Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - Has slowed my machine

[Fletch456]

Guys

I recently downloaded a large windows update that said it was Service Pack 1 and its significantly slowed down the time my machine takes to boot up. And I think may be to perform generally a tiny bit. Windows 7 is the first windows system I can say in all these years that I have liked and booting up quickly is one of the benefits and I reckon I could have measure it in seconds but now it doesn't finish for a couple of minutes.

Is there anything that can be done to improve things - the change definitely happened after the download and is remarkable?

I am using a Dell Studio laptop, i5 processor, 4gb of ram,...if it makes any difference. I could look at removing the picture that I have as the screen save that will be at least 2mb and the Dell (Mac like) tool bar (it's the last thing to appear and takes a while to do so).

Thoughts welcome

 

[ColinJ]

A quick search on Google reveals that this is a very common problem and many people are waiting for a fix. I found quite a few people who eventually reinstalled windows and didn't reinstall SP1! Doesn't sound good!

A Microsoft update screwed up Win XP for me last year. MS kept denying there was a problem, then quietly fixed it!

 

[danphoto]

MS kept denying there was a problem, then quietly fixed it!

Gosh. Never known them to do that before ...

 

[Fletch456]

Thanks guys - I've googled it too now and since to be a very common downside. C'est la vie. :-(

 

[Ghost Donkey]

A quick search on Google reveals that this is a very common problem and many people are waiting for a fix. I found quite a few people who eventually reinstalled windows and didn't reinstall SP1! Doesn't sound good!

A Microsoft update screwed up Win XP for me last year. MS kept denying there was a problem, then quietly fixed it!

I remeber the XP one. Caused real problems on our laptop at home until the fix came a few days later.

I got the same problem with windows 7 described in the OP on my work computer. I run windows 7 with the official XP domain client running as a virtual machine. My admin account got pooped following the windows 7 update too. Got that sorted but there's no accessible restore points from before the update despite being told one was being created. My dilemma now is whether to reinstall and wait on the update ot see if there's a fix and run with an "unsecure" windows 7 without the service pack. A clean build followed by the SP might work or I'll see if Microsoft have Windows 7 inc SP1 downloadable from their download centre.

 

[swee'pea99]

Such accounts are the reason I always tell people to turn off the automatic updates on their computers. (Most of them ignore me, needless to say.) Nothing wrong with most of them, but I like to wait a while with any new service pack or the like, till the Micromuppets have sorted out the initial teething troubles.

 

[ian turner]

Muppets with automatic updates turned off are the ones who then ask you to clean the false antivirus malware off their pcs for them due to not installing the exploit patches