Programs taking long time to start

[Rustys]

Any new information from the instruction posted?

[mistamichal]

Any new information from the instruction posted?

Me?

[Rustys]

Yes

[mistamichal]

Nothing else to report.

[Bruce]

but where are we up to?
do you still have the issue?
what have you tried so far from the suggested advice?

[mistamichal]

I still have the issue. I’ve tried suggestions and posted responses to questions asked.

[Rustys]

I still have the issue. I’ve tried suggestions and posted responses to questions asked.

Where what post number answers post 11 and 14.

post a newer speccy report to validate what you are claiming.

[mistamichal]

Where what post number answers post 11 and 14.

post a newer speccy report to validate what you are claiming.

Post 11:

1 - Brand new system with brand new components that meet system requirements for Windows 11
2 - Done before posting to the forum
3 - I don’t have antivirus software, only Windows antivirus
4 - Done before posting to forum
5 - Done before posting to forum
6 - no problematic programs found so nothing to reinstall
7 - Never in a million years will I do that.

Post 14:

Answered in post 15.

Nothing has changed so a speccy report would be exactly the same as the previous one.

[Bruce]

as stated in post #7, because this also happens in Safe Mode, you’d have to be thinking hardware issue.
and you have reloaded Windows onto a different drive, with the other drives disconnected, so we can rule out the SSD being at fault.

just checking - you have tried reloading onto a different drive?
cause in post #8 you say it would be way too painful, then in post #21 you say you have tried all suggestions.

so that leaves hardware, and potentially some sort of incompatibility - like the RAM with the motherboard, or the RAM to the processor.

other than that - I’ve got nothing.

[mistamichal]

I haven’t installed windows on a different drive because the amount of time it would take to do that and reinstall all my programs, I’d rather just put up with the slow loading times. That being said, Windows is on a M.2 drive and all my other drives are slower speeds, so I don’t want to take the chance that things will end up just the same or even slower.

When I bought all my components, the store said that they checked everything and it was all compatible ( I realise that doesn’t mean much, they just probably wanted to make the sale seeing as I was buying $3500 AUD worth of components from them).

[Bruce]

it doesn’t matter when we suggest, “the problem is this”, “have you done that” - sometimes it simply comes down to “let’s give this a crack” as nothing else has helped.

for me, the most likely cause of your issue is the SSD - be it faulty, dying, or things got corrupted during installation.

to test that theory, reloading Windows onto any other of your drives would be the next logical step.
installing Windows takes less than 20mins. (no need to reinstall all the drivers, that’s not what we are testing)
getting the latest build onto a bootable USB stick using the Windows Media Creation Tool takes about 10mins. (depending on your download speeds)
once Windows is installed you only need to install one or two programs to test load times. so 5mins for Office and 5 for Photoshop.

in other words, within one or two hours we would know whether we have found the culprit.
yes it may all be for naught - be we’d be able to cross the SSD off the list of probable causes.

if all that seems too much, by all means you can continue using the rig as is.

[mistamichal]

Okeydoke. I have the day off work so I could spare the time for this.

I disconnected all my drives and then connected a spare HDD that I have. I installed windows, then installed MS Office and Adobe Photoshop - as they’re the main culprits.

I got the same result: When I double click the icon to run the program - e.g. Photoshop, there’s no activity for about 20 seconds, then the disk starts up and the programs load within a few seconds. I exit the program and run it again and it starts loading immediately. I run something else - in this case MS Edge seeing as I didn’t install any other programs. Then I run Photoshop again and, once again there’s no activity for about 20 secs and so on…

I tried the same with MS Word and got the same result.

So, I’m at a complete loss, unless there’s something I haven’t turned on in the BIOS that should be turned on? I don’t know.

[Bruce]

OK, not the outcome we were hoping for, but progress none the less.
can’t say I’ve seen this sort of thing where a program starts slow, then starts fine until another programs starts, then the initial one is back to slow again.

let’s get some previous eyes back on this; @PeterOz @phillpower2
and some new eyes; @xrobwx71 @Pyro @georgeks @Malnutrition

[PeterOz]

then installed MS Office and Adobe Photoshop

Should have only installed MS office

[mistamichal]

Should have only installed MS office

but then I wouldn’t have been able to properly repeat the problem.