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I have a Windows 8 system in which there is an admin and a standard account. The admin account will take only 10-20 seconds to reach the metro screen during startup. While the standard account takes nearly 2 minutes to reach its metro screen. Why is it so? How can I remove this delay?
Tomin Jacob
Posted 2014-10-25T08:16:24.457
Reputation: 235
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Go into Task Manager and then go to the Startup section. Disable any apps that you don't use or those that have a high startup load on the machine. Be careful not to remove any services or drivers you need like Touchpad or Audio Manager Service. You should also consider running a virus scan on your profile just to be sure that there are no viruses.
UserName
Posted 2014-10-25T08:16:24.457
Reputation: 77
1When you say "Guest account", do you mean a standard non-administrator account? Or an actual temporary guest account? – psubsee2003 – 2014-10-25T08:30:09.050
@psubsee2003 Guest account is non-administrator account. It is a permanent account. – Tomin Jacob – 2014-10-25T08:34:02.673
I would recommend you clarify that then as Windows 8 has support for actual guest accounts and it may confuse people trying to help you. Your [tag:guest] tag is also not appropriate given this.
– psubsee2003 – 2014-10-25T08:35:27.767capture a boot trace of the slowness: http://pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE
– magicandre1981 – 2014-10-25T15:52:20.630(1) Is this standard account a local or Microsoft account? (2) Does enabling or disabling Accelerated Graphics in Internet Explorer have an effect? (3) Is the Windows Firewall service disabled? (4) Check the log at
C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Local\Temp\WinStore.logand the Event Log for clues. – harrymc – 2014-11-16T10:30:38.083@harrymc (1) It is a guest account. (2) I don't tried it till. (3) Firewall is enabled. (4) What to check at the log files ? – Tomin Jacob – 2014-11-16T13:28:14.210
(2) Let us know the result. (4) Any error message. – harrymc – 2014-11-16T20:07:45.433
@harrymc (2) I disabled it and I think it reduced some time. But still it is taking 20-25 seconds. (4) No error message. – Tomin Jacob – 2014-11-17T03:02:16.910
Is it also slow when you boot to desktop mode? If not, what happens if you immediately click on the Start button (or press the Windows key)?
– harrymc – 2014-11-17T08:45:58.977@harrymc My OS is Windows 8 and so I can only boot to the metro screen. – Tomin Jacob – 2014-11-17T12:55:28.100
Sorry, I thought it was 8.1. You could still use a product such as Classic Shell.
– harrymc – 2014-11-17T13:01:47.147