The issue with having a bunch of freeloaders starting up on Win7's back is not a startup issue, it is the interference they cause with performance. I suggested establishing a Clean Boot because it works for resolving many performance problems and not to give you a faster boot.
Other optimizations and steps which resolve most problems are in Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7
As written before:
For startup I have BitDefender Total Security and my Logitech driver for my G15 keyboard and MSI Afterburner loaded. That's it.
I will not call that "a bunch of freeloaders".
Again, when selecting Hibernation, the screen goes black after 2-3 seconds, and then nothing seems to happen for the next 25-60 seconds (it varys from time to time), and then about 4 seconds with SSD-activity. then power off.
Found a solution ... I don't use hibernation any more. Shut down and Boot time is, at my PC, much faster :)
Hibernation should work perfectly in Win7, so something is interfering with it. You might try turning off everything at startup long enough to see if one of those is the cause.
Had you continued to work with us I would have also suggested Gathering a Startup, Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernate, or Reboot Trace - Windows 7 Forums.
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