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New Install - Still 2+ Minutes Thanks Master Chief and Brink, I have applied the tutorial above to both OSes and rebooted a couple of times about the only result I see now is Win 7 is a trifle slower and 8.1 is still the lazy one. I appreciate your assistance and expertise but since the third...

Thanks Brink, I have run SFC /SCANNOW again and no integrity problems were found. I then initiated the System Restore and it has just now come up after 2+ minutes so this is a puzzle. If this can't be solved I'll do a wipe and clean install on one machine to see if that helps. I do...

Only the C: system partition in each machine. The HDs don't turn off during normal use. I am hoping to avoid a fresh install, fingers crossed.

Sorry to call up an old thread but I have a problem on both Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit machines. When my intent is to go to a system restore point, from System Properties and then click on System Restore it takes slightly more than 2 minutes for the Restore dialog window to open. This is from the...