10-15Minutes Boot Loading Time Windows 7 32Bit (cluberti please help)

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  1. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 32bit Starter
       #1

    10-15Minutes Boot Loading Time Windows 7 32Bit (cluberti please help)


    Hello cluberti,
    Hope you are fine.
    I have had this laptop for a while now and recently it has started to act very weirdly it takes ages to start up. At least about 15 minutes to start up. I have tried everything and it still loads very slowly.

    So after going back and fourth I found out the Msft performance tools and did some scan and now I got tons of data and I have tried to analyze it but no luck.

    I thought it was my "audio card" so I disabled it and it is still loading very slow.

    Would you be kind enough to have a look at my ETL/XML file and help me out?

    I asked you for help because I found that you helped another user with similar issue.

    Thanks
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  2. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    LOL - you did get my attention :). If you post your ETL file (please zip it up with 7zip first) to one of the file sharing sites in the tutorial, I will of course take a look.
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  3. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #3

    You could try Soluto - it will tell you exactly which process takes how long during boot.
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  4. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 32bit Starter
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thank you everyone for help.
    Here is the ETL file....

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25274489/boot.zip
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  5. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #5

    OK, this is interesting. Has this machine had group or local policies applied? Is this machine a part of a domain, or not? The reason I ask is that the bulk of the time in this trace for the delay is Windows writing to the event log, starting at approximately the same time the audio service starts. 99% of the writes to the event log are to the security event log, and the other is to the diag log file (expected). The Audio service starts, and when the Group Policy client service starts, the writes to the system event log increase in earnest to the point that they peg the hard disk at 100%. Once these writes go back to "normal", the system picks up again and seems to run normally.

    Hence my ask - is there a group policy or local policy being applied that would change or affect the security or security monitoring on the system? Because that's what is causing this delay.
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  6. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 32bit Starter
    Thread Starter
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    Dear Cluberti,
    This laptop, I use at home and every now and then at Starbucks. It was working fine days ago and all of sudden this whole thing started.

    There should be no group policy or local policy, I did install McAfee however I stopped the services that started with windows by McAfee.

    Not that I love McAfee because I use Ubuntu on my other laptop, I just have this few years deal with McAfee so I thought I will install it rather than nothing..
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  7.    #7

    MucAfee is one of the worst infections a computer can have. I wouldn't even bother trying to salvage an installation Muc'd by it, but would wipe the HD to clean reinstall: Reinstalling Windows 7

    At the bare minimum use whatever tool is required now to remove the Muc, or try reimaging or restoring to before you installed it.

    Carl can likely help you determine if it applied group policy while it was running aMuc.
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  8. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 32bit Starter
    Thread Starter
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    Hi Greg,
    Thanks for feedback, will wait what Carl has to say as well
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  9. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #9

    As I have mentioned before (and I will reiterate again for clarity), stopping services for antivirus applications does not unload their filter drivers, and as such isn't a good troubleshooting step. However, in this case I have no direct proof antivirus plays a big role, although given this slowdown is 100% disk related, it stands to reason it's partially culpable. The big area of concern is why the group policy client takes 100+ seconds to parse, and why the system is writing so feverishly to the security log (and for so long as well).

    When did you install McAfee onto this system, specifically?
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  10. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 32bit Starter
    Thread Starter
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    I installed a while back I really dont remember the date I would say 2-3 weeks?
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