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Today I have purchased HP ENVY 4 1025TX. It has 3rd Generation Intel i5 processor, 4 gb RAM, 2 gb graphics, windows 7 home basic, 500 gb hard disk. But when I start it, it takes 60-70 seconds to finally come on home screen. It has 150gb of 'C' drive in which 118 gb is free. And after all when I play games on it black borders come on screen. Please help me!

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Could you take a photo of the black borders? Maybe it's just some aspect ratio correction, but could be some other issue as well. Are all drivers properly installed (check Device Manager to see whether there are any issues). Also consider asking this on superuser.com - you might get faster help there, as your problem isn't really specific to a single game. – Mario Dec 29 '12 at 17:19
If you're talking about a slow PC startup time, your question should be migrated to superuser.com, since that's not gaming related. Also, has it been like this ever since you have it or did this change only recently? And the part about black borders is a separate question, although as Mario suggests that's probably due to aspect ratio or graphics driver setting – Zommuter Dec 29 '12 at 17:39

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Black Borders are due to the game resolution being different and rather than stretching or distorting the game as some machines do, Windows 7 will add black borders to the screen. Happens on my widescreen laptop a great deal.

As far as the slow boot time, that's probably bloatware. It's a very common thing with major OEMs.

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Additionally there may be a default setting which causes non-native resolutions to remain unscaled, e.g. a 1280×720 resolution would be surrounded by black borders on all four sides on a 1920 × 1080 screen. This may either be a GPU driver or a monitor setting. – Zommuter Dec 30 '12 at 15:04

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