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Reboot Windows, press F8 and select the option &quot;Enable Boot Logging&quot;.<br />
Once it's UP, inspect the log in order to understand what takes so long.
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You mean the bios screen?<br />
Post screen.<br />
Do you have any anti virus security software set to do a boot scan?<br />
That's my first thought?<br />
Hardware attached?<br />
HDD's &nbsp;how many? or just one<br />
SSD?<br />
Remove any HDD on USB if connected that will slow boot time considerably especially if it's a terabyte.<br />
Remove network?<br />
Printer?<br />
How many internal HDD?<br />
System specs? Just cause I'm curios as I built my system recently as well ;)<br />
motherboard<br />
CPU ram etc<br />
PSU?<br />
has it always been like this?<br />
Did you change the boot settings?<br />
Make sure quick boot is enabled in your bios, and make sure hdd is the first choice of your boot device, otherwise the bios will check your hdd /Lan and other stuff first before getting to the hdd, and if you have mutiple hdd's, check &nbsp;that the bootloader one is listed as first priority...
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I built a new Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit system and it takes a long time to get past the splash screen, the black one. &nbsp;Anyone seen this before?
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I built a new Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit system and it takes a long time to get past the splash screen, the black one.  Anyone seen this before?

Windows 7 Logo Screen

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