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I've just reformatted my home PC. It's an i7-920, 16GB RAM machine (so it was pretty good back in the day).
I've installed a clean installation of Windows 7 and I'm wondering why the PC is much slower now after a clean installation than it was when I first bought it (take into account that I have no service packs installed so it's pretty much the same conditions).
Someone told me that it's because I've gotten used to faster computers. I don't think this is the case since it suggests that opening the start menu/file explorer always took a few seconds instead of being instantaneous.
Can someone tell me what's going on?
what in detail is slow? Also post all hardware you use. – magicandre1981 – 2014-08-31T14:02:08.253
I seriously doubt it takes a few seconds to open the start menu on your computer. – Ramhound – 2014-08-31T14:38:16.700
@Ramhound i've seen computers as slow as that loads of times! – barlop – 2014-08-31T14:51:21.997
1Have you checked the health of your hard drive? For example: chkdsk /r c: What kind of hard drive do you have? Maybe spinrite or mhdd scan on your drive. – cybernard – 2014-08-31T14:56:19.730
1After your clean install did you install the current version of ALL of your drivers? – cybernard – 2014-08-31T14:57:04.057
If it takes seconds to display the load times then you have hardware problems not performance problems – Ramhound – 2014-08-31T15:35:16.120