In windows 8 everything worked pretty great, but now after doing a clean and fresh install of 8.1 pro it can sometimes take up to 30 seconds to access any of my external usb or esata hard drives. This never ever happened on windows 8. It doesn't always happen but it happened enough for me to make this thread. I tried changing ownership and security policies to my account just to make sure, and i tried reinstalling the drivers for the drives too and it still does this! Can anyone help me out here?
Also my personalization tab in the full screen settings is not there and thus i cannot customize my start menu in pretty much any single way? I never had it from the start but read and saw that it is indeed supposed to be there.