the best option?


In this case, no.

There are 1,000's of people who put a nice speedy SSD in their old slow system and now it's surprisingly fast due to 3 - 4 x read times which = almost zero freezing / lag / slow down times.
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