Thread: Required APPS SLOW booting up?

Does it say by how much the above apps are hogging your memory?

I have 8gb ram I didn't check how much it's hogging but it takes 5 min according to solution see top page boot1 attachment. it's much slower then windows 7

Yes but 5 minutes to do what exactly? Does your machine take 5 minutes to boot up? If it did take 5 minutes you would probably find the problem lay in an other area that the ones highlighted above. I find this strange re memory hogging as Windows 8s memory use is normally far better than windows 7.
If your running an app to measure something or a benchmark please ensure it is windows 8 compatible otherwise misinformation will result.

Did you try running the above app due to some issue or other?

Test your boot time with this and post the result:

BootRacer - Test your Windows boot speed

Here is mine for comparison.

My times are much higher

Wow!...

Ok, right click on the task bar and choose the Task manager from the revealed menu. Click on the Start up tab and then take a screen shot of what is included. Here's mine for comparison:

All I have at startup is Avast antivirus.

The only thing I can think of, not being familiar with the Black Viper guide, is an error has cropped up and something has either been removed or turned off/turned on. Have you checked the event viewer?
It might serve you well to refresh the install and start again. To do this you need to open the charms by moving the cursor to top or bottom right hand corners and clicking on settings. Then click 'change pc settings' followed by 'General'. Scroll down and you'll find various options to either re-install or just refresh the pc.

What will the refresh do? Will I lose anything? What if I do reinstall then I think I will lose everything correct? Thanks