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Sorry to be a little simple MagicAndre, I do my best to read and follow whats going on, but I'm not exactly on your level! What can I do about this? Are you just saying I need a new SSD (A new Hard drive basically?) If so Do you think that mine is just old and needs replacing (Its been working fine for ages and I've defragged and run the relevant HDD test on it from WD and Seagate one (I have 2 HDDs)) My PC used to boot in about 30secs then suddenly it takes 10mins to boot. Nothing has changed as far as I'm aware. Else Can I reload the ACPI driver? Would that help? hwpolicy.sys is this right? > Microsoft Windows Hardware Policy Driver system driver file Can I just remove this driver and if so how? Thanks in advance for putting up with nub questions PS OH yes!!!!! ;-)

Hi there, I have been pointed to post here about my issues, I'm afraid your initial post I found a little confusing. Here is my post: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170602-windows-8-suddenly-takes-a-long-time-to-boot/ or I can paste it here: Hi there, I apoogise in advance as I did try to follow the tutorial to get the correct log files. If you can Help me please let me know and I can show them to you. Basically I have windows 8 running fine taking about a minute ish to start up now it takes 10mins or so. Once booted its fine.and runs ok, but this is ridiculous! To the best of my knowledge I haven't installed anything prior to this happening. I'm unsure if this would be a hardware or software issue so open to suggestions. I have run an Av and malware and rootkit scan and removed one malware. I have stopped everything from running on boot except my AV software. Booting to safe mode is still as slow as ever. I cannot boot to safe mode as the start up is so slow that nothing happens anymore hitting f8. (can only get there by restarting using msconfig) I have defragged and optimised both HDDs and run chkdisk. No warnings in device manager. A few errors in eventlog but nothing major or consistent - I can get them if wanted. I used SFC /SCANNOW Command which initially failed so I used Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth this appeared to work and then on running sfc /scannow then completed successfully with no errors, but no change in boot speed. Windows update has been run and all up to date. I've looked at the reliability monitor and the only thing that is showing as critical events is amd CCC, but have removed all traces of it now as I have an nvidia graphics card now and a couple of windows not shut down properly and photos for example not responding. Tried, command prompt and type : wmic diskdrive get status shows: ok ok Used seatools and the WD one too - all shows ok (SMART) I then used system restore to restore the computer to prior to this happening - this completed successfully, but still no change on the boot up speed. I have used CCleaner to fix broken reg entries.... (no change) I then downloaded and ran the Windows Assesssment console and have the logs, but am unsure really where to go with them. Please help! Very annoying!! I have .etl log and also the summary.xml file Thanks btw system is:

Hi there, I apoogise in advance as I did try to follow the tutorial to get the correct log files. If you can Help me please let me know and I can show them to you. Basically I have windows 8 running fine taking about a minute ish to start up now it takes 10mins or so. Once booted its fine.and runs ok, but this is ridiculous! To the best of my knowledge I haven't installed anything prior to this happening. I'm unsure if this would be a hardware or software issue so open to suggestions. I have run an Av and malware and rootkit scan and removed one malware. I have stopped everything from running on boot except my AV software. Booting to safe mode is still as slow as ever. I cannot boot to safe mode as the start up is so slow that nothing happens anymore hitting f8. (can only get there by restarting using msconfig) I have defragged and optimised both HDDs and run chkdisk. No warnings in device manager. A few errors in eventlog but nothing major or consistent - I can get them if wanted. I used SFC /SCANNOW Command which initially failed so I used Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth this appeared to work and then on running sfc /scannow then completed successfully with no errors, but no change in boot speed. Windows update has been run and all up to date. I've looked at the reliability monitor and the only thing that is showing as critical events is amd CCC, but have removed all traces of it now as I have an nvidia graphics card now and a couple of windows not shut down properly and photos for example not responding. Tried, command prompt and type : wmic diskdrive get status shows: ok ok Used seatools and the WD one too - all shows ok (SMART) I then used system restore to restore the computer to prior to this happening - this completed successfully, but still no change on the boot up speed. I have used CCleaner to fix broken reg entries.... (no change) I then downloaded and ran the Windows Assesssment console and have the logs, but am unsure really where to go with them. Please help! Very annoying!! I have .etl log and also the summary.xml file Thanks btw system is: