Aspire ES1-731 very slow start up

rodent
rodent Member Posts: 10

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A new machine, have Mozilla browser installed...Find the start up considerably slower than the E5-571 series which is slightly more expensive. Problem: there is a startup program that drags the whole process. It takes minutes. I have done the following; catagorize any start-up non important task as low priority; McAfee has a bad habit (like AVast!) of immediately hounding the HD at 100% occupancy. Disabled scan on start up.

Disabling immediate Scan at startup and even disabling AV doesn't solve the issue. Examining the task manager, there is a host program that is initiated. What is it ? It takes just as long on start up with the LAN disconnected, so I presume the procesessor continues with the resident programs.

 Even with Hardware acceleration on/off doesn't make any difference. Done the simplest things.

 

Have I bought a laggard with a slower processor; or has anyone else had sim behaviour ? The E5-571 series was darned quicker.

rich

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  • rodent
    rodent Member Posts: 10

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    Answer ✓

    Thanks for replies..but I did it my way.....since the notebook crashed under warranty..I took it back to where I bought it; only to be informed a 3 wk delay..(are Acer products so rough ?) so it was cheaper to clean the HD 100% clean, knock out the boot sectors (copies saved before, even though it's on the motherboard) and reinstall windows 10 without the ACER attachments, and all the other claptrap and without the absurd cortana, the add-ons which don't work on multilanguage machines. It took a whole day, but the result is back to basics, a much faster working machine; and a breeze to use. I can recommend to other budget users, if one knows the better of the complex sytem, to delete whatever start programs aren't necessary, but beware the Windows 10 programmers have tricked by scavenging the bits from other programs such as office for the Win 10 program to function !

    Be mighty careful how one forages with Win 10....it's pretty undebuggable stuff.

     

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  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder

    Are you running other spyware programs beside McAffe? I personally believe McAffe slows down boot.

    Some programs like Spybot and Superantispyware can cause McAffe to run slow.

    If it isn't just out of the box, downoad and run free Malwarebytes and see what it finds.

    An SSD HDD will speed it up a lot for under $100 for a 250, 256GB.

  • rodent
    rodent Member Posts: 10

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    Thanks...Malware detect came up with 4 items....(darned sure they were already resident in the notebook from the store I bought it from)....as in the meantime I have deleted many unwanted social media files +anything to do with cortana, which anyway doesn't work on multi-lingo and speech + game setups.I am using the notebook just as a basic cummunication and info medium without the accessories.  I have a deep suspicion that even new machines have Malware issues.

    There is also the problematic ...abDocsDllloader file which has a high start up impact, which I have disabled. There does appear to be conflicting views whether to leave it or delete it, as it came resident with the ACER setup. What is ACER's view ?

    As for boot time...was about 5 secs as shown in task manager.

    You suggest a solid state drive...

  • rodent
    rodent Member Posts: 10

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    This is getting really annoying and I really do believe I've bought a laggard; this ES1 is behaving far worse than the worst of the worst which I thought a Len B50-30 is a snail performer...Now the auto passwords aren't recognised...and set all over again. I've checked the system for Malware and now none found.....any unwanted flash-joins have been disconnected and and known start ups on low priority (as in the care section). Firefox caches cleared but the darned thing is getting even slower with CPU and HD both stuck at 100%. What the heck is causing this log jam ? One suspects a critical file missing and yet all the system checks show everything is up to date.

     In the power section; graphic power is set at 100% as are others.

    I can't believe I'm the only one having these issues.

    r:-

     

  • philetus
    philetus ACE Posts: 4,759 Pathfinder

    Open a command prompt as administrator.

    Scan the image to check for corruption. This operation will take several minutes. For example, at a command prompt, type the following command:
    Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth


    Check the image to see whether any corruption has been detected. For example, at a command prompt, type:
    Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth


    Use the /RestoreHealth argument to repair the image. For example, to repair an offline image using a mounted image as a repair source, at a command prompt, type the following command:
    Dism /Image:C:\offline /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:\test\mount\windows

  • rodent
    rodent Member Posts: 10

    Tinkerer
    Answer ✓

    Thanks for replies..but I did it my way.....since the notebook crashed under warranty..I took it back to where I bought it; only to be informed a 3 wk delay..(are Acer products so rough ?) so it was cheaper to clean the HD 100% clean, knock out the boot sectors (copies saved before, even though it's on the motherboard) and reinstall windows 10 without the ACER attachments, and all the other claptrap and without the absurd cortana, the add-ons which don't work on multilanguage machines. It took a whole day, but the result is back to basics, a much faster working machine; and a breeze to use. I can recommend to other budget users, if one knows the better of the complex sytem, to delete whatever start programs aren't necessary, but beware the Windows 10 programmers have tricked by scavenging the bits from other programs such as office for the Win 10 program to function !

    Be mighty careful how one forages with Win 10....it's pretty undebuggable stuff.

     

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