I have a Pavillion DM3 that I have updated to Windows 8 Pro. I have left the Win7 Home on as well and have a dual boot that I was going to keep until I was happy with Win8.
Win8 installed OK on a new partition and ran very well. I loaded some other software like Office and Acrobat, and it still started and ran very well. I then let it apply the Windows and Office updates (about 70 items). It then took about 10mins to boot. Thinking I had corrupted something, I tried the auto repair, but that didn't work, so I tried refresh and rebuilt the Win 8.
I reinstall all the items I had installed previously, and applied the updates again, but exactly the same problem - very slow to boot. I have now reverted to Win7 again, and it is all working fine again. I have left the HP System partition unchanged, and as the active drive. I did try various boot rebuilds but that didn't help either.
There must be something in the updates that causes this but I don't know how to find out what.
Any advise to point me in the right direction would be a help. I am not expecting to know which update is the problem, but more a process to find out.
Thanks
Win8 installed OK on a new partition and ran very well. I loaded some other software like Office and Acrobat, and it still started and ran very well. I then let it apply the Windows and Office updates (about 70 items). It then took about 10mins to boot. Thinking I had corrupted something, I tried the auto repair, but that didn't work, so I tried refresh and rebuilt the Win 8.
I reinstall all the items I had installed previously, and applied the updates again, but exactly the same problem - very slow to boot. I have now reverted to Win7 again, and it is all working fine again. I have left the HP System partition unchanged, and as the active drive. I did try various boot rebuilds but that didn't help either.
There must be something in the updates that causes this but I don't know how to find out what.
Any advise to point me in the right direction would be a help. I am not expecting to know which update is the problem, but more a process to find out.
Thanks
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Win8 Pro and Win7
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavillion DM3
- CPU
- 1.8 Dual core
- Memory
- 3Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- embedded
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- MS