I installed the windows8 pro over win7. Suddenly, the boot now takes 5mins to complete. The boot up was only 10 seconds up to today, making me suspect a corrupt file. If I reinstall windows8 upgrade over itself, will I lose all of my settings?

I installed the windows8 pro over win7. Suddenly, the boot now takes 5mins to complete. The boot up was only 10 seconds up to today, making me suspect a corrupt file. If I reinstall windows8 upgrade over itself, will I lose all of my settings?

I don't know if you can even do that. What you probably have to do is roll back to Windows 7 with the install disk and then upgrade again.

 

I am trying to upgrade my wife's laptop and it never completes. After doing some research it looks like a driver issue. Maybe that could be the problem. Have you tried uninstalling drivers and letting Windows 8 re-install them?

Thanks for your reply. After I installed windows8 pro upgrade the boot took only about 15 seconds to boot up. I've not added anything else after configuring email, which works fine and the bootup remained the same time. This continued for several days. Suddenly, it started playing up taking up to 15 mins to complete. I did notice that, although the spinning wheel was working, the hard drive light showed that there was no apparent activity for about 5 minutes. The light then showed activity and the win 8 logon screen was displayed. However, after entering the login info it took about a minute to log on until the win 8 desktop showed. I thought that maybe the drive was faulty, but trying to use chkdsk from the command prompt wouldn't work, asking for elevated permission whatever that meant. It MAY not have said permission but another similar word. I have always been able to reinstall windows 7 over itself and that cured my problems. Apparently, from what you say, this probably may not be possible with win 8!!! By the way my win 8 disk is the full retail version.

Bad design by Microsoft again??

Anyone maybe point me to the problem I would be VERY grateful

You could try an install on top of the current install. It sure wouldn't hurt. Only thing it would do if it can't be done is fail.

 

Have you connected any other drives? My install will slow on boot if I leave the USB storage drive turned on.

I Initially loved Windows 8, and toldeveryone how great it was. Then I noticed that complete programs had been deleted, apparently by Win 8 install. Today I cannot access Windows 8, and the last launch required about 5 minutes. Had to use google to access the Forum. Any Ideas about problems with Win 8 install and delete./GeneY

Is this an upgrade? From everything I'm seeing the problem is common, slow boot after a while, on most upgrades. Clean install however doesn't slow down. My boot time is less than a minute. Maybe you want to try a clean install.