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Windows 10 works just fine - I have been using it for near 7 months now. <br />
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You can try turning Cortana off - I do not use it myself. <br />
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I have a number of Windows 10 machines - 2 of my own and a number of clients and the machines are not slow to start. <br />
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Try reinstalling Windows 10. Go to the Media Creation Link and run the Windows 10 installer in place. Since you are willing to start fresh, choose the option to Keep Nothing, and this will do a fresh install of Windows 10.<br />
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<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10" rel="ugc">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10</a>&nbsp;<br />
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Licensing has already been stored in the Microsoft Licensing Server.
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Test the HD using the disk manufacturer's utility, and the RAM with memtest86+. You'll find most manufacturer's utilities and memtest86+ on the UBCD:<br />
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<a href="http://mirror.sysadminguide.net/ubcd/ubcd535.iso" rel="ugc">http://mirror.sysadminguide.net/ubcd/ubcd535.iso</a><br />
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When installing Windows 10, make sure you install the chipset drivers, reboot, then the rest of the PC's drivers. Make sure the disk controller is set to AHCI mode in the BIOS.<br />
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When setting up the user account, make sure to select a local account, and not an m$ account. Disable all the craps stuff that &quot;phone's home&quot;.
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it can be a dying disk drive (slwo getting up to speed) so yes running diags is a good start here
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PC has both Win 10 and 7 options DVDs supplied . Customer wanted Win 10 :-( <br />
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Anyways .... <br />
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It can take ages to boot. &nbsp;Some times have to boot and then then hard power off and it boots every second time. &nbsp;<br />
Has to be hard powered off sometimes <br />
Installed Chrome and it hangs / uninstalled and reinstalled - its still not right. <br />
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All HP updates installed <br />
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The customer is tech savvy and has given me eventvwr errors <br />
These errors coincide with the boot problem <br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/02_w08/1082508/sweet---event-viewer-.JPG" target="_blank" title="eventvwr (107 KB)"><img alt="eventvwr" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 640px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2016/02_w08/1082508/sweet---event-viewer-.JPG" /></a><br />
Im going to nuke and install Win 7 over the weekend and see how I get on. <br />
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Anyone want give their opinion if its Win 10 .... HW or SW etc .....<br />
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sweet---event-viewer-.JPG

PC has both Win 10 and 7 options DVDs supplied . Customer wanted Win 10 :-( 

Anyways .... 

It can take ages to boot.  Some times have to boot and then then hard power off and it boots every second time.  
Has to be hard powered off sometimes 
Installed Chrome and it hangs / uninstalled and reinstalled - its still not right. 

All HP updates installed 

The customer is tech savvy and has given me eventvwr errors 
These errors coincide with the boot problem 



Im going to nuke and install Win 7 over the weekend and see how I get on. 

Anyone want give their opinion if its Win 10 .... HW or SW etc .....

Win 10 New HP PC - eventvwr error / ages to boot / hangs in windows etc

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